🚨 NEW: Millions of people across England are already at high risk of flooding due to climate change. Yet the only service equipped to respond is being cut back. Political leaders must future-proof our communities, starting with real investment in the fire service.

📆THU 5 Mar 12.30-1.30pm EVENT: For the Dear Love of Comrades with Karen Karbiener on the life and death of radical suffragette Emily Wilding Davison and her admiration of poet Walt Whitman. With items on display from The Women's Library collections. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/for-the-de...

This week, a brand new cohort of Organising Officers began Academy 2! 🎉 They've been getting to know each other during their first sessions alongside learning how to build their portfolios, plan campaigns and organising for recruitment 👏 We wish you the best of luck on your Academy 2 journey! 💜

More than a decade of political decisions to strip away central government funding has pushed the fire service to breaking point. Cuts come at a cost - and that cost is public safety. Firefighters gathered in Westminster today with a clear message: stop cuts, invest in the fire service.

#OtD 25 Feb 1889 Russian communist metalworker, Gavril Ilyich Miasnikov, was born. A participant in both 1905 and 1917 Revolutions as well as the Bolshevik underground, he later became a fierce critic of Lenin and the party's actions once in power stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9731...

This post and related entry was based off the pamphlet by the always excellent @brisradhis.bsky.social. Give them a follow!

Our 'Coal Not Dole' exhibition is now on display at Bristol Archives until the end of February (Tuesday - Thursday).

We’re pleased to announce that renowned radical historian & BRHG inspiration, Marcus Rediker, is coming to Bristol for UK launch of new book: Freedom Ship - The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea. Tie in with Bristol Radical History Festival M Shed 24 April (6-7.30pm) #BRHF2026

Suffragist leader Lydia Becker was born on this day 1827.

Fighting Fit In The Factory Home Front health at the forefront in these striking #WW2 posters, featuring engineering workers striking heroic poses #histmed The wartime ephemera was preserved in the archives of the British Employers' Confederation (mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/BEC/...)

#OnThisDay in London trade union history, 1971: 250,000 march in a national protest march against the Tory government’s anti-trade union Industrial Relations Bill More on the struggle against the Industrial Relations Bill: wp.me/p74yfw-4C

WCML holds books and pamphlets with important insights into the last year of Malcolm X’s life, drawing on his notebooks from his visits abroad, and debates about his changing political views. #MalcolmX #OnThisDay #BlackHistory #LabourHistory #RadicalHistory #CivilRights #WorkingClassHistory #WCML

📣 New Podcast! "21 February 1965: Malcolm X assassinated" on @Spreaker #black #history #peoples

Latest @historyworkshop.org.uk with Indy Bhullar and Chelsea Collison (LSE), Peter Fisher and Jenny Yu (TUC Library) @londonmetuni.bsky.social and historian Laura Schwartz (Warwick Uni) discussing trade union history. @tuc.org.uk The Exhibition is open until 31 Jan. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

It’s the end of the week and we’ve now reached No. 25 of my recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary @strikemap.org @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @nwlh.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @redhen90.bsky.social

Out today, my new book about Margaret Bondfield, all-round ground-breaker and political pioneer is published by @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social and is available in both book and audio form. I am, obviously, very pleased about it!

Interesting article in Morning Star The forgotten radicalism of Sir Richard Acland by Mat Coward www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/forg...

Read about the Chatterton Massacre in the 50th edition of North West History Journal. See nwlh.org.uk

Read about the Chatterton Massacre in the 50th edition of North West History Journal. See nwlh.org.uk

2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the Lancashire weavers' uprisings and Chatterton Massacre. Find out more about the events local partners are facilitating, here: www.balh.org.uk/news-commemo... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

#OnThisDay in London radical history: Chartist socialist George Julian Harney born, Deptford, 1817. wp.me/p74yfw-Bn

So today we’ve reached No 22 of my 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 @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @nwlh.bsky.social

#OtD 17 Feb 1964 a national strike of sugar workers broke out in Guyana demanding union recognition. British firms used African workers to try to break the strike of the mostly Asian workers, which worsened racial tensions in the country. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8874...

Coal miners, Durham, 1935, photo by E.O. Hoppé (1878-1972).

#OtD 16 Feb 1924 200k dock workers in Britain walked out on strike. @UKLabour were in power for the first time and invoked emergency powers to crush the strike. Despite this, the workers held out and won pay increases stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8775...

