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Sources for Co-operative History in the UK

The Society for the Study of Labour History has created a guide to sources for co-operative history in the UK. Compiled by the Society’s Archives and Resources Committee, the guide includes information on the major archives and their holdings on this topic. First published December 2025. The guide aims to help researchers find material relating to the co-operative movement across UK archives and museums. It … Continue reading Sources for Co-operative History in the UK

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Sources for the 1984-85 miners’ strike

The Society for the Study of Labour History has created a resource pack and guide to sources on the history of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. Compiled by the Society’s Archives and Resources Committee, the guide includes information on the major archives and their holdings on this topic. Updated February 2025. Download it in PDF format. Find out more about the SSLH-Archives and Resources Committee. Continue reading Sources for the 1984-85 miners’ strike

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Sources on the Communist Party

The Society for the Study of Labour History and Marx Memorial Library have created a resource pack and guide to sources on the history of the Communist Party. Compiled by the Society’s Archives and Resources Committee, the guide includes information on the major archives and their holdings on this topic. The pack was originally published to coincide with an online conference marking the centenary of … Continue reading Sources on the Communist Party

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Sources for the History of Unemployment

This fact sheet on sources for the history of unemployment and the unemployed was created to coincide with a conference titled ‘From the Blanketeers to the Present: Understanding Protests of the Unemployed’, German Historical Institute, on 16 and 17 February 2007. It was updated in April 2019 and reissued in September 2024. The guide includes information on the major archives and thier holdings on this … Continue reading Sources for the History of Unemployment

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Sources for the Peterloo Massacre

The Society for the Study of Labour History has created a resource pack and guide to sources on the Peterloo massacre of 1819. Compiled by the Society’s Archives and Resources Committee, the guide includes information on the major archives and their holdings on this topic. Download it in PDF format. Find out more about the SSLH-Archives and Resources Committee. Continue reading Sources for the Peterloo Massacre

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Sources for the Parliamentary Labour Party

The Society for the Study of Labour History produced a fact sheet on sources for the history of the Parliamentary Labour Party to coincide with the Parliamentary Labour Party Centenary Conference, London South Bank University, 24-25 November 2006. The guide was updated April 2019 and reissued in September 2024. Compiled by the Society’s Archives and Resources Committee, the guide includes information on the major archives … Continue reading Sources for the Parliamentary Labour Party

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