Society for the Study of Labour History
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Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
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If labour history matters to you, join us. Annual membership costs £37 (£21 for students) and includes a subscription to Labour History Review
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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...
Short papers and presentations from academics, trade unionists, heritage professionals, archivists and independent researchers welcome.
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/16/c...
Call for papers: General Strike Exploration Day
Date – 9 May 2026Venue – The People’s History MuseumAudience – Public audience and those with an interest in the working-class history, the labour movement and Manchester regional history Dow…
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January 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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...
Short papers and presentations from academics, trade unionists, heritage professionals, archivists and independent researchers welcome.
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/16/c...
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Our roundtable tribute to Malcolm Chase is now published in Northern History.
@northernhistory.bsky.social
(Open access version will be available soon).
@northernhistory.bsky.social
(Open access version will be available soon).
January 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Our roundtable tribute to Malcolm Chase is now published in Northern History.
@northernhistory.bsky.social
(Open access version will be available soon).
@northernhistory.bsky.social
(Open access version will be available soon).
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...
Short papers and presentations from academics, trade unionists, heritage professionals, archivists and independent researchers welcome.
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/16/c...
Call for papers: General Strike Exploration Day
Date – 9 May 2026Venue – The People’s History MuseumAudience – Public audience and those with an interest in the working-class history, the labour movement and Manchester regional history Dow…
sslh.org.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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...
Short papers and presentations from academics, trade unionists, heritage professionals, archivists and independent researchers welcome.
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/16/c...
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Free online talk
@womenshistnet.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @ukahn.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
#HistNursing #womenshistory #feminism
@womenshistnet.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @ukahn.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
#HistNursing #womenshistory #feminism
January 16, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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Event: 'Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire' sslh.org.uk/2026/01/15/v...
Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire
Writer and historian Jill Liddington is to talk at an event on ‘Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire’. The event takes place in the Albany Club, Hope Hall, Halifax, on the evening of Frida…
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January 15, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Event: 'Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire' sslh.org.uk/2026/01/15/v...
Event: 'Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire' sslh.org.uk/2026/01/15/v...
Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire
Writer and historian Jill Liddington is to talk at an event on ‘Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire’. The event takes place in the Albany Club, Hope Hall, Halifax, on the evening of Frida…
sslh.org.uk
January 15, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Event: 'Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire' sslh.org.uk/2026/01/15/v...
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Superb new book on the 1926 General Strike in this 100th anniversary year @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social
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January 14, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Superb new book on the 1926 General Strike in this 100th anniversary year @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social
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Micaela Panes is researching Labour women’s activism in south Wales and south-west England for her PhD thesis. We were delighted to help her visit a range of archives with one of our research bursaries. Read more on our website.
@dwi-micaela.bsky.social
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@dwi-micaela.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/13/m...
Micaela Panes (Cardiff) on Labour women’s political activism in south Wales and south-west England, c.1920s-1969.
My thesis explores the experiences of socialist women throughout south Wales and south-west England across a period of rapid political, social, and economic change (c.1920s-1969). Local histories o…
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January 13, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Micaela Panes is researching Labour women’s activism in south Wales and south-west England for her PhD thesis. We were delighted to help her visit a range of archives with one of our research bursaries. Read more on our website.
@dwi-micaela.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/13/m...
@dwi-micaela.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/13/m...
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Pen & Sword have a 50% off sale on *all* titles
Buying direct really helps authors and indy publishers! Going to link my titles in the thread below - first up:
Britain's Iron Chancellor, the autobiog of Philip Snowden, the most *Yorkshire* man in UK politics, 1st & most controversial Labour CofE
Buying direct really helps authors and indy publishers! Going to link my titles in the thread below - first up:
Britain's Iron Chancellor, the autobiog of Philip Snowden, the most *Yorkshire* man in UK politics, 1st & most controversial Labour CofE
Britain’s Iron Chancellor
PHILIP SNOWDEN was a proud Yorkshireman, a founding father of the Labour Party, its first Chancellor of the Exchequer and eventually was seen as a…
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January 11, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Pen & Sword have a 50% off sale on *all* titles
Buying direct really helps authors and indy publishers! Going to link my titles in the thread below - first up:
Britain's Iron Chancellor, the autobiog of Philip Snowden, the most *Yorkshire* man in UK politics, 1st & most controversial Labour CofE
Buying direct really helps authors and indy publishers! Going to link my titles in the thread below - first up:
Britain's Iron Chancellor, the autobiog of Philip Snowden, the most *Yorkshire* man in UK politics, 1st & most controversial Labour CofE
Reading by Glow Worm: The Struggles of Labouring-Class Poets 🕯️
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
All welcome, and its free, but please register
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
All welcome, and its free, but please register
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
January 11, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Reading by Glow Worm: The Struggles of Labouring-Class Poets 🕯️
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
All welcome, and its free, but please register
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
All welcome, and its free, but please register
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
If you’re looking for labour history-affiliated and -adjacent people and organisations, here’s our starter pack
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January 11, 2026 at 9:48 AM
If you’re looking for labour history-affiliated and -adjacent people and organisations, here’s our starter pack
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Also for U in our #1832AtoZ we have Universal Suffrage, one of the demands of the People's Charter. Find out more here about the response of the House of Commons to the Chartists: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/t...
