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Professor Peter Gurney delivers the John Halstead Memorial Lecture on the “Chartist Revolution” at the John Rylands Library in Manchester today.

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Remembering Coal. One-day event at the University of Birmingham next Monday (16 June). Details… sslh.org.uk/2025/06/11/r...

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Ben Howarth of Liverpool John Moores University is researching anti-fascist mobilisation in 1930s Merseyside for his MA. We gave him a bursary to visit The National Archives in search papers relating to the CPGB and fascist leader Oswald Mosley. sslh.org.uk/2025/06/10/b...

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OF INTEREST TO CHARTISTS! Come Monday, I will be starting a funded project with the Co-operative Heritage Trust archive to create a research resource highlighting points of interaction between Chartism and co-operation. More details below: dnhamiltonblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/a...

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Less than a month to go until the the launch event 'At the Margins of Capitalism: Useful Histories at the Co-op Archive' on 1stJuly. If you are interested in food production and alternatives to capitalism, join us for conversation and archival exploration. tinyurl.com/8y34k69n

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My latest item on the National Library of Wales blog on the Griff Jones Papers www.library.wales/news/article...

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Interesting @gftu.org.uk and Marx Memorial Library session on the Wapping Dispute & Printworker Organisation. Thursday 12 June. Hybrid in person (at MML) and online event. Details: www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/50

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Our jam-packed and very exciting programme is now available on our webpage here ✨ We're hugely grateful to all the excellent speakers who submitted proposals and have agreed to be part of this event, which has been long in the making but is now only a month away! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

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A new Labour Government faces ‘many difficulties’. sslh.org.uk/2025/06/01/m...

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"For the advancement of West Indian Labour in London" On 23 May 1948, a month before the Empire Windrush docked, the London branch of the Caribbean Labour Congress held an inaugural meeting It was chaired by the future Prime Minister of Guyana, LFS Burnham wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Prof Peter Gurney on ‘The Chartist Revolution’, Saturday 14 June, Manchester. Reserve your ticket… www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-halst...

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Michael ‘Mick’ McGahey was a miners’ leader and Communist who was formative to achieving a Scottish Parliament. Tonight his contribution was marked by the exhibition of a bust at Holyrood and an exhibition of his books and memorabilia. Well done to Richard Leonard and his team.

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This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...

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#Skystorians! Join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social‬ team online on 19 June @12:30 to explore how historical researchers (across all periods) can make themselves more visible to UK policy makers. For details👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 🧵

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We supported Graham Skeate’s PhD work with a bursary. Find out about his research into the life, labour and spaces used by Glasgow’s Showpeople. sslh.org.uk/2025/05/22/g...

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Call for Papers: Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour. #CFP deadline 30 June 2025. sslh.org.uk/2025/05/20/c...

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The Society for the Study of Labour History helped fund Emily Thorpe's visits to research how professional photography presented and produced coalfield women during and after the miners’ strike of 1984-85? Here's her report back to us. sslh.org.uk/2025/05/20/e...

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The Chartist Revolution Book now for our annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture. Saturday 14 June, John Rylands Library, Manchester Free to attend - all welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-halst...

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London Metropolitan University is advertising for an archive or library professional to manage, maintain and develop the TUC Library Collections 📚📚📚. All details: iaetme.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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"Working people created their own organisations to assert their fundamental humanity by using collective power to elevate the value and conditions of their toil." This argument is at the heart of my new book: "No Power Greater: A History of Union Action in Australia".

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We remember with pride the defeat of fascism. To the trade unionists who resisted. We thank you. We remember you. We pledge to carry your fight forward.

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Bookings now open for the ‘Starmer Year One’ conference organised by the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University. The event takes place on 14 June 2025. sslh.org.uk/2025/05/06/c...

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Our roundtable brings together scholars, activists and archivists to think about the way people navigate bureaucracies and paperwork to shape their world. 19 May, Changing the Record, London WC1 www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @sslh.bsky.social

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In the aftermath of my sell-out talk at Royston Museum, here's more riotous behaviour? @balhnews.bsky.social @thebhp.bsky.social @bho.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social @hisjournalha.bsky.social @jennipinnock.com @roystoncrow.bsky.social grahampalmer.co.uk/revolting-ro...

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Catalogues to the archives of the Yorkshire Miners Association and several smaller organisations are now online thanks to the fantastic work of @mrcwarwick.bsky.social. Read all about it here… sslh.org.uk/2025/05/04/y...

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Catalogues to the archives of the Yorkshire Miners Association and several smaller organisations are now online thanks to the fantastic work of @mrcwarwick.bsky.social. Read all about it here… sslh.org.uk/2025/05/04/y...

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Today’s thing of beauty @sslh.bsky.social @markcrail.bsky.social

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How Britain celebrated its first May Day bank holiday ☔️ sslh.org.uk/2024/05/01/b...

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Labour History Review is celebrating its 90th issue. Join us and @livunipress.bsky.social in celebrating. Some highlights of the past decade are open access throughout May. sslh.org.uk/2025/05/01/l...

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#Chartism The 755th and final issue of the Northern Star appeared #OnThisDay 1 May 1852. After nearly fifteen years of weekly publication, it was subsequently renamed The Star of Freedom, under which title it lasted for precisely eight issues. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/five-things-...

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May Day 1919 protest meeting in Copenhagen to release syndicalist prisoners Andreas Fritzner, Poul Gissemann, Thøger Thøgersen. Fritzner’s daughter holding a sign: “we want dad out of prison”. Swedish anarchists Eva Lövgren and Emil Manus also attending.

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Walter Crane's "A Garland for May Day" (1895)

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Reserve your free ticket - places strictly limited. #Chartism #LabourHistory www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-halst...

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Reserve your free ticket - places strictly limited. #Chartism #LabourHistory www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-halst...

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Exciting news! I will be holding a Melbourne launch for my new history of the Australian union movement "No Power Greater: A History of Union Action" on Thursday 29 May, 6.30pm at Trades Hall, Carlton. RSVPs essential: lnkd.in/giZ2_Rrm

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Something for the weekend… sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/l...

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Have you got yours yet? sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/l...

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Have you got yours yet? sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/l...

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Historians of Labour and class on the Starmer Labour Government in Historical Perspective. Open access roundtable discussion in Labour History Review with Peter Gurney, Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social), Laurence Black (@lawrenceblack.bsky.social) Martin Wright sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/r...

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In Labour History Review * Keir Starmer's Labour Government in Historical Perspective * Limits to Solidarity: Trade Union Responses to European Workers in Britain, 1945–1948 * Workforce Disability and the 1949 ‘Ineffectives’ Strike in the London Docks. sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/l...

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Historians of Labour and class on the Starmer Labour Government in Historical Perspective. Open access roundtable discussion in Labour History Review with Peter Gurney, Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social), Laurence Black (@lawrenceblack.bsky.social) Martin Wright sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/r...

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In Labour History Review * Keir Starmer's Labour Government in Historical Perspective * Limits to Solidarity: Trade Union Responses to European Workers in Britain, 1945–1948 * Workforce Disability and the 1949 ‘Ineffectives’ Strike in the London Docks. sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/l...

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📣Join us on #InternationalWorkersDay for “Chopped Liver and Unions” by @bluefiretheatre.bsky.social. Discover the story of Sara Wesker, a trade union leader and source of inspiration! This critically acclaimed play has captivated audiences from New York to Edinburgh. Don’t miss it! bit.ly/3FGYIHO

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