Protected: SSLH AGM 2021
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News and information about the Society for the Study of Labour History and its activities.
LHR postgraduate essay prize 2022
Postgraduates are encouraged to submit articles for consideration for the 2022 essay prize to the editors of Labour History Review. This annual prize awards £500 for the best essay, which will be published in the LHR. The essay prize is open to anyone currently registered for a higher research degree, in Britain or abroad, or to anyone who completed such a degree no earlier than February 2019. … Continue reading LHR postgraduate essay prize 2022
Funding round for 2021 BME history projects now closed
The 2021 funding round for the Joint BME Events and Activities Small Grants scheme designed to support Black and Minority Ethnic history in the UK has now closed. Grants of up to £1,000 for available for eligible projects, and the deadline for applications was 12 November 2021. The scheme is administered by the Social History Society in partnership with the Society for the Study of … Continue reading Funding round for 2021 BME history projects now closed
The Global Challenge of Peace: introducing book 17 in the Studies in Labour History series
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
Fifty years a labour historian: SSLH President Keith Laybourn on half a century at Huddersfield University
As a school leaver, Keith Laybourn was told, “Don’t be too ambitious”. This year, the SSLH President marks thirty years as a professor and fifty as an academic at the University of Huddersfield. We asked him about a lifetime in labour history Continue reading Fifty years a labour historian: SSLH President Keith Laybourn on half a century at Huddersfield University
SSLH statement: We fear for the future of labour history, labour historians and the next generation of students
The Society for the Study of Labour History is shocked to learn that History courses are set to close at a number of post-92 universities. As a Society, we stand with our members and colleagues who now face the threat of redundancies; and we look for a return to the educational principles and ethos that made the study of people’s history a realistic expectation for all. Continue reading SSLH statement: We fear for the future of labour history, labour historians and the next generation of students
Celebrating labour history through the songs and music of the River Thames
Art and culture are inseparable from labour history, as a GFTU Educational Trust CD on the story of the River Thames from the Nore Mutiny to the Empire Windrush demonstrates, writes SSLH EC member Mike Sanders. Continue reading Celebrating labour history through the songs and music of the River Thames
Treasures from the index: mapping six decades of labour history research
We have now completed the indexing of the SSLH Bulletin and Labour History Review, publishing the final part online. This article looks at some of the treasures to be found in its pages. Continue reading Treasures from the index: mapping six decades of labour history research
SSLH backs campaign to save Luddite pub from demolition
An 18th century pub that played a central part in the story of Luddism in West Yorkshire faces demolition after plans to replace it with housing were submitted to the local council. The Shears Inn at Liversedge was host to regular gatherings of local croppers at the start of the 19th century, and in early 1812 was the venue for a meeting at which plans … Continue reading SSLH backs campaign to save Luddite pub from demolition
Workers of the Empire Unite: introducing book 15 in the Studies in Labour History series
Co-editor Yann Béliard introduces the latest volume in the Studies in Labour History book series. In most studies of British decolonisation, the world of labour is neglected, the key roles being allocated to metropolitan statesmen and native elites. Instead this volume focuses on the role played by working people, their experiences, initiatives and organisations, in the dissolution of the British Empire, both in the metropole … Continue reading Workers of the Empire Unite: introducing book 15 in the Studies in Labour History series
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