Scottish Labour History out now
The 2021 edition of the Scottish Labour History Society’s peer-reviewed journal Scottish Labour History is out now Continue reading Scottish Labour History out now
All books half price till 31 December
Liverpool University Press is offering 50% off all its books when you order online between now and 31 December 2021. This includes everything in the Studies in Labour History series published with the Society for the Study of Labour History. Follow this link and use code WINTER21 at checkout. Continue reading All books half price till 31 December
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations: indexes from 1996 onwards are now online
Indexes to Historical Studies in Industrial Relations are now available on the SSLH website Continue reading Historical Studies in Industrial Relations: indexes from 1996 onwards are now online
TUC Library Collections card index goes online
The TUC Library Collections are a vital resource for labour history research, and pretty much everything added to the collections since the contents of the TUC Library moved to London Metropolitan University in 1996 has been added to the university’s online catalogue. But the great bulk of material collected since the library was founded in 1922, perhaps as much of 80% of everything there, is … Continue reading TUC Library Collections card index goes online
Stuart Macintyre 1947 – 2021
We are sorry to hear that the eminent Australian socialist and labour historian Stuart Macintyre has died aged 74. Professor Macintyre published extensively on the history of Australia and the Australian Left, and as co-author of The History Wars (2003) provided the leading academic challenge to conservative narratives of the country’s history. For many, however, his greatest work is his account of the emergence of … Continue reading Stuart Macintyre 1947 – 2021
The Political Thought of Thomas Spence: book launch
Thomas Spence as an English radical renowned for his ‘Plan’ to abolish private ownership of land and replace state institutions with a decentralised parochial organisation. A new book examines his political thought Continue reading The Political Thought of Thomas Spence: book launch
SSLH annual lecture 2021. Professor Máire Fedelma Cross: Flora Tristan and Jules Puech, a double biography
The French writer and activist Flora Tristan (1803-1844) was an important and original thinker noteworthy for her synthesis of feminism and socialism. But she died aged just 41, and left relatively little published work. Jules Puech (1879-1957) rediscovered Tristan as a postgraduate student in Paris in the early 1900s and subsequently devoted decades of his life to researching her life and work, publishing a detailed … Continue reading SSLH annual lecture 2021. Professor Máire Fedelma Cross: Flora Tristan and Jules Puech, a double biography
SSLH annual general meeting 2021
The annual general meeting of the Society for the Study of Labour History for 2021 took place online on Wednesday 24 November at 7pm. Dr Joan Allen was in the chair. The meeting received reports and ratified the election of officers for the period 2021-2023. Documentation presented to the meeting can be found in Members’ Resources (password protected). Continue reading SSLH annual general meeting 2021
Radical ambition: Ramsay MacDonald and the 1895 general election
David Hanson reflects on the political trajectory of a firebrand would-be Labour MP whose early radical ambitions were set out during his first foray into electoral politics in 1895 James Ramsay MacDonald fought his first parliamentary election in 1895. The Independent Labour Party had been founded just two years earlier, and though not a founder member, MacDonald had joined early on after gaining political experience … Continue reading Radical ambition: Ramsay MacDonald and the 1895 general election
An Ownerless Corner of Earth: songs to lift the spirits
Mike Mecham introduces a double CD of songs by Francis Devine, a published Irish labour historian, poet, singer and songwriter from Howth, County Dublin. A former President, and now Honorary President, of the Irish Labour History Society and editor of its journal Saothar, Francis Devine remains actively involved in the labour movement An Ownerless Corner of Earth is the second offering from Howth based singer Francis Devine. His first … Continue reading An Ownerless Corner of Earth: songs to lift the spirits