Right now @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social beg the courts for more injunctions to ban effective protest and picketing, this time for persons unknown. Instead of resolving this dispute, they try to ban protest. Solidarity is not a crime. Follow: www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland... #StrikeMap

North West History Society. New issue 50th edition. Article by Richard J Holden and Richard W Hall on the Blackburn Weaving Industry #Blackburn

North West History Society. New issue 50th edition. Article by Richard J Holden and Richard W Hall on the Blackburn Weaving Industry #Blackburn

Here is Number 20 of my 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-Fri @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @nwlh.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social

North West History Society. To see how to buy the latest copy of our journal. (The 50th issue) go to nwlh.org.uk

”I’ve got a very clear message to @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social, stop running to the courts.” Fran Heathcote @pcsunion.bsky.social, sending solidarity to @unitetheunion.bsky.social bin strikers. Show this council you cannot ban solidarity. Standing with striking workers is not a crime. #StrikeMap

North West History Society. To see how to buy the latest copy of our journal. (The 50th issue) go to nwlh.org.uk

"I've got a message for Birmingham Council. Get back round the table. Talk to the bin workers." @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social , sending solidarity greetings to @unitetheunion.bsky.social brum bin strikers. Show this council you cannot ban solidarity #Birmingham #BirminghamBinStrike #BrumBinStrike

Here is my latest - No 18 - 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 @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @nwlh.bsky.social

#OtD 10 Feb 1921, Peter Kropotkin's funeral procession began in the city of Dmitrov, Russia. His body was transported by train to Moscow where thousands of anarchists marched for hours in the last public demonstration of anarchists in Russia for decades. shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

BREAKING NEWS 🚨| @rmtunion.bsky.social join the campaign for an #EmploymentRightsBill2. Join us in #London on 21 March for a campaign action rally: bit.ly/ERB2Rally #EmploymentRightsBill #ERB1 #ERB2 #EmploymentRights #Strikemap

Here we have Book No 17 of my 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 @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

For the latest book reviews of Works by Brian Groom Colin Dickinson, Conrad Bower Michael Herbert, David Camfield and many more go to nwlh.org.uk for how to purchase the latest copy of the North West History Journal 50th edition

For the latest book reviews of Works by Brian Groom Colin Dickinson, Conrad Bower Michael Herbert, David Camfield and many more go to nwlh.org.uk for how to purchase the latest copy of the North West History Journal 50th edition

#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...

I'll be talking about 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' at New Mills Local History Society, Derbyshire, at the Town Hall on Friday March 13th, 7.45pm. www.newmillshistory.org.uk#home (Book due out Feb 26th, available for preorder).

The FiLiA Trade Union Women's Network met today to strategise for 2026. This was followed by a fascinating evening spent with sisters at the Marx Memorial Library, with a tour of their incredible building and an archive workshop on Annie Mills. Thanks to the Marx Memorial Library for hosting us!

Thanks to Warwick Digital Archives, but also the Marxist Internet Archive and the Internet Archive who make amazing historical documents like this available to unaffiliated researchers like me #MollyMurphy #HistNursing

After the Rain, Dinas Mawddwy, north Wales, 1970, painting by David Woodford.

Bramall Hall, Tudor manor house, undergoes major restoration work in £1.6m project. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#OtD 8 Feb 1937 tens of thousands of Spanish civilians - mostly families with children and the elderly - fleeing Malaga in the Civil War were bombarded from the air and sea by Spanish, German and Italian fascist forces killing up to 5000 people. More: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

In the 50th issue of the North West History Society find articles about David Graham, Leonard Hall, the Blackburn Weaving Industry and the 1926 General Strike. Also, extensive book reviews. Go to nwlh.org.uk for details of how to subscribe

North West Labour History Society. 50th issue of the Society Journal is out now. Articles on David Graham, Leonard Hall of Windermere, the Chatterton Massacre and the Labour Party Women's Section in Eccles. To subscribe go to nwlh.org.uk

North West Labour History Journal. Fiftieth Issue now out. Please go to nwlh.org.uk for details of how to subscribe. Articles on Labour Party Women's Section in Eccles, the Chatterton Massacre, the Blackburn Weaving Industry, David Graham

Remembering our heritage; North East Labour History Society "The past is not just given. It is something to be recovered and reconstituted" Bill Williamson