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Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
Today it’s No. 12
Recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day Mon-Fr
@strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social
This is such an impressive and valuable collection of material. So easy to go down the rabbit hole and spend many hours engrossed in this.
30.01.2026 11:56 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Well, today we’ve reached Book No. 10 of my recommended classic texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day Mon-Fri @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
30.01.2026 11:22 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to Bowen Ran, PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam, on publishing ‘E. P. Thompson’s Historiographic Agency in Beyond the Frontier’ in Historia: Philosophy & Theory, 1, 72-79. We were delighted to be able to support his research with a research bursary
doi.org/10.46991/hpt...
Here's me speaking about the Blair era at the University of Bristol today... Coming to York, Oxford and London for New Labour book launches soon!
29.01.2026 14:58 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0On my way to London to deliver this paper. It's possible to watch online if you're interested.
29.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Includes Labour History Review
29.01.2026 12:09 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Today it’s Book No. 9 of my recommended classic texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day Mon-Fri @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social
29.01.2026 11:17 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!
Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
Have you seen the new updated London Clarion Cycle Club website? We think you’ll like it! Take a look 👀 www.londonclarion.org.uk
28.01.2026 19:08 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Save the date! Join us for an online archival workshop with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social to explore the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...
28.01.2026 14:03 — 👍 21 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2
#C19th #Chartism
If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries of up to £500 to students on BA and Taught Masters programmes to support archival, library and online research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history topic
sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries for up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers (MA and doctoral) and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history
sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support for conferences and public events with a focus on labour history, broadly defined. Applications, for a maximum of £850 per event, are welcome at any time of year.
sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries of up to £500 to students on BA and Taught Masters programmes to support archival, library and online research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history topic
sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries for up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers (MA and doctoral) and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history
sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support for conferences and public events with a focus on labour history, broadly defined. Applications, for a maximum of £850 per event, are welcome at any time of year.
sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
An excellent new resource from @uoscollections.bsky.social!
We're looking forward to exploring the catalogue and developing links between the Arthur Scargill Archive and the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers archives (full NUM catalogue available in the next couple of months!)
🚨NEWLY CATALOGUED COLLECTION🚨
We are delighted to announce that after a 2-year project, the Arthur Scargill Archive is now available for research in our public reading room!🎉
More info➡️ tinyurl.com/cz3s5dxk
Browse the catalogue➡️ tinyurl.com/vn4xvdd6
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
Stack of the book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, edited by Daniel Frost and Evan Smith
To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Residency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Book No. 6
Recommended classic texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day
@strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social
View of a desk showing a box with posters and notices in, kept flat by a snake weight. The document at the top of the pile is a map of Britain showing the deployment of pickets. Another small pile of notices is upside down next to the box. The top one has four big, dry lumps of brittle Blu Tack pressed into the back.
Work with the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers continues...
Today our project archivist has been unrolling National Control Room notices which last saw daylight 41 years ago (and easing off the brittle remains of the Blu Tack)
mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/NUM/...
Book No. 5
Recommended classic texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day
@strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social
Recommended classic texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain, in this 100th anniversary year.
Book no. 3 - one book per day
@strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @phm.org.uk @keithbeard.bsky.social
Call for Papers #CfP: General Strike Exploration Day, Manchester, 9 May 2026.
Short papers and presentations from academics, trade unionists, heritage professionals, archivists and independent researchers welcome.
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/16/c...
Northern History, 1-13 Check far updates MALCOLM CHASE: A ROUNDTABLE TRiBUTE MATTHEW ROBERTS Sheffield Hallam University RoBERT POoLe University of Lancashire KATRINA NAVICKAS C University of Hertfordshire This paper brings together the reflections by three historians who knew Malcolm Chase, presented at the Northern History memorial conference in Leeds on 29 November 2024. It shows how integral Malcolm Chase's work was to nineteenth- century political and labour history of Britain. It explains his impact and legacy on the study of history, especially in and of northern England, and ends with a call for more work on regional and working-class history Keywords: labour history; Chartism; Malcolm Chase; northern history
Our roundtable tribute to Malcolm Chase is now published in Northern History.
@northernhistory.bsky.social
(Open access version will be available soon).
Call for Papers #CfP: General Strike Exploration Day, Manchester, 9 May 2026.
Short papers and presentations from academics, trade unionists, heritage professionals, archivists and independent researchers welcome.
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/16/c...
Free online talk
@womenshistnet.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @ukahn.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
#HistNursing #womenshistory #feminism
