Ellie Munro
@elmunro.bsky.social
Researcher. Voluntary and community action - history, policy, theory. @cdjplus.bsky.social board member. Former trade union bureaucrat and policy wonk. Brand: archives, institutions, community action, disability, Godzilla, wool. All snark mine.
Sun! Blue sky! And suddenly the road has come alive with people meeting like they've not met for 20 years. The Big Rain forgotten. Until tomorrow, when it will wash the joy back into the storm drains again.
February 14, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Sun! Blue sky! And suddenly the road has come alive with people meeting like they've not met for 20 years. The Big Rain forgotten. Until tomorrow, when it will wash the joy back into the storm drains again.
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This is a thread about UCU & what it has become over the last few years. But the first thing I want to say is I didn’t join a union to stay silent or turn my back on a single parent of three facing dismissal on the basis of their trade union activities. Marie Monaghan is the Unite UCU 1/12
February 13, 2026 at 2:59 PM
This is a thread about UCU & what it has become over the last few years. But the first thing I want to say is I didn’t join a union to stay silent or turn my back on a single parent of three facing dismissal on the basis of their trade union activities. Marie Monaghan is the Unite UCU 1/12
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🗣️“In pursuing arbitrary savings figures, the government risks our lives rather than testing new approaches that benefit disabled people, and the wider economy and society." - DR UK's Mickey Erhardt in Disability News Service's latest piece
Read more 👇
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/cuts-to-disa...
Read more 👇
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/cuts-to-disa...
Cuts to disability benefits for those who cannot work ‘is recipe for greater hardship’ and ‘will put lives at risk’
Activists say the government’s decision to slash disabled people’s out-of-work benefits is a “recipe for greater hardship” and will risk claimants’ lives, as ministers this week pushed through cuts…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM
🗣️“In pursuing arbitrary savings figures, the government risks our lives rather than testing new approaches that benefit disabled people, and the wider economy and society." - DR UK's Mickey Erhardt in Disability News Service's latest piece
Read more 👇
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/cuts-to-disa...
Read more 👇
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/cuts-to-disa...
Some very strong covers from yesterday's book haul.
This is not the first time a retiring community development researcher has let me pillage their collection. Hopefully one day some enthusiastic young thing will take them all off *my* shelves and wonder at the way things were.
This is not the first time a retiring community development researcher has let me pillage their collection. Hopefully one day some enthusiastic young thing will take them all off *my* shelves and wonder at the way things were.
February 13, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Some very strong covers from yesterday's book haul.
This is not the first time a retiring community development researcher has let me pillage their collection. Hopefully one day some enthusiastic young thing will take them all off *my* shelves and wonder at the way things were.
This is not the first time a retiring community development researcher has let me pillage their collection. Hopefully one day some enthusiastic young thing will take them all off *my* shelves and wonder at the way things were.
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Sending much solidarity to the brilliant @uniteucu.bsky.social members! The way you're being treated is unconscionable, and that it's being done by a trade union and in the name of our members defies comprehension.
#handsOffMarie
#handsOffMarie
Heading to the strike rally at noon outside @ucu.org.uk head office.
#HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation
#HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation
February 12, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Sending much solidarity to the brilliant @uniteucu.bsky.social members! The way you're being treated is unconscionable, and that it's being done by a trade union and in the name of our members defies comprehension.
#handsOffMarie
#handsOffMarie
Extremely good haul from a now-retired community development colleague, plus a million books ❤
You can in fact find copies of Community Action digitised here through the excellent People's Plans project (but I just like Things) www.peoplesplans.org/peoplesplans...
You can in fact find copies of Community Action digitised here through the excellent People's Plans project (but I just like Things) www.peoplesplans.org/peoplesplans...
February 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Extremely good haul from a now-retired community development colleague, plus a million books ❤
You can in fact find copies of Community Action digitised here through the excellent People's Plans project (but I just like Things) www.peoplesplans.org/peoplesplans...
You can in fact find copies of Community Action digitised here through the excellent People's Plans project (but I just like Things) www.peoplesplans.org/peoplesplans...
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Maaike Matelski & Lise Woensdregt write in our July '25 issue on community-based organisations in Kenya, the highly-varied forms these organisations take, and how communities are represented in Kenyan aid chains #CDJ #Kenya
What’s (in) a CBO? Analyzing community representation in the Kenyan aid chain
Abstract. Within the field of development research and practice, there is a growing realization that interventions aimed at supporting emancipation struggl
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February 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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🪴Everyone's Environment Local - Get involved!
This programme helps community-based organisations and DPOs take part in climate action
We are looking for 60 community organisations from Greater Manchester to join us - check it out below!
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/everyones-en...
