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...

@revue-lms.bsky.social has published my article about South Shields for their “port identities” special issue. The article uses South Shields Trades Council to unpack themes of patriotism, internationalism, imperialism and race. doi.org/10.3917/lms1.287.0069 [translated by Camille Barbasetti]

As part of @ohcollective.bsky.social, I thoroughly enjoyed working on @lrfheritage.bsky.social #WomenInShipbuilding project led by @antonyfjrth.bsky.social. See some of the research produced by the project in Bryan Dixon’s video. #RewritingWomenIntoMaritimeHistory youtu.be/8POM_M1AK_I?...

Parution - Le Mouvement social 287 - Varia - 1. Identités portuaires (dossier dir. Michel Pigenet) - 2. De la tempérance à la pair-aidance (N. Sueur et A. Le Bras) Édité par @editionsscpo.bsky.social A lire sur @cairninfo.bsky.social et @projectmuse.bsky.social .