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Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social · 8h

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

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#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…

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Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks John!

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CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…

sslh.org.uk

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 4d

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!

Photo of a two-storey building with cars parked next to it. On the wall of the building is a sign reading "ZCTU HQ Solidarity House"
Underneath the sign is a red banner reading "Zambia Congress of Trade Unions #Solidarityforever"

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Strike Map @strikemap.org · 8d

🚨 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

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social · 22d

Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao caio

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General strike for Palestine halts Italy

After the trade unions' call, workers and activists have taken to the streets to block Israeli weapons and rally against its government.

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Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social · Sep 13

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...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · Sep 5

⛏️✨ 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/...

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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

Zarah Sultana, The Alternative — Sidecar

On Britain’s new left party—3.

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Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social · Jul 12

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
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Photograph of our Remembering 1926 stall at the Durham Miners’ Gala

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

DMA statement - Durham Miners Gala and Reform UK

Reform UK have chosen to criticise us publicly for not inviting them to the Gala. They obviously don’t understand how this works, so we will explain...

www.durhamminers.org

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · May 20

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 🐝🍯

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Article on bees and bee-keeping from 'The Land Worker', January 1920.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · May 1

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/...

Illustration by Walter Crane captioned 'Labour's May Day. Dedicated to the workers of the world'. It shows five men holding hands around a globe captioned 'Solidarity of Labour'. An angel with a 'Freedom' halo is standing behind, with arms and wings stretched out. The names of the continents are visible in the picture, along with tools and ears of corn [UCATT archives, document reference: MSS.78/UCATT/5].

1896 leaflet for a Labour Day demonstration at Hyde Park, London, on 1 May. It includes a statement 'To the Workers of London' from H.W. Lee and Ben Gardner [archives of William Wess, document reference: MSS.240W/3/29].

Leaflet advertising May-Day demonstrations organised by the Manchester and Salford Trades Council and Manchester and Salford Borough Labour Parties. The demonstration was arranged for 7 May 1933, rather than the first of the month [from Trades Union Congress archives; document reference: MSS.292/59/1].

Leaflet issued for May Day 1936. It includes a photograph from the Imperial War Museum of First World War soldiers blinded from a gas attack, and talks of "grave perils ... threatened by the continuance of economic disorders and political antagonisms" [from Trades Union Congress archives; document reference: MSS.292/59/1]

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · Apr 22

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...

All items of value have been removed

I’ve been documenting the East Durham Coast (former) pit villages for a number of years.

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Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social · Apr 12

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

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Apr 2

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...

Tank next to two children on a residential street

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Mar 18

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...

British University Redundancy Map - Google My Maps

Mapping redundancies from 2023

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · Mar 18

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...

A Nation on Strike: first thoughts on 1926

A Nation on Strike, front page. In September 1926, Walter Milne-Bailey, head of the TUC research department, sat down to record his thoughts on the General Strike, which had taken place in May of t…

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UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Mar 1

#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...

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Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social · Feb 17

@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]

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Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social · Feb 17

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?...

Telling the Hidden Story of Women in Shipbuilding in the First World War in North East England #WIS

YouTube video by Heritage & Education Centre

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Le Mouvement social @revue-lms.bsky.social · Feb 12

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 .

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