More than 250 people signed up for a free online session on disaster planning for archivists and librarians hosted by the Marx Memorial Library on behalf of the Society for the Study of Labour History’s archives and resources committee. The event, which took place on 5 February 2020, was in part an opportunity to reflect on lessons learnt from the flood that hit the Marx … Continue reading Disaster planning for archivists and librarians
The Society for the Study of Labour History and Marx Memorial Library have created a resource pack and guide to sources on the history of the Communist Party. Compiled by the Society’s Archives and Resources Committee, the guide includes information on the major archives and their holdings on this topic. The pack was originally published to coincide with an online conference marking the centenary of … Continue reading Sources on the Communist Party
This fact sheet on sources for the history of unemployment and the unemployed was created to coincide with a conference titled ‘From the Blanketeers to the Present: Understanding Protests of the Unemployed’, German Historical Institute, on 16 and 17 February 2007. It was updated in April 2019 and reissued in September 2024. The guide includes information on the major archives and thier holdings on this … Continue reading Sources for the History of Unemployment
The Society for the Study of Labour History has created a resource pack and guide to sources on the Peterloo massacre of 1819. Compiled by the Society’s Archives and Resources Committee, the guide includes information on the major archives and their holdings on this topic. Download it in PDF format. Find out more about the SSLH-Archives and Resources Committee. Continue reading Sources for the Peterloo Massacre
The Society for the Study of Labour History produced a fact sheet on sources for the history of the Parliamentary Labour Party to coincide with the Parliamentary Labour Party Centenary Conference, London South Bank University, 24-25 November 2006. The guide was updated April 2019 and reissued in September 2024. Compiled by the Society’s Archives and Resources Committee, the guide includes information on the major archives … Continue reading Sources for the Parliamentary Labour Party
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