Are there any #historians going to the UK National Archives at Kew soon who could photograph a short file for me? #histsky discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1...

Collective Researcher @joeredmayne.bsky.social is giving a talk entitled Chopwell: From the Miners' Lockout to the General Strike, 1925-'26 in Chopwell THIS FRIDAY 13th March! There are only a handful of (free!) tickets left - don't miss out! Get tickets: ticketsource.com/booking/sele...

Red Pepper returns to print. 'Striking back' explores 100 years since the 1926 General Strike, migration justice, repression in Latin America and wars for oil in Nigeria and Iran. Culture critics take on film, TV, music and books. Order by 5 March to guarantee pre-launch delivery to your door!

New Video! 📽️ Collective researcher @silviefisch.bsky.social discusses the Byker Community Archive, the history of the Estate, and the work being done to transform the space in the near future! 📃 Watch on the OHC YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTEw... #oralhistory #byker

I’m helping PhD student, Vyshakh Thaliyil, with their film comparing the politics and industrial militancy of Pattiam in Northern Kerala and Chopwell in North East England. I will be speaking about worker resistance against the ConsettIronCo. Please do come along www.ticketsource.com/chopwell1925...

#𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 Brought to you by the GS100 national partnership. Pledge to visit your nearest partners and historical sites here: bit.ly/VisitaGS100s... 1/5

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 🎪 🗓️13 March, 10am Chopwell: From the Miners’ Lockout to the General Strike, 1925–26 Venue: The Red House, Newcastle 🗓️14 March, 10am Manchester Women and the General Strike: 100 years on Venue: Mechanics Institute, Manchester 2/5

@politicdormouse.bsky.social My friend @jostanley.bsky.social's book is now out. If you have any interest in #maritimehistory or #womenshistory you will want to buy this. She is THE expert on these topics. thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/... #historybook #history

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?” Oli Dugmore It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

Three scholarships for PhD in Arthur Scargill Archive - quite the opportunity. Believe me when I say that I am sure that some of the stuff in here will be quite the eye-opener! (if the good stuff hasn't been already shredded or slapped with an embargo)

It is always a pleasure to read about Margaret Calvert. Absolute legend. Her contribution to the look of modern Britain is immense. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

As the General Strike centenary gets closer, we've been boosting our digitised content! 560 original documents have now been digitised & are free to access, including strike bulletins, radio transcripts, union communications & more... #GeneralStrike100 cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Just over a week or so left to submit your abstracts. It’s shaping up to be an excellent conference from the papers already submitted, as well as with confirmed keynote speakers Prof. David Featherstone and Dr. @kasperbrasken.bsky.social. Please share with colleagues and networks! #GeneralStrike100

Just over a week or so left to submit your abstracts. It’s shaping up to be an excellent conference from the papers already submitted, as well as with confirmed keynote speakers Prof. David Featherstone and Dr. @kasperbrasken.bsky.social. Please share with colleagues and networks! #GeneralStrike100

"Three Palestine Action members end 73-day hunger strike | UK News | Sky News" news.sky.com/story/palest...

What does a new exhibition on 200 years of British trades union history reveal about the tumultuous story of workers organising for change? Marybeth Hamilton sits down with historians and archivists to discuss the exhibition and the unexpected stories that it unveils.

In our continuing series on places in labour history, Quentin Outram recounts the story of the Northumberland miners who came to be known as the Cramlington train wreckers sslh.org.uk/2025/12/19/c...

Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...

We're proud to be a member of the #GeneralStrike100 national partnership . Explore our interactive map and sign up to visit your nearest partner and #GeneralStrike100 history sites via https://bit.ly/VisitaGS100site #GFTU

Call for papers #CFP Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present 18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... Deadline: 25 Jan 2026

The newest issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social (22:3) is online! Featuring essays on transnational solidarity, war, food, activism, and more! View the TOC and read the issue introduction, freely available: buff.ly/JczGGqn

See the recent book review by Joe Redmayne of 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century' by Ravi Ahuja (Verso, 2024): doi.org/10.1080/0308...

The Genoese dockworkers inserted themselves into the globe’s most contentious political issue, Palestine, using the best tool in any worker’s toolbox: stopping work. Call it a boycott, call it direct action, call it a strike. When workers stop working, bosses & governments take notice. My latest! ✊

On 22 November, I'll be giving an online talk as part of the Mineral Expertise series at the University of Vienna: "Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?" You can sign up here: scarce.univie.ac.at/events/singl...

