Category: Labour History Review

Articles featuring the SSLH journal Labour History Review, including abstracts of articles, and the LHR essay prize.

Labour History Review

Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), issue 1

Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), Issue 1 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats. The Labour Party has always struggled with the need to balance its internationalist principles with policy administration its immigration and refugee policy. Here, Eunjae Park looks at the 1919 Aliens Act in the context of post-war internationalism, and contends that the change in focus from … Continue reading Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), issue 1

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Patriotic Internationalists and Free Immigration: The British Labour Party’s Internationalism in Debates on Immigration Restriction, 1918–1931

Author:  Eunjae ParkThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (1), 1-20. Read more. As highlighted in the recent controversies over European immigrants and the refugee ‘crisis’ that culminated in Brexit, Labour’s struggle in balancing its internationalist principles with policy administration has been a constant theme in the party’s immigration and refugee policy. This article situates the Labour Party’s discussion on the 1919 … Continue reading Patriotic Internationalists and Free Immigration: The British Labour Party’s Internationalism in Debates on Immigration Restriction, 1918–1931

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In Defence of Steel: The Expulsion of Alfred Edwards MP and His Campaign against Steel Nationalization, 1948–1951

Author: Christopher MasseyThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (1), 21-46. Read more. Alfred Edwards, MP for Middlesbrough East from 1935 to 1950, has been subject to only cursory academic attention during the lifetime of the 1945–51 Labour governments. Consequently, this article provides the first detailed study of Edwards’s parliamentary career. It is argued that Edwards was a significant national figure … Continue reading In Defence of Steel: The Expulsion of Alfred Edwards MP and His Campaign against Steel Nationalization, 1948–1951

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2023 Labour History Review Essay Prize Winner

Author: Manuel Herrera CrespoThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (3), 47-72. Read more. ‘Porque no ha cambiado nada’: The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the End of the Cold War The relatively new bundle of scholarship gathered under the notion of a ‘global 1989’ has produced an innovative field of research that highlights the necessity of a global … Continue reading 2023 Labour History Review Essay Prize Winner

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Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 89 (2024), Issue 1

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (1), 73-93. Read more. Mike Mecham reviews John Cunningham, Francis Devine, and Sonja Tiernan (eds), Labour History in Irish History: Essays Celebrating Fifty Years of the Irish Labour History Society, Dublin: Umiskin Press, 2023, pp. 451, p/b, £25, ISBN 978 18381 11212 Martin Spence reviews Michael Tichelar, Labour in the Suburbs: Political Change in Croydon during the Twentieth … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 89 (2024), Issue 1

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Labour History Review index 2023

The three issues of Labour History Review published in 2023 have now been indexed and the index is available on the website. The update provides separate Word and PDF documents for volume 88, and includes an update to the consolidated Excel spreadsheet which now covers volumes 55 to 88 (1990-2023) inclusive. Labour History Review index. Access to the LHR index is available without charge. Find … Continue reading Labour History Review index 2023

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Labour History Review Volume 88 (2023), issue 3

Labour History Review Volume 88 (2023), Issue 3 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats. Through here role as Chief Woman Officer, Marion Phillips was already a significant figure in the Labour Party when she became Sunderland’s first female MP in 1929. In this issue of Labour History Review, Sarah Hellawell argues that Phillips’ relatively brief time as … Continue reading Labour History Review Volume 88 (2023), issue 3

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How British was Larkinism? Big Jim Larkin and the British Labour Movement, 1907–1914

Author: Emmet O’ConnorThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (3), 199-219. Read more. Born in Liverpool in 1874, Big Jim Larkin always insisted that he was Irish. No historian has ever challenged him on the claim, or seen him as anything other than a uniquely Irish figure. And yet there was a British dimension to Larkin’s outlook. Liverpool gave him a … Continue reading How British was Larkinism? Big Jim Larkin and the British Labour Movement, 1907–1914

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‘Sunderland Has Lost a Figure That Will Go Down in History’: Marion Phillips in the North East of England, 1923–1932

Author: Sarah HellawellThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (3), 221-243. Read more. Selected as the Labour Party’s chief woman officer in 1918, Dr Marion Phillips played a prominent role in the British labour women’s movement before, during and after the Great War. However, her brief stint as Labour MP for Sunderland between 1929 and 1931 has not attracted the same … Continue reading ‘Sunderland Has Lost a Figure That Will Go Down in History’: Marion Phillips in the North East of England, 1923–1932

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Of Red Flags and Red Dragons: Welsh Labour History in Retrospect and Prospect

Author: Martin WrightThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (3), 245-272. Read more. Welsh labour historiography has been dominated by the history of the south Wales miners, with the north Wales quarrymen occupying second place, and other groups of workers having received less attention. This is partly due to the dominant assumptions of labour historians which are tied up with ideas … Continue reading Of Red Flags and Red Dragons: Welsh Labour History in Retrospect and Prospect

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