Want to hear more about some of the many alternative local newspapers (such as LOP) that sprang up around the UK in the 1970s and 1980s? If so, this online event might just be for you. Thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @cperguom.bsky.social, among others.

Journalists in peril the world over, warns NUJ - report on @nujofficial.bsky.social motion at the @tuc.org.uk from today's @mstaronline.bsky.social ⬇️

Palestine: At least 221 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since the start of the conflict. Latest figure follows death of photojournalist Rasmi Jihad Salem www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...

Journalists in peril the world over, warns NUJ - report on @nujofficial.bsky.social motion at the @tuc.org.uk from today's @mstaronline.bsky.social ⬇️

The NUJ being in the news recently seems reason enough to dig out some Leeds Other Paper coverage of a @nujofficial.bsky.social protest outside the old Yorkshire Post building back in the eighties - there's even a rare sighting of LOP's own banner.

Top Withens, near Haworth, photo by Fay Godwin, 1931-2005 (British Museum).

2/ ... and for modernists (Bourne Hall, Fulwell Cross, Portsmouth and Peckham):

1/ It's #LiteracyDay. Libraries have offered shelter and succour to so many - a haven and a portal. Here's a random collection of images to remind ourselves how once they were valued (Gainsborough, Gloucester, Hendon and Barrow) ...

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

If only there had been some clue that he was like this.

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

I'm shocked - shocked! Today's @theguardian.com ⬇️

I'm shocked - shocked! Today's @theguardian.com ⬇️

Powerful video of Leeds vigil for journalists killed in Gaza, organised by my local @nujofficial.bsky.social branch. Proud to be a member of this union. #StopKillingJournalists

The NUJ decries substantial job cuts announced by Reach plc today. The proposed restructure of editorial puts 600 journalists at risk and threatens 321 jobs, with the expectation that 135 new positions will be created. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Powerful video of Leeds vigil for journalists killed in Gaza, organised by my local @nujofficial.bsky.social branch. Proud to be a member of this union. #StopKillingJournalists

"That's me, that is."

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The schoolchildren's strikes of 1911 were immortalised in a great play by Billy Colville and Dave Marson, put on at the Half Moon Theatre in East London in 1973: Fall In And Follow Me. Dave was a Hull docker who researched the strikes after spotting reference to them in an old press cutting.

The schoolchildren's strikes of 1911 were immortalised in a great play by Billy Colville and Dave Marson, put on at the Half Moon Theatre in East London in 1973: Fall In And Follow Me. Dave was a Hull docker who researched the strikes after spotting reference to them in an old press cutting.

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A UK-wide wave of strikes by schoolchildren started on this day 1911. It began when pupils in Llanelli, Wales walked out in sympathy with a boy disciplined by a deputy headmaster. Walkouts spread to at least 62 towns and cities. Came at time of widespread industrial unrest.

Fargate, Sheffield, painting by George Cunningham, b.1924.

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

So many names... #StopKillingJournalists vimeo.com/1115549107?f...

So many names... #StopKillingJournalists vimeo.com/1115549107?f...

The legends who fed the @thesquareball.net charity walkers this summer have had their van nicked from outside their house. Keep your eyes out please, it's incredibly distinctive and obviously means the world to them. Share far and wide too. #lufc

And here's the write-up on the website of our local @nujofficial.bsky.social branch ⬇️

Good to see coverage in print edition of today's @mstaronline.bsky.social #StopKillingJournalists

Ukraine: three newspaper buildings hit by Russian drones but journalists resolve to continue working. The NUJ joins the International Federation of Journalists and National Union of Journalists of Ukraine in standing in solidarity with our colleagues www.nuj.org.uk/resource/ukr...

Good to see coverage in print edition of today's @mstaronline.bsky.social #StopKillingJournalists

Impressive turnout at the @nujofficial.bsky.social vigil in Leeds tonight in remembrance of journalists killed in Gaza. #StopKillingJournalists

Just leaving #Leeds and an event I really wish hadn't had to happen. The local branch of my union @nujofficial.bsky.social were marking the deaths of so many #journalists and media workers trying to report what is happening in #Gaza. A sombre occasion.

Impressive turnout at the @nujofficial.bsky.social vigil in Leeds tonight in remembrance of journalists killed in Gaza. #StopKillingJournalists

Vigil in Leeds 5.30pm today - #StopKillingJournalists

We’ve joined other media outlets worldwide to condemn the killing of journalists in #Gaza. And we call on the Israeli authorities to allow independent access for international press into Gaza immediately: rsf.org/en/rsf-and-a... #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza @rsf.org

Sobering to see names of all the media workers killed in Gaza

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

#Palestine 🇵🇸: Today, over 270 media take protest over the killing of #journalists in #Gaza. Many of our affiliates have also joined the global call. Speak out! Journalists cannot be silenced. #ProtectJournalistsinGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza www.ifj.org/media-centre...

The Guardian: The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Everyday life in Scarborough.

Over the last two days, NUJ members across the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe organised further solidarity action to commemorate colleagues killed in Gaza and to highlight the vital importance of press freedom. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Looking forward to this online event in September, thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social among others. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary, said: “This must become a catalyst for a renewed global campaign to end the senseless bloodshed in Gaza through an immediate ceasefire and the opening up of the region to international journalists and media organisations."