It has been a big year for labour history journals with both the North West History Journal and Saothar marking their fiftieth issues, and Scottish Labour History publishing its sixtieth edition. This roundup looks at the latest journals published by: Scotland Introducing the 2025 issue of Scottish Labour History, Stewart Maclennan, chair of the Scottish Labour History Society notes that this year sees both the … Continue reading Labour history journals 2025
Labour history societies throughout the UK and beyond have published the year-end editions of their journals for 2025. Here we offer a summary of their contents. The round-up includes the journals of : North West Labour History SocietyNorth East Labour History SocietyScottish Labour History SocietyIrish Labour History SocietyAustralian Labour History Society North West History Journal – North West Labour History Society The front cover of … Continue reading Labour history journals round-up, 2024
In 2012, Ian Gasse came to live in Dumfries and Galloway, settling in the Kirkcudbrightshire village of Kirkpatrick Durham. Then aged 64, Ian was guided by several impulses, but retirement as we know it was surely not among them. In his new location, Ian found the local bus service facilitated his genius for connection. It was at a bus stop that he first met his … Continue reading Ian Andrew Gasse (1948 – 2024): an appreciation
The Scottish Labour History Society has published seven videos from its John Maclean Centenary Conference to its YouTube channel. Continue reading Conference videos: John Maclean, Celtic Communism and Red Clydeside
The 2024 Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture takes place at the National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh – Thursday 4 April 2024, 5 pm. It will be delivered by Caroline Milligan. Based on a series of oral history interviews made by the late Ian MacDougal with mill workers between 1996 and 2004, Border Mills: Lives of Peeblesshire Textile Workers is a new book that … Continue reading Border Mills: Lives of Peeblesshire Textile Workers
The new issue of Scottish Labour History for 2023 is out now, with more than 250 pages of notices and reports, articles, shorter ‘profiles in Scottish labour history’ and an extensive book reviews section. Published by the Scottish Labour History Society, volume 58 opens with an introduction by Gregor Gall and Jim Phillips, who note the one hundredth anniversary on 23 November of the death … Continue reading Scottish Labour History, 2023
The Scottish Labour History Society has launched an essay competition for undergraduates. The competion, which comes with a cash first prize of £400 and publication of the winning essay in the journal Scottish Labour History, is open to anyone currently registered for a first degree in Britain or abroad, or to anyone who has completed such a degree no earlier than February 2023. Download the entry … Continue reading Scottish Labour History Society undergraduate essay prize
Labour history societies in Scotland, the North-East and North-West of England have published the 2022 issues of their journals, with articles spanning a wide range of topics, from the Lancashire cotton famine to the cultural impact of deindustrialisation. The latest issue of the journal Historical Studies in Industrial Relations is also now available online, with new research on the Master and Servant Statute of 1823 … Continue reading Labour history journals round-up, 2022
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