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Exhibition marks 200 years of trade union history

Two hundred years of trade union history is celebrated and commemorated in an exhibition now running at the LSE Library. Organised jointly by the London School of Economics and the TUC Libraries Collection at London Metropolitan Museum, the exhibition takes as its starting point the Combination Act of 1825 which permitted trade unions to organise but severely restricted their activities. The exhibition is built around … Continue reading Exhibition marks 200 years of trade union history

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Chartism Day 2025 report: landscape and the crowd, emancipation and revolution

Academic and independent historians, Chartist enthusiasts and the Chartism curious gathered in Huddersfield for the annual Chartism Day event, the latest in a series of conferences that first ran in 1993. With centuries of history as a site of working-class radicalism from Luddism to Owenite socialism and beyond, Huddersfield proved to be the ideal venue for Chartism Day 2025. Taking place at Heritage Quay, a … Continue reading Chartism Day 2025 report: landscape and the crowd, emancipation and revolution

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Marking the centenary of the General Strike

Next year marks one hundred years since the General Strike of 1926. The Society for the Study of Labour History is proud to be a part of a national partnership of fifteen museums, libraries and groups working together to commemorate the strike. Find out how you can support this partnership. This project is supported by: Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, Campaign for Trade … Continue reading Marking the centenary of the General Strike

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Charles Glyde’s The Bradford Socialist Vanguard is now available online

Researchers and labour historians can now get access to The Bradford Socialist Vanguard via The British Newspaper Archive. Launched in 1908 by its editor Charles Glyde, the paper was to ‘be run in the interest of the wage-earners’ as an alternative to ‘chaotic capitalism’. Originaly costing just one halfpenny as a monthly edition, it is available in two runs from 1908-10 and 1912-1920. The Bradford … Continue reading Charles Glyde’s The Bradford Socialist Vanguard is now available online

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Historical Studies in Industrial Relations: the General Strike of 1926

A special virtual issue of Historical Studies in Industrial Relations dealing with the General Strike and mining lockout of 1926 has been published to the Liverpool University Press website. Drawing on articles published in the journal over recent years, it includes an open access selective bibliography compiled by John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, Keith Laybourn, and Quentin Outram running to twenty-four pages. The virtual issue also … Continue reading Historical Studies in Industrial Relations: the General Strike of 1926

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Home Secretary sets up statutory inquiry into 1984 ‘Battle of Orgreave’

The government has announced an independent statutory inquiry into the 1984 ‘Battle of Orgreave’, a key event in the year-long miners’ strike during which thousands of police and miners clashed, leaving 120 people injured. In all, 95 pickets at the South Yorkshire coking plant were arrested and charged with riot and violent disorder. But all charges were dropped after evidence was discredited. There has since been … Continue reading Home Secretary sets up statutory inquiry into 1984 ‘Battle of Orgreave’

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Yorkshire Miners Association archives now indexed and catalogued online

Work at the Modern Records Centre to catalogue the archive of the Yorkshire Miners Association is now complete with a catalogue live online at the University of Warwick website. The catalogue also includes the records of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Yorkshire Area and represents a major and significant addition to the collection of NUM and coal mining material held by MRC and now … Continue reading Yorkshire Miners Association archives now indexed and catalogued online

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General Strike 100: planning for the centenary

As the centenary of the 1926 General Strike approaches, the Society for the Study of Labour History has joined a group of museums, libraries, archives, and history groups in a national collaboration to mark the occasion. The General Strike 100 project is working in partnership with the trade union and wider labour movement to develop an interactive map of sites for public visitation throughout 2026. This … Continue reading General Strike 100: planning for the centenary

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Gertrude Tuckwell and the Women’s Trade Union League papers online

From 1885 when she first arrived in London aged twenty-four to become secretary to her aunt, the writer, suffragette and trade unionist Emily Dilke, until her retirement in January 1921, Gertrude Tuckwell was among the most prominent and influential figures in the women’s trade union movement. In nearly four decades of activism, she first became active in the Women’s Trade Union League, serving as its … Continue reading Gertrude Tuckwell and the Women’s Trade Union League papers online

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Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 2024 now online

The latest issue of Historical Studies in Industrial Relations (Vol. 45, September 1, 2024) is now available online via Liverpool University Press (subscription required). Table of contents Research ArticlesSmashing the Subversive Unemployed: State Containment and Coercion of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, 1921–39Emanuel Bourges Espinosa Nancy Seear and the Investigation of Women’s EmploymentSusan Milner The British Labour Movement’s Involvement in West Indian Labour Struggles, 1934–39: … Continue reading Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 2024 now online

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