Welcome to the SSLH

Chartism Day 2026: venue, date and call for papers.

Founded in 1960, the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) is the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history.

Membership is open to everyone who would like to learn more about labour history and heritage whether on a professional or amateur basis.

The SSLH publishes the journal the Labour History Review, organises regular conferences and actively promotes the preservation of historical resources connected to the labour movement.

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Events

Chartism Day 2026: venue, date and call for papers

Chartism Day 2026 will take place at Friends Meeting House, Warwick on Saturday 19 September. Please add the date to your diary. Further details including information on how to register will be published here nearer the date. Call for papers The Chartism Day Conferences were launched at the University of Birmingham in September 1995 by… Continue reading Chartism Day 2026: venue, date and call for papers

Labour History Review

Labour History Review Volume 90 (2025), issue 3

Labour History Review Volume 90 (2025), Issue 3 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats. In this issue… This special issue of Labour History Review focusing on Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals is guest-edited by Lorenzo Costaguta, Justine Cousin, Camille Fauroux, and Thomas van Gaalen. Articles include: Thomas… Continue reading Labour History Review Volume 90 (2025), issue 3

Labour History Review

Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals

Author: Lorenzo Costaguta, Justine Cousin, Camille Fauroux, and Thomas van GaalenThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. This essay introduces the key themes of the special issue Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals, edited by Lorenzo Costaguta, Justine Cousin, Camille Fauroux, and Thomas van Gaalen. The authors review… Continue reading Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals

Labour History Review

Selling Solidarity: Interwar Dutch Leftist Negotiations over Anti-Colonial Solidarity

Author: Thomas van Gaalen and Thijs te BraakeThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. Centring Dutch leftist expressions of solidarity with two anti-colonial revolts – the 1926 Indonesian revolt and an attempted 1929 Curaçaoan revolution – this article examines how leftists in the European metropole sold solidarity with… Continue reading Selling Solidarity: Interwar Dutch Leftist Negotiations over Anti-Colonial Solidarity

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