Author: Keith LaybournThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (1). Read more. Professor John Samuel Shepherd has been one of the leading historians of British Labour history and of the British Labour Party for more than thirty years. He was something of a late developer who felt that he had had to overcome the constraints of his working-class background to pursue … Continue reading Professor John Samuel Shepherd (5 May 1942–20 November 2024): A Reflection

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)

Richard Croucher, who died aged seventy-three on 16 December 2022, was a versatile scholar and talented labour historian who became well known as a teacher and researcher of employment relations, international trade unionism, and management studies. He played a prominent part in the field of labour history from the mid-1970s into the 1990s. His books Engineers at War and We Refuse to Starve in Silence constituted a significant contribution … Continue reading A Scholarly Life: Richard Croucher (1949-2022)