The July 2024 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, July 2024
The Liverpool University Press summer sale is now on. LUP, the Society’s partner in publishing Labour History Review and the Studies in Labour History book series, is offering up to 50% off print and ebooks purchased on its website. Use discount code ‘27SUMMER’ at checkout. Sale ends 14th July! ☀️ See books in the Studies in Labour History book series. Go to the LUP website. Continue reading Liverpool University Press summer sale
In the weeks before Europe descended into war, the case of a Staffordshire trade unionist named Vale Rawlings became a political cause célèbre. Elaine Pritchard explains current efforts to tell his story. In June 1914, Vale Rawlings, a trade union activist from Burton upon Trent, made newspaper headlines across the country after he was allegedly framed for assaulting a police inspector on a picket line … Continue reading Vale Rawlings: recovering the lost story of a Burton upon Trent trade unionist
This fine rosette carries at its centre the badge of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers’ Union. Originating as the Tea Operatives and General Labourers’ Association in 1887, the union played a central role in the London dock strike two years later, becoming that same year the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers’ Union of Great Britain. The rosette and badge shown here, however, … Continue reading Dockers’ union rosette in red, white and green
Registration for Chartism Day is now open. The event is coming to the University of Reading for the first time in its twenty-nine year history, taking place on Saturday, 7 September, and is open to all. UPDATE: Chartism Day 2024 has now taken place. Read our report here. Professor Mike Sanders will deliver the keynote address on ‘Some passages in the Life of a (Tory) … Continue reading Chartism Day 2024: registration now open
Funding from the Society for the Study of Labour History allowed me to conduct a wide range of research into eighteenth-century female domestic servants. My aim was to discover how they have been represented both in their time and now, whether this representation has changed, and what might we be able to do to change it. Domestic servants have traditionally been excluded from labouring, working-class … Continue reading Lauren Halls (York) on the representation of eighteenth-century female domestic servants
Hugh Clegg was a founding figure of post-war British industrial relations. He defined ‘industrial democracy’ as collective bargaining with trade unions, laid the foundations for the pluralist approach to industrial relations, was a key figure in the post-war social sciences, and a major public policy player. In a new book, Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis, Peter Ackers, Emeritus Professor in the History … Continue reading Hugh Clegg: intellectual biography of a key figure in industrial relations and labour history
Registration is now open and a final programme is available for the HistoryLab+ 2024 conference, taking place on 25-26 July 2024 at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. Find out more and register. Speakers at panel sessions include Dr Chris Townsend on ‘The Economics of Antislavery Verse’, and Alexandra Dold on ‘Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Novels: Representing … Continue reading Conference: HistoryLab+ at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation
The final conference programme for Gender, Family, and Deindustrialisation, the annual conference of the Deindustrialisation and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) partnership project is now live. See the full programme. Taking place from June 24-26 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, the event features a number of extramural activities on the opening day, including a walk around Govan to better understand Glasgow’s shipbuilding … Continue reading Conference: Gender, Family, and Deindustrialisation
We have a new page on the website setting out the collections in the South Wales Miners’ Library and how these can be accessed. The library holds collections relevant to the social and cultural histories of industrial South Wales. Key periods covered by the collection include the Spanish Civil War, the nationalisation of coal and the 1984-5 strike. Holdings on these subjects span various resources, … Continue reading Inside the South Wales Miners’ Library
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