Call for Papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class and Kinship 1800-present, 3 & 4 September 2026 2 day conference @newcastleuni.bsky.social Welcoming abstracts and proposals [email protected] caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

The fate of Glasgow's last city centre arts production building is crucial to the city and to the role of art in it. Eviction could happen from this Friday. Please sign the petition www.change.org/p/save-trong... Join the protest on Friday. Write to your MSP, MP, councillors. Resist!

@newcastleuni.bsky.social will be hosting the British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research conference on 7-8 May. Tickets (no charge) for the event go live today at 9am. We have an excellent programme of speakers. Supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk @sslh.bsky.social @ialhi.bsky.social

📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026. Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026. caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

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Still space for this next Tuesday!

A new article from me about writing groups, class, culture and radical adult education in Glasgow in the 1980s and 1990s Glasgow: scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...

The Workers' Stories Project published 55 stories from Scottish workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.

Iron Ladies is a new film about the women who led the 1984-5 miners’ strike in coalfield communities. It’s being shown at the MacRobert in Stirling on Friday. I’ll be hosting a Q and A after with Linda Erskine from Fife who features in the documentary. ⬇️ www.macrobertartscentre.org/shows/736027...

Don't miss this on Wednesday at 12 in Portobello Town Hall, Palestinian journalists Ahmed Alnaouq and Eman Alhaj Ali relfect on ten years of writing. Please help share this rare chance to hear directly from Gazan writers: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Holding important meetings, lamenting bad things, urging people to do good things. The same routine for 20 months. And all the while the arms exports continue, the surveillance flights continue, trade and investment continues, normal diplomatic relations continue. Complicity in genocide continues.

Loved everything about being part of delivering this series of workshops on oral history, digitisation and cataloguing at Glasgow Zine Library. Thank you to @deindustrialpol.bsky.social for the funding which made them possible and to everyone who came along

'This government needs to stop listening to the empty threats of landlords and legislate to protect those who have been most impacted by decades of mismanaged housing policy' 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/poli...

For our project @caring-communities.bsky.social we're undertaking oral history interviews about children's social care with care-experienced people, their descendants and care workers. If you'd like to take part or hear more, please get in touch! caringcommunities.co.uk

Israel is starving Palestinians. BDS calls on all supporters to immediately escalate peaceful disruption and other forms of BDS pressure on states and the UN to force Israel to end the genocide and the siege of Gaza now. If not now, when?

MBDA UK Ltd., is a partner of University of Glasgow. Israeli airstrikes in Gaza using GBU-39 bombs made with MBDA components, killed Palestinian civilians, including 34 people in Al-Buraq school Nov 10, 2023.

As the university's management escalates by pressing ahead with up to 38 compulsory redundancies, after losing over 260 of our colleagues through voluntary severance, our membership’s clear message remains: STOP this. Members are upset angry and aghast by the behaviour of university management.