We are pleased to announce that Labour History Review is celebrating the publication of its 90th edition. Published in association with Liverpool University Press, alongside the book series Studies in Labour History, LHR and its predecessor, the Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, has since 1960 explored the working lives and politics of ‘ordinary’ people and has played a key role in redefining social and political history.

To mark the occasion, LUP and the Society for the Study of Labour History are sharing a selection of articles from the journal’s archive which are free to read throughout May 2025.

Browse the 90th Edition of Labour History Review including a free to read roundtable on The Starmer Labour Government in Historical Perspective.

The editors of the journal, Paul Corthorn (Queen’s University Belfast) and Peter Gurney (University of Essex), offer the following introduction to the selected articles: ‘We have great pleasure in celebrating the publication of the 90th edition of Labour History Review by making freely available the following articles. We have chosen them from the last decade or so – the period of our editorship – and it was a hard choice to make from a wealth of high-quality articles.’

Read the following articles for free throughout May

Donald MacRaild, ‘”No Irish Need Apply”: The Origins and Persistence of a Prejudice’ 78/3 (2013), 269-99

Jonathan Hyslop, ‘The Strange Death of Liberal England and the Strange Birth of Illiberal South Africa: British Trade Unionists, Indian Labourers and Afrikaner Rebels, 1910-1914’, 79/1 (2014), 97-120

Jamie Bronstein, ‘Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, the ‘Member for All England’: Representing the Non-voter in the Chartist Decade’, 80/2 (2015), 109-34

Tom Buchanan, ‘Ideology, Idealism, and Adventure: Narratives of the British Volunteers in the International Brigades’, 81/2 (2016), 123-40

David Selway, ‘Death Underground: Mining Accidents and Memory in South Wales, 1913–74’, 81/3 (2016), 187-209

Emmanuelle Morne, ‘Glorious Auxiliaries’? Gender, Participation, and Subordination in the Chartist Movement (1838–1851)’, 85/1 (2020), 7/32

Matt Beebee, ‘2019 Labour History Review Essay Prize Winner: Navigating Deindustrialization in 1970s Britain: The Closure of Bilston Steel Works and the Politics of Work, Place, and Belonging’, 85/3 (2020), 253-83.