Labour History Review is published three times a year by the Society for the Study of Labour History in association with Liverpool University Press.
Labour History Review Volume 91 (2026), Issue 2 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats. In this issue . . . Lewis James Willcox, ‘Class, Community, and the Labour Unrest in Rural Scotland: Establishing the Scottish Farm Servants’ Union’, pp 1-19. Read more: Kevin Morgan, ‘Out of the Shadow of Bevin and Mann: A.A. Purcell and the General … Continue reading Labour History Review Volume 91 (2026), issue 2
Author: Lorenzo Costaguta, Justine Cousin, Camille Fauroux, and Thomas van GaalenThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. This essay introduces the key themes of the special issue Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals, edited by Lorenzo Costaguta, Justine Cousin, Camille Fauroux, and Thomas van Gaalen. The authors review existing scholarship on left-wing anti-imperialism and detail the interventions of … Continue reading Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals
Author: Thomas van Gaalen and Thijs te BraakeThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. Centring Dutch leftist expressions of solidarity with two anti-colonial revolts – the 1926 Indonesian revolt and an attempted 1929 Curaçaoan revolution – this article examines how leftists in the European metropole sold solidarity with anti-colonialism across different political arenas and organizational levels. Relating their … Continue reading Selling Solidarity: Interwar Dutch Leftist Negotiations over Anti-Colonial Solidarity
Author: Guillaume GenoudThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. This article examines how Corsican nationalism reshaped trade union practice through the Sindicatu di i Travagliadori Corsi (Corsican Workers’ Union, STC), founded in 1984 after local activists broke with mainstream French confederations. Drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it traces the STC’s evolving stance toward immigration and non-Corsican workers … Continue reading Conditional Universalism: Immigration and Nationalist Trade Unionism in 1980s Corsica
Author: Manaswini SenThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. This paper examines how the empire’s hysteria against militant trade unionism and its anti-colonial essence lay at the root of the colonial state’s proliferation of surveillance apparatus in late colonial Bengal. It primarily focuses on how the state censored, proscribed, and surveilled the literary output of trade unionists and other … Continue reading The Spectre of Communism: Print Surveillance in the Working-Class Movement of Late Colonial Calcutta (1920–1947)
Author: Camille Fauroux and Fatma Çıngı KocadostThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. In the 1970s, young activists of the Turkish revolutionary left found themselves in France as refugees, students, or workers. Amongst them, members of Devrimci Yol (Revolutionary Way), galvanized by the intensity of the struggles in Turkey, decided to do their bit by organizing migrant workers … Continue reading The Sentier Strike in Paris (1980): The Mobilization of Immigrant Workers as an Anti-Imperialist Struggle
Author: Adrien RoddThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. The Labour Party in Britain achieved its first ever absolute parliamentary majority in the 1945 general election, at the tail end of the Second World War. Historically a socialist and internationalist party founded with the aim of providing parliamentary representation to trade unionists and the working class, Labour formed … Continue reading Britain’s Labour Party and the Anti-Colonial Labour Movement in Fiji (1945–1970)
The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read the reviews. Matthew Stibbe reviews Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian, London and New York: Verso, 2025, pp. x + 308, h/b, £35, ISBN 978 18397 60778 Bill Longshaw reviews Nick Mansfield and Martin Wright, Made by Labour, A Material and Visual History of British Labour c.1780–1924, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 90 (2025), Issue 3
We are pleased to announce that Labour History Review is celebrating the publication of its 90th edition. Published in association with Liverpool University Press, alongside the book series Studies in Labour History, LHR and its predecessor, the Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, has since 1960 explored the working lives and politics of ‘ordinary’ people and has played a key role in redefining social and political history. … Continue reading Labour History Review celebrates 90th edition
Professor Peter Gurney will deliver the fourth John L. Halstead Memorial Lecture at the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, on Saturday 14 June 2025. He will be speaking on ‘The Chartist Revolution’. Book a free ticket for this event. The lecture is held annually in memory of the late John Halstead, who was among the earliest members of the Society for the Study of Labour … Continue reading John Halstead Memorial Lecture 2025: reserve your place
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