Category: Grants

The SSLH offers financial support for conferences and public events with a focus on labour history. Articles here concern the grant scheme and reports on events supported by it.

Events, Grants

How Oldham found the funny thanks to Sam Fitton

Funding from the Society for the Study of Labour History helped to enable Gallery Oldham to take working-class history and Lancashire dialect to new audiences, as Karen Heatley explains. This year marks the centenary of Sam Fitton’s death. Fitton was fun-loving and multi-talented, his career started in the local textile mills but he went on to make a living as a skilled illustrator, poet, dialect … Continue reading How Oldham found the funny thanks to Sam Fitton

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Report: Working-class Anti-imperialism and the Global Left: New Directions of Study

The Labour and Empire Working Group has held conferences and other events for nearly ten years as part of the European Labour History Network (ELHN). In 2023, the Group held a one-day conference titled ‘Working-class Anti-imperialism and the Global Left: New Directions of Study’ at the University of Bristol, which we were able to attend thanks to travel bursaries made possible by the Society for … Continue reading Report: Working-class Anti-imperialism and the Global Left: New Directions of Study

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Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Sciences: Finding Customs in Common?

Call for papers: a workshop on Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Science is to take place at the University of Strathclyde in November 2023. Contributions are invited from academic researchers, practitioners, and activists. Abstracts of 250 words are due by 31 August. The event is supported by the Society for the Study of Labour History and the University of Strathclyde. Download … Continue reading Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Sciences: Finding Customs in Common?

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Compassion and care: emotions and experience in the care of children through history

Kate Gibson reports on a conference that explored the richness and diversity of current research into experiences of care, and the need for researchers to reflect on the way they approach and interpret archives of care. The Society for the Study of Labour History funded five bursaries to enable postgraduates to attend the conference ‘Compassion and Care: Emotions and Experience in the Care of Children … Continue reading Compassion and care: emotions and experience in the care of children through history

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Bursary reports, Grants

The Indian Factories Act 1881 and workers’ rights

Pressure to limit working hours in India’s textile factories came from a variety of sources, as Suramya Thekke Kalathil explains. I received a grant from the Society for the Study of Labour History to attend the European Social Science History Conference at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference was jointly organized by the International Institute of Social History and University of Gothenburg and took … Continue reading The Indian Factories Act 1881 and workers’ rights

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Ascott Martyrs 150th anniversary events

Early in 1873, farmworkers who had formed a branch of the National Agricultural Labourers Union at Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire were dismissed and strikebreakers from a neighbouring village brought in. Sixteen women from Ascott who tried to persuade the strike-breakers to switch sides and join the union were arrested, tried and sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour. In the uproar that followed, the women received a … Continue reading Ascott Martyrs 150th anniversary events

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Finding the Funny: Sam Fitton and the Cotton Factory Times

Sam Fitton made his name as an insightful and funny cartoonist for the Cotton Factory Times, an immensely successful newspaper aimed at workers in Lancashire and Cheshire cotton mills which at its peak sold more than 50,000 copies a week. Beginning in 1907, Fitton would eventually contribute more than 400 cartoons for the paper, creating a unique visual record of the cotton industry, its workers … Continue reading Finding the Funny: Sam Fitton and the Cotton Factory Times

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BME small grants scheme backs six projects

Congratulations to this year’s successful applicants to the BME small grants funding scheme. The scheme provides small grants of up to £1,000 to support Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) historians working in the UK and/or on histories of BME people. The successful projects from the 2022 round are: The scheme is administered by the Social History Society in partnership with the Economic History Society, History … Continue reading BME small grants scheme backs six projects

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Strike! The story of the Dunnes Stores strikers…

Ardent Theatre Company presents STRIKE! By Tracy Ryan and directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward. Dunne’s Stores, Dublin, July 1984: a South African grapefruit starts something that will take nearly three years to finish… It’s a hot, hot summer and Frankie Goes to Hollywood are riding high in the charts. At Dunne’s Store, shop assistant Mary Manning refuses to ring up a grapefruit, sticking to her … Continue reading Strike! The story of the Dunnes Stores strikers…

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Funding round for 2022 BME history projects now closed

The Joint BME Small Grants Scheme is now closed for applications. The deadline for the current round of grants was 1 December 2022. The scheme provides small grants of up to £1,000 to support Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) historians working in the UK and/or on histories of BME people. Funding can be used to support directly incurred research costs and/or events and activities. We … Continue reading Funding round for 2022 BME history projects now closed

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