Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire

Writer and historian Jill Liddington is to talk at an event on ‘Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire’. The event takes place in the Albany Club, Hope Hall, Halifax, on the evening of Friday 20 February, and will include book signing opportunities. Tickets can be booked via Eventbrite here. Event details When Votes for Women campaigns swept the country, Yorkshire was no exception. … Continue reading Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire

From Luddites to Suffragettes: a graphic tale of the fight for the vote

A crowdfunded graphic novel on the ‘raw, intense and often shockingly violent’ fight for the right to vote has hit its funding target within a matter of days of going live.  Titled COURAGE: Luddites – Peterloo – Chartists – Suffragettes, the book is the work of Polyp, the Manchester-based illustrator and cartoonist previously responsible for graphic novels on Peterloo and the life of Thomas Paine. … Continue reading From Luddites to Suffragettes: a graphic tale of the fight for the vote

Book reviews in Labour History Review Volume 87 (2022), Issue 3

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2022), 87, (3), 323-337. Find out more. Claudia Jarzebowski reviews Mary Nejedly, The Industrious Child Worker: Child Labour and Childhood in Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1750–1900, Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2021, pp. viii + 214, p/b, £16.99, ISBN 978 19122 60430 Janette Martin reviews Lyndsey Jenkins, Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenney Family, Class, and Suffrage, 1890–1965, Oxford: Oxford … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review Volume 87 (2022), Issue 3