Above: Mike Mecham presents Meirian Jump of the Marx Memorial Library with a copy of Left Lives in Twentieth-Century Ireland, Vol. 3: Communist Lives, edited by Francis Devine and Patrick Smylie (Umiskin Press, Dublin, April 2020). An inscription in the book reads, ‘Presented by Umiskin Press, Dublin, to the Marx Memorial Library in recognition of its major contribution to the preservation and enhancement of Socialist History. December 2022.’ The panel also carries an image and quote from James Connolly. Both Mike Mecham and Meirian Jump are members of the Society for the Study of Labour History’s executive committee. Umiskin Press is a not-for-profit publisher specialising in trade union and labour history books.