The People’s Charter and the Victorian Commons
On 8 May 1838 the People’s Charter was first published. To celebrate its 175th anniversary, we consider the initial response of Victorian MPs to the Charter and the ways in which the History of Par…
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January 10, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Also for U in our #1832AtoZ we have Universal Suffrage, one of the demands of the People's Charter. Find out more here about the response of the House of Commons to the Chartists: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/t...
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While we are on the theme of Chartism...
All Chartists Great and Small: three recent books offer insights into the lives of local and national Chartist leaders
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January 10, 2026 at 10:45 AM
While we are on the theme of Chartism...
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All Chartists Great and Small: three recent books offer insights into the lives of local and national Chartist leaders
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/08/a...
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/08/a...
January 9, 2026 at 7:39 AM
All Chartists Great and Small: three recent books offer insights into the lives of local and national Chartist leaders
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We are looking for a new editor for our website and social media. Interested? DM us or email sslhwebeditor @ gmail . com for more info.
January 9, 2026 at 9:43 AM
We are looking for a new editor for our website and social media. Interested? DM us or email sslhwebeditor @ gmail . com for more info.
We are looking for a new editor for our website and social media. Interested? DM us or email sslhwebeditor @ gmail . com for more info.
January 9, 2026 at 9:43 AM
We are looking for a new editor for our website and social media. Interested? DM us or email sslhwebeditor @ gmail . com for more info.
All Chartists Great and Small: three recent books offer insights into the lives of local and national Chartist leaders
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/08/a...
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/08/a...
January 9, 2026 at 7:39 AM
All Chartists Great and Small: three recent books offer insights into the lives of local and national Chartist leaders
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/08/a...
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/08/a...
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Reading by Glow Worm: The Struggles of Labouring-Class Poets 🕯️
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
January 5, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Reading by Glow Worm: The Struggles of Labouring-Class Poets 🕯️
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
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🧵 As we prepare to reopen our doors next week, a reminder that Jennifer Reid's pop-up exhibition, The Singer Not the Song, is on display at the library until April!
January 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
🧵 As we prepare to reopen our doors next week, a reminder that Jennifer Reid's pop-up exhibition, The Singer Not the Song, is on display at the library until April!
Reading by Glow Worm: The Struggles of Labouring-Class Poets 🕯️
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
January 5, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Reading by Glow Worm: The Struggles of Labouring-Class Poets 🕯️
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...
Nice piece here about the Durham miners’ magnificent Redhills building
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Durham’s other cathedral’: mining union hall reopens after £14m restoration
Considered one of world’s finest trade union buildings and famous for its ‘pitmen’s parliament’, Redhills was built on a grand scale
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January 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Nice piece here about the Durham miners’ magnificent Redhills building
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Twelve places in labour history sslh.org.uk/tag/place-in...
December 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Twelve places in labour history sslh.org.uk/tag/place-in...
A happy fiftieth to our friends at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
📣You have just under a month to send in your proposal for our 2026 Social History Society Conference - where we will be celebrating out 50th anniversary!
👉Find out more here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
👉Find out more here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
SHS Annual Conference 2026
Our 50th anniversary conference will be held at Lancaster University, the academic home of the Social History Society. A Significant Milestone The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster Un…
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January 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
A happy fiftieth to our friends at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
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A Bluesky New Year welcome to the Framework Knitters Museum in Nottingham @frameworkknitters.bsky.social 🎉
Well worth a follow if you like your social history with added crafting!
Well worth a follow if you like your social history with added crafting!
Here to share more about our work celebrating the craft and graft of framework knitting, plus our new programme of events, workshops and exhibitions coming up in 2026.
January 2, 2026 at 11:15 AM
A Bluesky New Year welcome to the Framework Knitters Museum in Nottingham @frameworkknitters.bsky.social 🎉
Well worth a follow if you like your social history with added crafting!
Well worth a follow if you like your social history with added crafting!
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As we welcome in the #NewYear2026, a reminder about the Railway Work, Life & Death project.
Looking at accidents to British & Irish railway staff before 1939, last year we added 69,000 more records to our free project database!
More here:
Looking at accidents to British & Irish railway staff before 1939, last year we added 69,000 more records to our free project database!
More here:
69,000 railway company records released! - Railway Work, Life & Death
An introduction to our new data release - railway staff accident records produced by English & Welsh railway companies, 1855-1929.
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
January 1, 2026 at 11:01 AM
As we welcome in the #NewYear2026, a reminder about the Railway Work, Life & Death project.
Looking at accidents to British & Irish railway staff before 1939, last year we added 69,000 more records to our free project database!
More here:
Looking at accidents to British & Irish railway staff before 1939, last year we added 69,000 more records to our free project database!
More here: