Terry Dunne

Chartist land plan 1845 - 1850 - chartist ancestors This page introduces the Chartist Land Plan, which aimed to resettle industrial workers on smallholdings

The Chartist Co-operative Land Society was formed #OnThisDay 19 May 1845. It attracted huge support but was never successful in its aim to settle large numbers of workers on self-sufficient smallholdings
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-lan...

Venus in Chains: Visualizing the Enslaved Cosmos in Medieval Islamic Astrology - Ajam Media Collective Why were planets represented as enslaved people in Islamic art? Ava Hess analyses images of the planet Venus in chains to explore how and why the labor of the unfree was connected to astrological mean...

Wild. I knew a lot of this and still…

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Open Access to the articles by Michael Burawoy (1947 - 2025) published in Current Sociology. Join us in commemorating Michael's legacy:

▪️ Facing an unequal world journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (2014)

Like many, I’m shocked and saddened to hear of the untimely death of Michael Burawoy. My well thumbed copy of Manufacturing Consent is still on my bookshelf, much referred to when writing my own book on working time in software. Condolences to his family and friends.

Great speakers and themes at this one-day symposium on ‘the history and legacy of the miners’ strike of 1984/5’. Attendance is free, but please register.
sslh.org.uk/2025/01/31/s...

Great piece of #NatureWritting

Oxfam International's 20 January 2025 'Takers Not Makers' report is attracting an 'interesting' range of headlines across media and the press. The report itself can be accessed here: www.oxfam.org/en/research/...

Labour & Empire keynote: Frederick Cooper "Colonization, Decolonization, and Labor"

Online seminar: Labour & Empire Working Group of the European Labour History Network. Dr Frederick Cooper on “Decolonization, and Labour” plus 45-minute discussion. Wednesday 15 January, 4pm GMT. Register online www.eventbrite.com/e/labour-emp...

Front cover of 'The Land Worker', February 1934. It includes an illustration of a tractor pulling a plough up a furrowed field. Coins are are on the tractor and plough instead of wheels. The image is captioned 'To speed the plough - raise the wages'.

"To speed the plough... raise the wages"

A 'Land Worker' front cover to mark #PloughMonday

Find out more about working conditions of agricultural workers through online editions of the National Union of Agricultural Workers journal, 1919-1950, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

A particularly colourful example from 1981 - "Luis Against the Queen of England", in which a Brazilian revolutionary teams up with the IRA, a retired British officer and Colonel Gadaffi to kidnap the Queen from her yacht and demand the reunification of Ireland.

249 years ago today — January 10, 1776 —#ThomasPaine’s published #CommonSense, which turned America’s colonial rebellion into a revolution for independence and the making of a democratic republic! (Next year the 250th… 🇺🇸)

The Story of the Aurochs Is More Complicated Than We Thought New research helps us understand how cattle spread across the world.

I have found aurochs fascinating ever since I studied about them in undergrad archaeology courses. The last auroch died in Poland in 1627. I am following the 'de-extinction' Taurus breeding program in Europe with great interest. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whe... #foodhistory #domestication

Class Encounters: Feargus O’Connor, Chartist leader In the sixth of our series on meetings with figures from labour history, Vic Clarke encounters the Chartist leader, MP and newspaper proprietor Feargus O’Connor. Feargus O’Connor, from the&nb…

Continuing our series of #ClassEncounters with figures from #LabourHistory @vjctorianist.bsky.social meets the Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor
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In case anyone's interested, one of the things I'll be working on over the next few months is a short, slightly strange little book about this guy, a Black man posing as a South Asian man elected to the Derry Town Council in 1876: www.dib.ie/biography/de...

In the first of our series of #ClassEncounters with figures from #LabourHistory, Joe Stanley meets John Auty, paymaster general of the Friendly Society of Coal Miners sslh.org.uk/2024/12/12/c...

Covers of the books Arctic Ireland, about the Famine of 1741, and A Line in the Sand, about Anglo-French inter-imperialist competition in the Middle East.

This morning’s reading, just got to the 1920 Iraqi revolt. The 1741 famine, subject of the other book, is fascinating in that it has such a small presence in social memory compared to that of the 1840s.

Radical Histories - Part II Join the conversation

Looking for radical histories on Bluesky?

We've made a two Starter Packs of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for.

Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added. 🗃️

Here's Part II: go.bsky.app/9N31SS8

A fascinating story of the power of rent strikes.

A tóchar - a ancient pathway through the bog - often made with wood sourced from local trees 👇 via @cmount1.bsky.social #tócharStories

Our first Radical Histories Starter Pack is now full! So many brilliant researchers, projects and organisations here - and so many more who haven't yet joined Bluesky or aren't yet on this list.

We will be making a Part II, so please just shout if you'd like to be added.

Please add me - researching rural labour & agrarian movements in Ireland 1760s to 1920s.

John Brown, who died 165 years ago, is trending. Back in the day he was also trending in Europe. Radicals and liberals embraced Brown as a champion of republicanism, hoping that his death would rekindle the flames of revolution in Europe. Victor Hugo's engraving is one famous example. /1

Gave a talk on Thursday the 28th of November about the Great Famine in Ballyfin in the western part of Laois. Part of a project supported by the Laois Heritage Office and Creative Ireland wherein I am seeing what documentary evidence there is relating to stories passed down in local social memory.

Continuing introduction, in 2024 I was Historian-in-Residence with Clare Library Services (Clare is a county on Ireland’s west coast) which culminated with a week of events & the launch of the below documentary film.

Sunday Independent,
26 Oct. 1913

Despite warnings from bird flu experts, it's business as usual in California dairy country New research and discussions with dairy farmers in the Central Valley suggests H5N1 bird flu is more widespread among people than the reported numbers indicate.

"It's an illness that they know the cows have, and many cows have died but the boss cared about the cows, not the workers," Ibanez told the Times. "They never told them they have to go to the doctor to get a check-up."

www.latimes.com/environment/...

Gave a talk on Thursday the 28th of November about the Great Famine in Ballyfin in the western part of Laois. Part of a project supported by the Laois Heritage Office and Creative Ireland wherein I am seeing what documentary evidence there is relating to stories passed down in local social memory.

een koeiewachter bij Klein Valkenisse, rond 1920