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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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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

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Liverpool University Press summer sale

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

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Vale Rawlings: recovering the lost story of a Burton upon Trent trade unionist

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

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