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Labour History Review is published three times a year by the Society for the Study of Labour History in association with Liverpool University Press.

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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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Obituary: Dick Geary (1945–2021)

Author: Chris WrigleyThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (3), 273-278. Read more. Richard John Geary was born in Leicester on 17 December 1945. He was a historian of international reputation. He spent much time in Germany, Australia, and Brazil. ‘Dick Geary legend – once met, never forgotten’, as Ian Kershaw put it at the start of his oration at Dick’s … Continue reading Obituary: Dick Geary (1945–2021)

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Book reviews in Labour History Review Volume 88 (2023), Issue 3

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (3), 279-293. Read more. Hester Barron reviews Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison Moulds (eds), Feelings and Work in Modern History: Emotional Labour and Emotions about Labour, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, pp. xii + 265, h/b, £85, ISBN 978 13501 97183 Micaela Panes reviews Daryl Leeworthy, Causes in Common: Welsh Women and the Struggle for Social Democracy, Cardiff: University of Wales … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review Volume 88 (2023), Issue 3

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LHR postgraduate essay prize 2024

Submissions are now open for the Labour History Review essay prize 2024. The competition is open to anyone currently registered for a higher research degree, in Britain or abroad, or to anyone who completed such a degree within the timeframe set out in the rules. 👉 Download the entry form and rules. The cash prize for this year’s winner has been substantially increased by the … Continue reading LHR postgraduate essay prize 2024

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Society names Labour History Review essay prize winners for 2023

The 2023 Labour History Review essay prize has been awarded to Manuel Herrera Crespo, PhD researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, for his essay ‘Porque no ha cambiado nada: The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the end of the Cold War’. The judges commented that this was: ‘A well-crafted, persuasive analysis… Meticulously researched.’ The prize includes an award of £500. John Russell, teaching associate at Queen Mary … Continue reading Society names Labour History Review essay prize winners for 2023

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