Author: EditorMC

I am a former journalist by trade, turned labour and family historian with a special interest in Chartism. I launched the Chartist Ancestors website since 2003, and am currently a member of the Society for the Study of Labour History executive committee, managing its website and social media in my free time.
Events

Worlds of Digital Labour: ITH conference

The 59th International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) takes place at Linz, Austria, from 26-28 September 2024. Titled Worlds of Digital Labour, the event is organised by ITH in co-operation with the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, the Chamber of Labour of Vienna, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politische Bildung and the City of Linz. … Continue reading Worlds of Digital Labour: ITH conference

Unknown's avatarEditorMC
Labour history news

People’s History Museum ‘my favourite’, says Culture Secretary

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has declared Manchester’s People’s History Museum her ‘favourite museum’. Speaking at the city’s Science and Industry Museum, which she said told ‘the story of ordinary extraordinary people who contribute to the growth of our country past and present’, she said that she had ‘spent many happy times here in this museum as a kid’ and now continued to visit with her … Continue reading People’s History Museum ‘my favourite’, says Culture Secretary

Unknown's avatarEditorMC
Books etc

Taken as Red: Highs and Lows of the Labour Party, 1924-2019

From equal pay to the Beeching cuts, Labour’s record in office has been distinctly mixed. Here, Richard Temple introduces his new book, drawing on a century-long record of government to provide a balanced assessment of the party’s impact on ordinary people. It’s unusual to remember the exact moment when you have an idea for a book. But I remember mine. It  was prompted by the … Continue reading Taken as Red: Highs and Lows of the Labour Party, 1924-2019

Unknown's avatarEditorMC
Labour history news

Labour historians look to the past in search of lessons for the Starmer government

What lessons should a Labour Cabinet which numbers five history graduates in its ranks* take from the experience of previous Labour governments? And how might the party’s past be used to help shape its future? In the fortnight leading up to the general election on 4 July, the Labour History Research Unit (LHRU) at Anglia Ruskin University surveyed historians of the Labour Party and modern … Continue reading Labour historians look to the past in search of lessons for the Starmer government

Unknown's avatarEditorMC
Labour History Review

Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), issue 2

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 … Continue reading Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), issue 2

Unknown's avatarEditorMC
Labour History Review

‘The Most Consistent of Them All’: William Sharman Crawford and the Politics of Suffrage

Author: Anthony DalyThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (2). Read more. This article examines William Sharman Crawford’s participation in mid-nineteenth-century popular radicalism in England. Despite his unusual background as a wealthy Irish landlord and his limitations as a politician, Sharman Crawford emerged as an important figure in Chartism, especially during the early 1840s when he served as MP for Rochdale. … Continue reading ‘The Most Consistent of Them All’: William Sharman Crawford and the Politics of Suffrage

Unknown's avatarEditorMC
Labour History Review

Boundary Review and the Organization and Identity of the Peterborough Divisional Labour Party

Author: Scott RawlinsonThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (2). Read more. The subdivision of larger territories into electoral districts is designed to enable representation for district populations in the national legislative body. This article establishes that spatial-type reforms such as the redrawing of electoral district boundaries can have profound and long-lasting, but often overlooked, organizational and ideational effects on local … Continue reading Boundary Review and the Organization and Identity of the Peterborough Divisional Labour Party

Unknown's avatarEditorMC
Labour History Review

Not an Industrial Matter: The British Trade Union Movement and Zionism, 1936–1967

Author: John RussellThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (2). Read more. 2023 Labour History Review Essay Prize Runner-Up This article examines the British trade union movement’s relationship with Zionism in the period from the Arab Revolt to the Six Day War. It argues that despite an appearance of fraternalism between the British and Zionist labour movements, this relationship was, in … Continue reading Not an Industrial Matter: The British Trade Union Movement and Zionism, 1936–1967

Unknown's avatarEditorMC
Labour History Review

Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 89 (2024), Issue 2

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (2). Read more. Thomas Fleischman reviews Leigh Claire La Berge, Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, pp. 416, p/b, $27.95, 978 14780 19251 Stephen Hopkins reviews Brigitte Studer, Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International, London and New York: Verso, 2023, pp. 476 + xiv, h/b, £30.00, … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 89 (2024), Issue 2

Unknown's avatarEditorMC