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.
Bursary reports, MA & BA bursaries

Thomas Ottley (Edge Hill) visits the Searchlight archive to research the ideology of the National Front

The bursary from the Society for the Study of Labour History allowed me to complete research for my dissertation project that I am undertaking at Edge Hill University. My dissertation assesses how the National Front sought to sell their ideology to difference audiences, with a particular focus on working-class votes. Specifically, it examines how the party used Spearhead (the National Front’s mouthpiece journal) to build … Continue reading Thomas Ottley (Edge Hill) visits the Searchlight archive to research the ideology of the National Front

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Grants

COVID-19 Collecting: #AllStoriesAreImportant

The SSLH is delighted to support – through a grant – an important project currently underway at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre & Education Trust, Manchester, UK. The Centre is seeking to record the voices and stories of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people during the COVID-19 pandemic, who have been found to be disproportionately impacted by the disease. They are actively seeking donations of digitised documents … Continue reading COVID-19 Collecting: #AllStoriesAreImportant

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Obituaries

Peter Michael Jackson (1928-2020)

Peter Jackson, who died on 19 February in Panama, born on 14 October 1928 in Sheffield, was a member of the Society for the Study of Labour History from 1961 until at least 1968. At the time of joining, Peter was studying at the University of Liverpool in the Department of Social Science, which is where he registered for a PhD, eventually completed as’ Some … Continue reading Peter Michael Jackson (1928-2020)

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Labour History Review

Communism in Cold War Belfast, 1945–1962

Author: Patrick SmylieThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2020), 85, (1), 59–83. Find out more. This article traces the history of communism in Belfast from 1945 to 1962. Beginning with an assessment of the local Communist Party’s strength and ambitions in the immediate post-war period, it examines rapid membership decline and deteriorating relations with the Northern Ireland Labour Party, suggesting … Continue reading Communism in Cold War Belfast, 1945–1962

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Labour History Review

‘The Question of Pratt’: A Syndicalist Conundrum

Author: Rosalind EybenThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2020), 85, (1), 33–58. Find out more. This article takes a reflexive approach in a case study of the dubious career of a syndicalist trade unionist and journalist just before and during the First World War. E.L. Pratt was an elusive trickster and a convincing (self-) publicist, who between 1914 and 1918 … Continue reading ‘The Question of Pratt’: A Syndicalist Conundrum

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Labour History Review

‘Glorious Auxiliaries’? Gender, Participation, and Subordination in the Chartist Movement (1838–1851)

Author: Emmanuelle MourneThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2020), 85, (1), 7–32. Find out more. In his famous poem ‘Woman’s Mission’, published in 1856, Chartist leader William Lovett extolled the moral virtues of women not only for the care of their families but also for society in general. At the heart of Lovett’s political strategy was an ambitious educational programme … Continue reading ‘Glorious Auxiliaries’? Gender, Participation, and Subordination in the Chartist Movement (1838–1851)

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Obituaries

Malcolm Chase (1957-2020)

Malcolm Chase, who has died aged 63, will be best remembered as the leading historian of Chartism. More than this, he was the foremost historian of all kinds of popular radicalism and labour movement activity in late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain, rescuing the reputation of agrarian radicalism and charting the development of early trade unionism as far back as the seventeenth century, a period into … Continue reading Malcolm Chase (1957-2020)

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Labour History Review, SSLH news

2019 SSLH Postgraduate Essay Prize winner announced

Calum Aikman, winner of the society’s Annual LHR Postgraduate Essay prize, had his article published in Labour History Review. The article is entitled “From Labourism to Thatcherism: Stephen Haseler and the Social Democratic Alliance”. It is available here. Photo: Chair of the Society of the Study of Labour History, Joan Allen, handing over the cheque associated with the prize. Continue reading 2019 SSLH Postgraduate Essay Prize winner announced

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Bursary reports, Research bursaries

Shaun Pitt (Northumbria) on the Anarchist Movement in Britain

My thesis focuses on intersections between Britain’s anarchist movement and its fledgling ‘New Liberal’ movement at the turn of the twentieth century. ‘New Liberalism’ is a term used to describe the new wave of British liberalism that was more radical, communal and interested in state intervention. At the same time Britain’s anarchist movement was enjoying one of its greatest periods of mainstream popularity and distribution. … Continue reading Shaun Pitt (Northumbria) on the Anarchist Movement in Britain

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