Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), Issue 2 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats.

William Sharman Crawford was a wealthy Irish landowner who became an important figure in Chartism, especially during the early 1840s when he served as MP for Rochdale. Here, Anthony Daly draws on archival materials and the newspaper press to argue for Sharman Crawford’s significance in bridging the divides of radicalism in this era. Read more.

Also in this issue, Scott Rawlinson presents a case study of the impact of changed cosntituency boundaries on Peterborough Labour Party’s structural organization, its selection and retention of parliamentary candidates and organizers, and the ways in which national policies were framed locally. Read more.

John Russell was runner-up in the Labour History Review essay competition for 2023. In this article he examines the British trade union movement’s relationship with Zionism from the Arab Revolt to the Six Day War, and argues that the relationship between the British and Zionism trade union movements was governed more by British indifference and political expediency than by any genuine ideological solidarity or conviction. Read more.

This issue also includes book reviews by Thomas Fleischman, Stephen Hopkins, Quentin Outram, and Mark Hurst. Read more.

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