Welcome to the SSLH

Find out what’s inside the latest issue of Labour History Review.

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.

What’s new

Events

Histories of Human, Animal, and Environmental Exploitation and its Legacies

The call for papers for this innovative conference on the histories of human, animal, and environmental exploitation and its legacies closes at one minute to midnight on 15 May 2024. The conference itself follows on 25-26 July 2024 at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. See… Continue reading Histories of Human, Animal, and Environmental Exploitation and its Legacies

Books etc

Visions of labour and class in Ireland and Europe: conference proceedings

The Irish Labour History Society (ILHS) embarked on an ambitious programme to mark its fiftieth anniversary involving an international conference in Dublin titled ‘Visions of Labour and Class’ and a collection of essays exploring the role of labour history in Irish historical narratives – Labour History in Irish History (reviewed in Labour History Review). Both… Continue reading Visions of labour and class in Ireland and Europe: conference proceedings

Bursary reports

Callum Campbell (Northumbria) on Unity Theatre and the Spanish Civil War

My dissertation considers how innovative theatre and cinema produced across Spain and Britain during the Spanish Civil War mobilised new audiences to engage with political propaganda. The final chapter considers the actions of Unity Theatre to reach working-class communities and contest national policies of non-intervention. The bursary allowed me to visit four archives in Manchester… Continue reading Callum Campbell (Northumbria) on Unity Theatre and the Spanish Civil War

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