This programme helps community-based organisations and DPOs take part in climate action
We are looking for 60 community organisations from Greater Manchester to join us - check it out below!
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/everyones-en...
Everyone's Environment
www.disabilityrightsuk.org
February 11, 2026 at 9:22 PM
🪴Everyone's Environment Local - Get involved!
This programme helps community-based organisations and DPOs take part in climate action
We are looking for 60 community organisations from Greater Manchester to join us - check it out below!
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/everyones-en...
This programme helps community-based organisations and DPOs take part in climate action
We are looking for 60 community organisations from Greater Manchester to join us - check it out below!
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/everyones-en...
Argh I posted things on LinkedIn in a brief moment of ego and dopamine hunting and now I'm suddenly horribly visible and why didn't I just stay in my little goblin hole
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Argh I posted things on LinkedIn in a brief moment of ego and dopamine hunting and now I'm suddenly horribly visible and why didn't I just stay in my little goblin hole
Great to see the new EMR fleet has preserved some of the best loved features from the old trains, would have really missed that broken reservation system and the futile hunt for a working socket.
February 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Great to see the new EMR fleet has preserved some of the best loved features from the old trains, would have really missed that broken reservation system and the futile hunt for a working socket.
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I am giving the Edinburgh Uni LGBTQ+ History Month lecture on the evening of 27 February, with the title 'Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise'. Details and link to register are here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Do come along if you're in Edinburgh!
LGBTQ+ History Month: 'Scottish trans pasts, useable and otherwise?' | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with Dr Sam Rutherford and learn more about the last 150 years of trans history in Scotland.
hca.ed.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 10:30 AM
I am giving the Edinburgh Uni LGBTQ+ History Month lecture on the evening of 27 February, with the title 'Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise'. Details and link to register are here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Do come along if you're in Edinburgh!
Excellent piece on Sheffield's Friends Of groups, covering histories, class divides and state withdrawal - all the voluntary sector studies classics.
ICYMI: Is Sheffield England’s friendliest city?
If “Friends of” groups are proof of bonhomie, then we’re blowing everywhere else out of the water.
If “Friends of” groups are proof of bonhomie, then we’re blowing everywhere else out of the water.
Are we England’s friendliest city?
If “Friends of” groups are proof of bonhomie, then we’re blowing everywhere else out of the water
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Excellent piece on Sheffield's Friends Of groups, covering histories, class divides and state withdrawal - all the voluntary sector studies classics.
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The vicitimisation of trade union activists affects us all. Even more so when it's done *by our own union* 🤯
Sending much solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social & asking everyone to write to the GS to put an end to this. (and
@tuc.org.uk, please have a word...) #HandsOffMarie
Sending much solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social & asking everyone to write to the GS to put an end to this. (and
@tuc.org.uk, please have a word...) #HandsOffMarie
📣 Hands off Marie!
Tell @drjogrady.bsky.social and @ucu.org.uk to stop victimising Unite UCU's safety rep.
✍️ [email protected]
#HandsOffMarie
#UniteTheUnion @unitetheunion.bsky.social
Tell @drjogrady.bsky.social and @ucu.org.uk to stop victimising Unite UCU's safety rep.
✍️ [email protected]
#HandsOffMarie
#UniteTheUnion @unitetheunion.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 7:36 PM
The vicitimisation of trade union activists affects us all. Even more so when it's done *by our own union* 🤯
Sending much solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social & asking everyone to write to the GS to put an end to this. (and
@tuc.org.uk, please have a word...) #HandsOffMarie
Sending much solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social & asking everyone to write to the GS to put an end to this. (and
@tuc.org.uk, please have a word...) #HandsOffMarie
Caroline Court, Woodstock. Six almshouses founded in 1797 by the Duchess of Marlborough for 'widows or maidens, of the age of 55 or upwards ... of sober life and good character’. Taken over and extended as housing for elderly people by Woodstock Borough Council in 1968.
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Regrettably our members will be commencing strike action from 9 February over the victimisation of our Health and Safety Officer.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/u...
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/u...
January 28, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Regrettably our members will be commencing strike action from 9 February over the victimisation of our Health and Safety Officer.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/u...
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/u...
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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...
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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...
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'Joyride', Franta Belsky, 1959. Belsky was commissioned by Stevenage Development Corporation to produce something symbolic for a recently created New Town (the Corporation took inspiration from the use of symbolic sculpture in the rebuilding of bombed Rotterdam).
January 27, 2026 at 9:15 AM
'Joyride', Franta Belsky, 1959. Belsky was commissioned by Stevenage Development Corporation to produce something symbolic for a recently created New Town (the Corporation took inspiration from the use of symbolic sculpture in the rebuilding of bombed Rotterdam).
Worked on this for Union Workers Union late last year. Hoping to do more on it.
