Our publishing partners in the Studies in Labour History book series. Don’t miss this great discount www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...

For the latest in our series of places in labour history @markcrail.bsky.social visits a small Cheshire churchyard to see the grave of the Chartist writer Helen Macfarlane sslh.org.uk/2025/12/05/b...

Less than a week to go! Interested in joining us (and our excellent archives) at the MRC? Get your application in by 7 December!

I've made two of my recent-ish research papers available via SSRN, where you can download them for free: Mining History, 1750-2024: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5677425 Labour History and the Economics of Natural Resources: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The gap between full-time union officials and rank-and-file workers in the 1910-14 Labour Revolt - 1 minute free download @sslh.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @wcml.bsky.social @buira.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3bU1...

For the latest in our series of places in labour history @markcrail.bsky.social visits a small Cheshire churchyard to see the grave of the Chartist writer Helen Macfarlane sslh.org.uk/2025/12/05/b...

In the second part of our series on places in labour history, Jane Donaldson recalls the great #co-operative movement pageant held at Wembley Stadium in London in 1938. #C20th #BritishHistory sslh.org.uk/2025/12/03/w...

Women workers on strike in the 1910-14 Labour Revolt: two minute free download @buiraonline.bsky.social @strikemap.org @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5OeB...

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In the second part of our series on places in labour history, Jane Donaldson recalls the great #co-operative movement pageant held at Wembley Stadium in London in 1938. #C20th #BritishHistory sslh.org.uk/2025/12/03/w...

Are you studying for a BA or taught Masters and need financial help to research a dissertation with a labour history theme? Check out our #bursary scheme… sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

If you teach on undergraduate history courses, please spread the word. Small sums can often make a huge difference.

Are you studying for a BA or taught Masters and need financial help to research a dissertation with a labour history theme? Check out our #bursary scheme… sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

In the first of our December series on places in labour history, @dnhamilton.bsky.social writes about the County Hotel, Durham sslh.org.uk/2025/12/01/c...

As much as I'm a scholar of Chartism, I'm also a Durham lad. It was great, therefore, to have a chance to write about one of the first sites to inspire my interest in British labour history, situated at the heart of the Miners Gala.

In the first of our December series on places in labour history, @dnhamilton.bsky.social writes about the County Hotel, Durham sslh.org.uk/2025/12/01/c...

Our December series ‘A Place in Labour History’ kicks off on our website tomorrow with the County Hotel and the Durham Miners’ Gala. There’ll be more to follow on the General Strike, Chartism, French Anarchists etc. Follow us (the big red button at the link below) and you won’t miss out sslh.org.uk

Congrats to Florencia D’Uva and James Squires, winner and runner-up respectively in the 2025 Labour History Review postgrad essay competition sslh.org.uk/2025/11/30/s...

Great book launch at the Marx Memorial Library yesterday for Henry Dee’s ‘Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa’. Dee pictured right; beside him is Dr Wayne Dooling of SOAS, who kindly acted as discussant sslh.org.uk/2025/11/04/m...

Join us Membership includes the next three issues of Labour History Review and access to the full back catalogue, discounts on books and the chance to support others studying labour history sslh.org.uk/join/

Gavin McCann visited @swminerslibrary.bsky.social to research his book on libraries, trade unions and education with the help of an SSLH bursary. Read his report and find out more about our research bursaries here 👇 sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...

We supported Harry Griffiths with a research bursary. His report is on our website 👇 sslh.org.uk/2025/11/27/h...

Gavin McCann visited @swminerslibrary.bsky.social to research his book on libraries, trade unions and education with the help of an SSLH bursary. Read his report and find out more about our research bursaries here 👇 sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...

We supported Harry Griffiths with a research bursary. His report is on our website 👇 sslh.org.uk/2025/11/27/h...

New publication by Grace Simpson, who is fab @sslh.bsky.social #labourhistory

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 actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...

The @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum has kicked off! Great to see @historyrichk.bsky.social in the front row of @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social's presentation for secondary history teachers, 'Beyond the Metropole', looking at the impact of the Transatlantic slave trade on the regions.

Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99. Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄 Please repost this if you can. #Chartism #C19th #History www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

We're proud to be a member of the #GeneralStrike100 national partnership Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-... Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!

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 actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...

🚨REMINDER🚨 Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr! 📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am 📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...

Find out more about our #bursaries. We are always open to applicants sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

We supported Drishya Rai's research trips to the Gurkha Museum and National Army Museum under our BA/Taught Masters bursary programme. Here's what she discovered sslh.org.uk/2025/11/20/d...

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

We supported Drishya Rai's research trips to the Gurkha Museum and National Army Museum under our BA/Taught Masters bursary programme. Here's what she discovered sslh.org.uk/2025/11/20/d...

Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951, by Henry Dee Book launch, Marx Memorial Library, Clerkenwell; Saturday 29 November, 4pm. All welcome sslh.org.uk/2025/10/27/b...

Never knew about this before. Great to see - and fun to spot the numerous anachronisms if, like me, you enjoy a bit of pedantry. londonist.com/london/art-a...

An excellent read; Keith Gildart’s review essay in The English Historical Review focusing on a collection of recent historical works on aspects of the 1984/5 British Miners Strike and remembering that 40years on. Incl. @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social FYI @ewangibbs.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social

Most read in Labour History Review | 'A Radical and Progressive Legacy: Labour’s Housing Record, 1945 to 1951' by John Robert Temple Read it online: bit.ly/Temple-LHR @sslh.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

Most read in Historical Studies in Industrial Relations | 'The Second World War: Remaking the British Working Class?' by Richard Croucher @gftuet.org.uk @sslh.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

Membership of the Society for the Study of Labour History costs £37 (£21 for students) and includes three issues of Labour History Review. If labour history matters to you, come and join us sslh.org.uk/join/

What connects labor and military history? The new LABOR Up for Debate, “The Wages of War,” tackles that question head-on. This WHOLE ROUNDTABLE is FREE to read for the next 3 months. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Membership of the Society for the Study of Labour History costs £37 (£21 for students) and includes three issues of Labour History Review. If labour history matters to you, come and join us sslh.org.uk/join/

Launch | Join Henry Dee to celebrate the publication of Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951, hosted by @sslh.bsky.social. Taking place on 29th November at the Marx Memorial Library, sign up here ⬇️ bit.ly/DeeLaunch

Fascinating chapter in Labour history.

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...

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...

New on the website: Pritam Singh reports on ‘Freedom and Whatever that Means: A History of the Politics of Overseas Labour Migrations from India c1833-1967’. sslh.org.uk/2025/10/27/r...

New on the website: Pritam Singh reports on ‘Freedom and Whatever that Means: A History of the Politics of Overseas Labour Migrations from India c1833-1967’. sslh.org.uk/2025/10/27/r...