Tag: British Empire

Events, Grants

Roundtable report: the politics of overseas labour migrations from India

Pritam Singh reports on the roundtable event ‘Freedom and Whatever that Means: A History of the Politics of Overseas Labour Migrations from India c1833-1967’. Following the abolition of slavery in 1833, colonial India was the largest supplier of labour not just to the British but also to French and Dutch colonies. Whether as convicts, as indentured workers on five-year contracts, or under debt bondage to … Continue reading Roundtable report: the politics of overseas labour migrations from India

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Bursary reports, Research bursaries

The Labour Party and empire in the 1940s

Jack Taylor reports on his research into 1940s’ attitudes to empire in the Labour Party policy apparatus and among the leading Labour figures of the era. In researching the Labour Party’s post-war imperial policy in the Middle East, I became interested in ideas around British expertise and experience in shaping political institutions. A Society for the Study of Labour History research bursary allowed me to … Continue reading The Labour Party and empire in the 1940s

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Legacies of colonialism and enslavement: HistoryLab+ annual conference 2024

The organisers of this year’s HistoryLab+ conference report back from an event focused on human exploitation and its legacies. The day was supported by the Society for the Study of Labour History. This year’s HistoryLab+ conference took place at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), and focused on the histories of human exploitation and its legacies. The event took place … Continue reading Legacies of colonialism and enslavement: HistoryLab+ annual conference 2024

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Labour History Review

Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 89 (2024), Issue 2

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (2). Read more. Thomas Fleischman reviews Leigh Claire La Berge, Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, pp. 416, p/b, $27.95, 978 14780 19251 Stephen Hopkins reviews Brigitte Studer, Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International, London and New York: Verso, 2023, pp. 476 + xiv, h/b, £30.00, … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 89 (2024), Issue 2

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Books etc, Labour history news

Labour history books in paperback

Two more books in the Studies in Labour History series will soon be published in paperback. The series is published by the Society in association with Liverpool University Press and currently includes nineteen books. Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s-1960s, by Yann Béliard and Professor Neville Kirk, is due out on 1 March 2024. An important contribution to … Continue reading Labour history books in paperback

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Bursary reports, Research bursaries

Gregory Billam (Edge Hill University) on the CPGB, the Historians’ Group and the CPA between 1946-1956

My thesis focuses on the Communist Party of Great Britain’s British Road to Socialism (1951) within a wider international context of ‘national roads to socialism’, in which communist parties were told to adapt to ‘national’ circumstances. My research examines the British party’s ‘road to socialism’ at the British Empire’s centre, and that of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) at its periphery in the early … Continue reading Gregory Billam (Edge Hill University) on the CPGB, the Historians’ Group and the CPA between 1946-1956

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‘Uncomradely and Un-communist’: Breakdown in the Communist Anglosphere? The Communist Party of Great Britain and Communist Party of Australia Debate, 1947–1948

Author: Gregory BillamThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (1), 43-74. Read more. 2022 LABOUR HISTORY REVIEW ESSAY PRIZE WINNER The communist parties of Britain’s empire were notably excluded from the newly established Cominform in September 1947. In their absence, previous hierarchical relationships became less clear, as the fiery exchange between the CPA (Australia) and CPGB (Great Britain) … Continue reading ‘Uncomradely and Un-communist’: Breakdown in the Communist Anglosphere? The Communist Party of Great Britain and Communist Party of Australia Debate, 1947–1948

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Events

Labour and Empire seminar series

The European Labour History Network (ELHN) Labour & Empire Working Group is organising a series of seminars for 2022-2023. Seminars will be at 4pm UK time/5pm Central European time on Zoom. They will last one and a half hours, with up to 45 minutes of presentation and 45 minutes of Q&A. To receive the Zoom link of the events and for any information, please contact the group organisers at: … Continue reading Labour and Empire seminar series

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