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Labour History Review | Most Read ‘Uncomradely and Un-communist’: Breakdown in the Communist Anglosphere? The Communist Party of Great Britain and Communist Party of Australia Debate, 1947–1948 by @gregorybillam.bsky.social. ➡️Read it online: bit.ly/LHR-Billam @sslh.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social
Did you know that Sheffield was at the forefront of Britain's heavy spring trade for much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Read Quentin Outram's review of John Austin’s The Sheffield Heavy Spring Trade: 1829-2025 here: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/30/b...
Book review: Sheffield and the heavy spring tradeQuentin Outram reviews John Austin’s The Sheffield Heavy Spring Trade: 1829-2025. Sheffield, 2026, pp. 192, p/b. ISBN 978 10369 32701. Heavy springs are the springs you used to find and still…sslh.org.uk
A new biography of Manchester Irishwoman and trade union organiser, Mary Quaile, will be launched on Saturday 8th August in Manchester. Find out more: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/30/b...
Book launch: Mary Quaile, Manchester trade union organiserA new biography of Manchester Irishwoman and trade union organiser, Mary Quaile, will be launched on Saturday 8th August in Manchester. Bernadette Hyland and Michael Herbert’s new book: ̵…sslh.org.ukPlus book reviews from Stefan Kesting, Martin Wright, Sonny Angus, Joe Davey, Wayne Dooling, Mike Mecham, Stephen Hopkins, Tom Buchanan, Stefan Berger, and Dave Lyddon. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Book Reviews | Labour History ReviewView all available purchase options and get full access to this article.www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukAd Knotter, ‘Many Tears Were Shed’: Workplace Occupations, Emotions, and the Moral Economy of the Fight against Redundancies in the Netherlands, 1972–2000’. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
‘Many Tears Were Shed’: Workplace Occupations, Emotions, and the Moral Economy of the Fight against Redundancies in the Netherlands, 1972–2000 | Labour History ReviewIn the last thirty years of the twentieth century, workplace occupation belonged to the standard repertoire of workers’ and trade union activism in the Netherlands. Between 1972 and 2000, 177 of them can be identified. In this article, I focus on the ...www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukKevin Morgan, 'Out of the Shadow of Bevin and Mann: A.A. Purcell and the General Strike that Did Not Happen’. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Out of the Shadow of Bevin and Mann: A.A. Purcell and the General Strike that Did Not Happen | Labour History ReviewIn the fifteen years before the British General Strike of 1926, the idea of a general strike had become familiar in labour movement circles. The connection between these earlier uses of the concept and the solidarity action of 1926 have not been closely ...www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukIn this issue: Lewis James Willcox, ‘Class, Community, and the Labour Unrest in Rural Scotland: Establishing the Scottish Farm Servants’ Union.' www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Class, Community, and the Labour Unrest in Rural Scotland: Establishing the Scottish Farm Servants’ Union | Labour History ReviewIn 1912, amidst wider currents of industrial unrest throughout the country, a meeting in the Aberdeenshire market town of Turriff resulted in the formation of the Scottish Farm Servants Union. Due to a range of factors, agricultural unions were ...www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukSSLH E.C members, Dave Lyddon and Quentin Outram are currently updating a HSIR bibliography on the 1926 General Strike. Read more abour their expanded version: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/14/u...
Update: Bibliography on the 1926 General StrikeTo mark the one hundredth anniversary of the 1926 General Strike and mining lockout, Dave Lyddon and Quentin Outram are revising the Historical Studies in Industrial Relations (HSIR) bibliography o…sslh.org.ukA new issue of the Society's journal, Labour History Review, is available now. sslh.org.uk/2026/07/14/l...
Labour History Review Volume 91 (2026), issue 2Labour History Review Volume 91 (2026), Issue 2 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats. In this issue . . . Lewis James Willcox, ‘Class, Community, a…sslh.org.ukDigitised! Some of the earliest records of UK trade unionism, containing a wealth of information for labour, social, economic, political & family history 700+ Fortnightly Returns from the Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasons online (& more to come) cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Don't forget our next online event is this Saturday! Join us for '“Blaring defiant tunes”: relief, resilience and jazz' with a great line up of talks from Sir Deian Hopkin, Sue Bowyer and Dr Steve Thompson. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1926-and-c...
I have a new article (open access!) published online in Contemporary British History covering the Communist Party Historians' Group and the national-radical tradition. So, please download! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Bringing history to the people’: the Communist Party Historians’ Group and the national-radical tradition, 1946–1956The Communist Party Historians’ Group produced many of the most influential historians of the twentieth century shaping the development of social history and wider British historiography into the p...www.tandfonline.comWhat a fantastic conference, and we were delighted to support it. If you were unable to attend, you can catch up below!
Modern Records Centre, University of WarwickCoal conference catch-up ⛏️ On 18 June we welcomed 80+ people to 'Blood is the price of coal' - a conference on coal communities, health and welfare Recordings of 10 talks, conference photos and more are now available online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #histmed #MiningHistory #envhist
The People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Find out more and book your place here: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/02/o...
On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity (Guided Tours)The People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Marking …sslh.org.ukPolyp and Madeleine Goodall are looking for support and your involvement to crowdfund their latest project focusing on 'free-thinking humanists'. Find out more: sslh.org.uk/2026/06/16/l...
Loose Cannons: a graphic tale of forgotten humanistsA new graphic novel running through the lives and ideas of humanists, both well known and unjustly forgotten, has just been announced. Polyp, COURAGE [click to enlarge] Paul Fitzgerald (Polyp), a M…sslh.org.ukThe People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Find out more and book your place here: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/02/o...
On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity (Guided Tours)The People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Marking …sslh.org.uk