Xoxo a disgruntled ex trade union employee.
Xoxo a disgruntled ex trade union employee.
Do unions practice what they preach? The UWU State of the Sector 2025 report reveals:
🚩 60% report negative culture
🚩 Over half faced bullying
🚩 2/3 say internal standards aren't met
We must be exemplary employers.
Read the full findings: unionworkersunion.org/news/final-r...
🚩 60% report negative culture
🚩 Over half faced bullying
🚩 2/3 say internal standards aren't met
We must be exemplary employers.
Read the full findings: unionworkersunion.org/news/final-r...
Final report of the State of the Sector Survey 2025 released
Trade union survey reveals toxic workplace cultures, unsafe workloads, and high levels of bullying, highlighting serious internal issues within trade unions themselves.
unionworkersunion.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Worked on this for Union Workers Union late last year. Hoping to do more on it.
Xoxo a disgruntled ex trade union employee.
Xoxo a disgruntled ex trade union employee.
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🚀 It’s here.
Launching today: Learning from Big Local - a new website with 15 years of lessons from community-led change.
Explore research and stories from 150 hyper-local areas - this is your resource for community-led change.
Visit the website: https://bit.ly/4rbcuop
Launching today: Learning from Big Local - a new website with 15 years of lessons from community-led change.
Explore research and stories from 150 hyper-local areas - this is your resource for community-led change.
Visit the website: https://bit.ly/4rbcuop
January 26, 2026 at 9:30 AM
🚀 It’s here.
Launching today: Learning from Big Local - a new website with 15 years of lessons from community-led change.
Explore research and stories from 150 hyper-local areas - this is your resource for community-led change.
Visit the website: https://bit.ly/4rbcuop
Launching today: Learning from Big Local - a new website with 15 years of lessons from community-led change.
Explore research and stories from 150 hyper-local areas - this is your resource for community-led change.
Visit the website: https://bit.ly/4rbcuop
And Trans stories too - this is just lovely stuff (and - as always - #CharityHistory)
The story of lesbian couple, Anna Gurney & Sarah-Maria Buxton who lived in Overstrand, Norfolk in the early 19th century who were local philanthropists are told with other stories at the Millennium Library, Norwich. 👇
Archive reveals hidden stories of Queer Norfolk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Archive reveals hidden stories of Queer Norfolk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Archive reveals hidden stories of Queer Norfolk
Figures such as Barbara Ross and Anna Gurney were ahead of their time, says archivist Adam Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
And Trans stories too - this is just lovely stuff (and - as always - #CharityHistory)
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A redundancy consultation opened by the RNLI is facing scrutiny from the trade union Unite, which claims that the charity’s workers are being “denied a voice” on proposed closure plans at one of its manufacturing sites.
RNLI rejects union request amid redundancy consultation
www.civilsociety.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 1:08 PM
A redundancy consultation opened by the RNLI is facing scrutiny from the trade union Unite, which claims that the charity’s workers are being “denied a voice” on proposed closure plans at one of its manufacturing sites.
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🚨 REMINDER 🚨
Join us online *tomorrow* to hear from @deannalyncook.bsky.social about her research into Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Postwar Britain!
Get your tickets below:
🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us online *tomorrow* to hear from @deannalyncook.bsky.social about her research into Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Postwar Britain!
Get your tickets below:
🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
January 21, 2026 at 1:12 PM
🚨 REMINDER 🚨
Join us online *tomorrow* to hear from @deannalyncook.bsky.social about her research into Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Postwar Britain!
Get your tickets below:
🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us online *tomorrow* to hear from @deannalyncook.bsky.social about her research into Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Postwar Britain!
Get your tickets below:
🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Picturesque Procession at Whittington is one of three posts based on newspaper reports from the early 1900s added by Linda J Bell to the blog of her Old Whittington #OnePlaceStudy. Check it out on #OnePlaceWednesday!
Picturesque Procession at Whittington
This article from the Derbyshire Times 21 May 1910 reports on the Salvation Army procession in Whittington. It sounds like a very well attended event and whilst not just covering Old Whittington th…
oldwhittingtonops.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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🎉Our client has won! In a landmark case, he is the first Palestinian born in Israeli-occupied Palestine to be granted asylum in Britain, despite sinister ministerial intervention. 🧵[1/5]
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestinian citizen of Israel wins UK asylum over ‘well-founded fear of persecution’
Exclusive: Refugee status granted despite attempt by former home secretary James Cleverly to block 26-year-old’s claim
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:20 AM
🎉Our client has won! In a landmark case, he is the first Palestinian born in Israeli-occupied Palestine to be granted asylum in Britain, despite sinister ministerial intervention. 🧵[1/5]
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Overcommitting to projects since 1988
January 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Overcommitting to projects since 1988