People’s History Museum is hosting an evening event to mark the 40th anniversary of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM); an organisation that played a unique role in the events of the 1984 to 1985 miners’ strike. Taking place on Thursday 27 February, from 6pm to 9pm, as part of a programme of events for LGBT+ History Month, Solidarity Forever: 40 Years of LGSM … Continue reading Solidarity Forever: 40 Years of LGSM
The National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS) was never a large trade union, but it was of major significance and importance in the coal industry because of the safety functions of its members. When the union ceased to exist in 2015, with the closure of Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Britain, its central records were thought to have been … Continue reading Mining union records feared destroyed are rediscovered after a decade in the damp
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded a six-figure sum to the Co-operative Heritage Trust for its ‘Seeds of Change’ project, which aims to fully catalogue and open up the Co-operative College Archival Collection The £131,653 grant will enable the Trust to recruit a project archivist to work with community volunteers over the next two years, to conserve and protect the collection and make it … Continue reading Lottery grant promises to open up Co-operative College Archive for all
Ministers have ditched proposals made under the previous government to destroy millions of wills dating back to 1858 as a money-saving measure. The Society for the Study of Labour History was among 1,600 organisations and individuals to respond to a Ministry of Justice consultation document, issued in December 2023, which put forward proposals to digitise 110 million wills before destroying the original documents in a … Continue reading Victory in campaign to save historic wills from destruction
The January 2025 issue of our members’ newsletter is out now. If you are a member of the Society for the Study of Labour History, you will have received this in a PDF document by email. You can also download it from the Members’ Resources page here on the website. The newsletter is not sent to non-members, who are, instead, invited to join us. Continue reading SSLH members’ newsletter, January 2025
The People’s History Museum 2025 Banner Exhibition opens on Saturday 18 January. Running until 29 December 2025, the exhibition includes banners produced by trade unions, political parties, the co-operative movement, peace campaigns and others over more than a century of campaigning. Among the historic trade union banners represented in this year’s exhibition is that of the National Union of Railwaymen, Hither Green branch banner, made … Continue reading PHM to unveil 2025 banners exhibition
Michael Herbert (ed.), “M.A.L” The Journalism and Writing of Madeline Alberta Linford, self-published through Lulu.com and available here, 2024, p/b, pp. 540, £15.99, ISBN 978 14452 05465 Madeline Linford (1895-1975) was a pioneer. She was the first woman on the editorial staff of the Manchester Guardian and edited the first women’s page for the paper from 1922 to 1939. (‘Women’s World’ columns, often merely sops … Continue reading The Journalism and Writing of Madeline Alberta Linford
Our annual review of labour history anniversaries takes in the shifting legal framework for trade unions, the first legislation on sex discrimination and equal pay, and the lead up to the General Strike. It starts, however, in 1775 with Thomas Paine, the author of The Rights of Man, and ends in 2000 with the Human Rights Act coming into force. Continue reading Ten labour history anniversaries in 2025
Labour history societies throughout the UK and beyond have published the year-end editions of their journals for 2025. Here we offer a summary of their contents. The round-up includes the journals of : North West Labour History SocietyNorth East Labour History SocietyScottish Labour History SocietyIrish Labour History SocietyAustralian Labour History Society North West History Journal – North West Labour History Society The front cover of … Continue reading Labour history journals round-up, 2024
The Labour History Review index for issues published in 2024 (volume 89) has been added to the website. It is now possible to access copies of the index for every issue of the Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin (published from 1960 to 1989) and for Labour History Review (from 1990 to date). The index is compiled by Dr Mike Mecham. It is … Continue reading Labour History Review index 2024
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