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First tranche of NUM archives now indexed online in huge Warwick MRC project

Just over half way through its three-year project to conserve and catalogue the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers, the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick has published the first five catalogues relating to early workers’ organisations in the mining industry. The vast archive collection, previously held at the NUM headquarters in Barnsley, was relocated to Warwick in January 2023 following specialist … Continue reading First tranche of NUM archives now indexed online in huge Warwick MRC project

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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

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