Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026 (Please share widely) sslh.org.uk/2026/02/19/l...

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I’m finishing today my posting of recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain - in this 100th anniversary year - with Nos. 27-35. Hope you’ve liked the overall series over recent weeks?!! @strikemap.org @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social

Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026 (Please share widely) sslh.org.uk/2026/02/19/l...

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!

We are sorry to hear of the death of former Labour Party archivist Stephen Bird, who has died aged 79. sslh.org.uk/2026/02/17/s...

Match-box makers, c.1906 In 1906 'sweated' (poorly paid) homeworkers were put on public display as part of a 6 week exhibition organised by the Daily News The exhibition handbook included photos of workers (mostly women) in their usual domestic working conditions warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

It’s the start of the week, so here’s Number 21 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 @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social

So good to see this in print @sslh.bsky.social

We'll be there! Looking forward to sharing some of our work with the National Union of Mineworkers archives at #HAP26 and catching up with other projects which have communities at the core!

An index for Labour History Review vol 90 (2025) is now on our website. There are indexes for every issue of the Society's publications since it was founded in 1960, with a consolidated index in Excel from 1990 when LHR was launched. All indexes are free to download. sslh.org.uk/publications...

Chartism Day 2026 This year's event will take place in Warwick on 19 September 2026. For more info and to see the call for papers, click the link. #Chartism #ChartismDay #CfP sslh.org.uk/2026/02/12/c...

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is now listed in Verso's trade catalogue for 2026. You can find it here: versobooks.com/en-gb/pages/...

Chartism Day 2026 This year's event will take place in Warwick on 19 September 2026. For more info and to see the call for papers, click the link. #Chartism #ChartismDay #CfP sslh.org.uk/2026/02/12/c...

A special issue of our journal Labour History Review on ‘Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals’ is out now sslh.org.uk/2026/02/09/l...

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

The new issue of Labour History Review is out now, online and in print @livunipress.bsky.social sslh.org.uk/2026/02/09/l...

The new issue of Labour History Review is out now, online and in print @livunipress.bsky.social sslh.org.uk/2026/02/09/l...

For all of those left-wing bibliophiles amongst you, here is a wonderful second-hand resource @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @nwlh.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social

Ok, so we’ve now reached No 15 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 @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @nwlh.bsky.social

Question for C19th Labour Historians have you come across references to “shuttle-gathering” as a tactic in industrial disputes? Hoping @katrinanavickas.bsky.social and @sslh.bsky.social might be able to help!

Today it’s No. 12 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 @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social

This is such an impressive and valuable collection of material. So easy to go down the rabbit hole and spend many hours engrossed in this.

Well, today we’ve reached Book No. 10 of my recommended classic 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 @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social

Congratulations to Bowen Ran, PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam, on publishing ‘E. P. Thompson’s Historiographic Agency in Beyond the Frontier’ in Historia: Philosophy & Theory, 1, 72-79. We were delighted to be able to support his research with a research bursary doi.org/10.46991/hpt...

Here's me speaking about the Blair era at the University of Bristol today... Coming to York, Oxford and London for New Labour book launches soon!

On my way to London to deliver this paper. It's possible to watch online if you're interested.

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Today it’s Book No. 9 of my recommended classic 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 @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social

An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October! Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!

Have you seen the new updated London Clarion Cycle Club website? We think you’ll like it! Take a look 👀 www.londonclarion.org.uk

Save the date! Join us for an online archival workshop with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social to explore the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

#C19th #Chartism If you’ve ever seen the portrait of William Cuffay sketched by a fellow prisoner in Newgate Gaol, you may wonder what became of the Irish Confederate who drew it. William Paul Dowling’s life story is now on Chartist Ancestors. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...

The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries of up to £500 to students on BA and Taught Masters programmes to support archival, library and online research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history topic sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries for up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers (MA and doctoral) and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support for conferences and public events with a focus on labour history, broadly defined. Applications, for a maximum of £850 per event, are welcome at any time of year. sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries of up to £500 to students on BA and Taught Masters programmes to support archival, library and online research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history topic sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries for up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers (MA and doctoral) and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support for conferences and public events with a focus on labour history, broadly defined. Applications, for a maximum of £850 per event, are welcome at any time of year. sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

An excellent new resource from @uoscollections.bsky.social! We're looking forward to exploring the catalogue and developing links between the Arthur Scargill Archive and the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers archives (full NUM catalogue available in the next couple of months!)

🚨NEWLY CATALOGUED COLLECTION🚨 We are delighted to announce that after a 2-year project, the Arthur Scargill Archive is now available for research in our public reading room!🎉 More info➡️ tinyurl.com/cz3s5dxk Browse the catalogue➡️ tinyurl.com/vn4xvdd6 @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social

To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Residency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library. Details in link. Please share :)

Book No. 6 Recommended classic texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social

Work with the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers continues... Today our project archivist has been unrolling National Control Room notices which last saw daylight 41 years ago (and easing off the brittle remains of the Blu Tack) mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/NUM/...

Book No. 5 Recommended classic texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social

Recommended classic texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain, in this 100th anniversary year. Book no. 3 - one book per day @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @phm.org.uk @keithbeard.bsky.social

Call for Papers #CfP: General Strike Exploration Day, Manchester, 9 May 2026. Short papers and presentations from academics, trade unionists, heritage professionals, archivists and independent researchers welcome. sslh.org.uk/2026/01/16/c...

Our roundtable tribute to Malcolm Chase is now published in Northern History. @northernhistory.bsky.social (Open access version will be available soon).