#ICYMI: In one of our latest blogs, @redhen90.bsky.social shares information about the national partnership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the General Strike 1926. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/blog-making-... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll @gftu.org.uk

Join us for the launch of Henry Dee’s ‘Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951’. Published with @livunipress.bsky.social. Marx Memorial Library, 29 November sslh.org.uk/2025/10/27/b...

Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.

New book review published at @jich.bsky.social @joeredmayne.bsky.social reviews Ravi Ahuja's 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century' @versobooks.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Massive congratulations to our wonderful @liamliburd.bsky.social for the publication of his new article "The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s" in The Journal of British Studies. 🎉https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2025.10129

Colleagues doing very cool things! One for the labour, maritime and mining historians among you.

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social Deadline: 6 February 2026 More details: @sslh.bsky.social sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c... sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u... Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk #GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social Deadline: 6 February 2026 More details: @sslh.bsky.social sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c... sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u... Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk #GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

Our project to digitise the Zambia Congress of Trade Union archives has now been scanning documents for a year. Over 80,000 pages scanned so far, despite severe power shortages in Zambia!

🚨 Over 1,300 trade unionists have signed #StrikeMap & CTUF's call for an Employment Rights Bill 2 — backed by 14 organisations. Here are the top 10 unions whose members are leading the call 1) @unitetheunion.bsky.social 2) POA 3) @unison.org.uk 4) @pcsunion.bsky.social #StrikeMap

Are you of African/Caribbean descent with ties to the Valleys? The Black Valleys Project would love to hear your story! Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools. 🗓️Friday 24th October 🕰️2pm 📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum

Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao caio socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-20...

McCarthyism is here, and gender scholars and equality activists and even basic human/legal rights proponents are in its sights. I have learnt so much from Judith Butler and now this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

⛏️✨ Lessons in solidarity, straight from 1984. Miners’ Weekend School (1984) at The Burr of Berwick. Six films by Amber Films’ Current Affairs Unit from the 1984 to 85 Miners’ Strike. Free drop-in Saturdays 12 to 4 pm until 31 Oct.  🔗 More details: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

Interesting interview with Zara Sultana newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

We will be at the Durham Miners’ Gala again. However, this year, we will have our recorders at the ready to conduct mini interviews. If you have any family histories, stories, or memorabilia related to the General Strike of 1926 — pop by our stall! @sslh.bsky.social blogs.ncl.ac.uk/commemoratin...

Brilliant statement from the Durham Miners Association on why Reform is not welcome on the platform for the Durham Miners Gala https://www.durhamminers.org/statement_durham_miners_gala_and_reform_uk

A cautionary note from 'The Land Worker' in 1920... "It has yet to be proved that bees have any affection for anybody or anything that does not yield honey." #WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #BeeKind 🐝🍯 mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/AAW/...

Marking May Day with a selection of labour movement leaflets from the 1890s and 1930s, from the celebration of Walter Crane's illustration to protests against economic plight and international peril More illustrations by Walter Crane are available at mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/CAT/...

Please read & share this, it took me ages. This is a project I was trying (and failing) to get funding for for a year. I came close, but I wanted to write it up anyway and share some of the photos because I think it's important to get them out there. #Photography open.substack.com/pub/mariegar...

In 2023, I published the history of Birkbeck, formerly the London Mechanics' Institution, & my intellectual 'home' for 3 decades (gulp!). But Mechanics Institutes were all around the world. I wrote a short piece on the one in Lurgan. See the blog: www.joannabourke.com/blog. @lovinglurgan.bsky.social

In the run up to the centenary anniversary next year, here's my short introduction to the 1926 General Strike for @phm.org.uk #GeneralStrike100 phm.org.uk/blogposts/19...

This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map: ‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...

Great to see this fascinating document on the 1926 General Strike going online courtesy of the TUC Library Collections sslh.org.uk/2025/03/18/a...

#OtD 1 Mar 1912 over 1 million British coal miners went on strike for a nationwide minimum wage for coal miners. 37 days into the strike the government caved and passed the Coal Mines Act, establishing a minimum wage for the first time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...