The SSLH publishes the book series Studies in Labour History in association with Liverpool University Press. We also publish book reviews in our journal, the Labour History Review.
The articles below draw attention to new books, reports, pamphlets, and online publications and projects of interest to labour historians.
Tom Paine was one of the great figures of the enlightenment. Norfolk-born but exiled from his English homeland for his radicalism, he took up arms in America for the cause of independence, and narrowly escaped execution in revolutionary France, where he served as a member of the National Convention. Today he is widely remembered and celebrated as the author of Common Sense and The Rights … Continue reading Tom Paine: a fantastical visual biography
Two new books are being added to the SSLH Studies in Labour History series this autumn. Published in association with Liverpool University Press, this series now runs to nineteen books. Continue reading From the seafarers of the Asia-Pacific to Scottish factory work-ins: books for 2022
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
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
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
Book: Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D Palmer, Marxism, and History Continue reading Essays on Bryan D Palmer, Marxism, and History
Irish and Jewish migrants in East London, their children and grandchildren provided fertile ground for the emergence of the mass unionisation of unskilled labour, says Dr Daniel Renshaw, author of Socialism and the Diasporic ‘Other’ Continue reading Solidarity and suspicion: Irish Catholic and Jewish radical politics in East London
Edda Nicolson offers a reading list and guide to sources for labour historians interested in the topic and methodologies of emotions history Continue reading Labour History and the Emotions: a Bibliography
Far from being ‘ruffians officered by gentlemen’, the British army of the nineteenth century was made up of a typical cross-section of working-class men whose military lives mirrored those of the civilian working class, says Nick Mansfield, author of Soldiers as Workers – Class, Employment, Conflict and the Nineteenth-Century Military. As a labour historian, I have always retained a slightly odd interest in military history. … Continue reading Soldiers as workers: working-class life and conflict in the British army of the nineteenth century
Histories of the transition from war to peace at the end of the First World War tend to focus on the role of statesmen and imperial powers. Now a new book in the Studies in Labour History Series aims to re-examine the year 1919 from below, as its editor, Dr Matt Perry explains Continue reading The Global Challenge of Peace: introducing book 17 in the Studies in Labour History series
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