Labour History Review Volume 88 (2023), Issue 2 has now been published. This issue takes us from research on the processions that took place in Scotland during the agitation for Chartism and each of the Reform Acts of the nineteenth century, and of the flags, uniforms, costumes and models that accompanied them, to a study of merchant sailors as a subsection of the working class … Continue reading Labour History Review Volume 88 (2023), issue 2
Author: Sonny AngusThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (2), 95-123. Read more. During the agitations around Chartism and each of the nineteenth century Reform Acts, radicals in Scotland turned out onto the streets in formal processions. They did so with a variety of vibrant materials, including flags, uniforms, costumes, and models. This article examines the purposes of, … Continue reading Material Cultures of Class in Scottish Radical Processions, 1832–1884
Author: Joe DaveyThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (2), 125-158. Read more. There is a stereotypical perception of the sailor as being a drunken, promiscuous, violent nuisance on the streets of a port town. In offering a partial corrective to this, this article portrays sailors in ways not normally associated with the stereotypical image and identity politics … Continue reading Bristol Sailors in the Nineteenth Century: A Breed Apart?
Richard Croucher, who died aged seventy-three on 16 December 2022, was a versatile scholar and talented labour historian who became well known as a teacher and researcher of employment relations, international trade unionism, and management studies. He played a prominent part in the field of labour history from the mid-1970s into the 1990s. His books Engineers at War and We Refuse to Starve in Silence constituted a significant contribution … Continue reading A Scholarly Life: Richard Croucher (1949-2022)
The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (2), 185-198. Read more. Joe Stanley reviews Peter Hounsell, Bricks of Victorian London: A Social and Economic History, Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2022, pp. xiv + 283 + 15 plates, p/b, £18.99, ISBN 978 19122 60577 Quentin Outram reviews M.M. Borodin (trans. and ed. Pete Dickenson), The Great Betrayal: Black Friday and the 1921 Miners’ Lockout, London: … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review Volume 88 (2023), Issue 2
The death of Willie Thompson will be mourned across the labour history community. He was a visible presence for some sixty years. Although born in Glasgow, he was at heart a Shetlander. A man of the Iles who nevertheless admitted to having a love-hate relationship with them. But he never left them behind, always keeping in touch wherever he was through reading the island’s press. … Continue reading Willie Thompson (1939-2023)
The July 2023 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 2023
G.W.M. Reynolds emerged as a significant figure in London Chartism in the spring of 1848, and would later gain a substantial level of fame as the publisher of radical newspapers and author of gothic novels. In an evening meeting at London’s Bow Street Police Museum titled Writing Up a Storm in Paris and London: GWM Reynolds, Dickens’ Radical Rival on Thursday 20 July, Dr Jennifer … Continue reading Writing up a storm in Paris and London: G.W.M. Reynolds
The 2023 issue of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, is out now. Saothar 48 includes the following articles. Dominick Haugh – Limerick Pork Butchers’ Society – The Formative Years 1871-1890;Hugo McGuinness – William Graham, internationalism, and the 1886 Dublin Glass Bottle Makers Strike;Peter Murray – “Sweated Jewish Labour” and Garment Industry Trade Unions in Early 20th Century Dublin;Luke Crowley Holland – The Labour Movement in … Continue reading Saothar 48: Irish Labour History Society journal out now
This year’s Chartism Day was in Sheffield, with papers on the land plan, the poet Thomas Cooper, the ‘paper pantheon’, Chartism’s first historian of the modern era, and the lives of Chartists in France Held on Saturday 17 June, Chartism Day 2023 opened with a fitting tribute to Stephen Roberts – the organiser of the first such event in 1995, and a leading Chartist historian … Continue reading Chartism Day 2023 report: ‘You tyrants of England! Your race may soon be run…’
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