August is here, so tell us about your #OnePlaceLabourers! You could look at the lives or tell the stories of individual labourers, or discuss labourers in general. What proportion of those employed in your #OnePlaceStudy were labourers, and how did that change across census years? #OnePlaceWednesday

Society for One-Place Studies@oneplacestudies.bsky.social · last wk.

August is nearly upon us, and with it comes a new blogging prompt for #OnePlaceStudies! Who were your #OnePlaceLabourers, what were their daily lives like, and how did those lives change with the seasons and over time? #OnePlaceWednesday

Tickets are now available for Chartism Day 2026. The £12 ticket price includes refreshments and a light buffet lunch (plus all the Chartism you can eat). All are welcome. #C19th #History #Chartism www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

Chartism Day 2026

Join us to discover the latest research on Chartism and get the chance to meet fellow Chartist scholars and enthusiasts. All welcome.

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🧵 6 posts. Plantation wealth left a lasting mark on Yorkshire through its grand country houses and estates. Profits from Caribbean plantations enabled wealthy British families to buy land, build homes, and secure social and political influence, embedding colonial wealth into the county's landscape.

It’s Lammas Day! In the traditional rural calendar, Lammas Day signalled the annual shift from planting crops to grazing animals. It was the last day on which grass was cut for hay, and the day grazing could commence and the hunting season began.

Late to it, but this book packs a punch

A new biography of Manchester Irishwoman and trade union organiser, Mary Quaile, will be launched on Saturday 8th August in Manchester. Find out more: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/30/b...

Book launch: Mary Quaile, Manchester trade union organiser

A new biography of Manchester Irishwoman and trade union organiser, Mary Quaile, will be launched on Saturday 8th August in Manchester. Bernadette Hyland and Michael Herbert’s new book: &#821…

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*Sound on for this one* (normal sound followed by slow motion). Yellow-rattle, Rhinanthus minor also known as the hay rattle as the noise of dried seeds being shaken in their pods signalled a good time to cut hay.

Apocalyptic sun through smoke clouds from the horrific fires burning across Spain.

Miguel Clavero@chikichanka.bsky.social · 2w ago

El cielo sobre Villanueva del Pardillo

Back in 1988 John Healy published his memoir The Grass Arena about his life as a wino turned chessmaster. This August the sequel, The Glass Cage, is published. To coincide with this @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social screen my 2011 documentary about Healy. Please share if you can ifi.ie/film/from-th...

This Day in Labor History: July 16, 1931. A white mob murdered the black sharecropper organizer Ralph Gray in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Let's talk about communist organizing in rural Alabama and the white violence used to crush it!

What a fantastic conference, and we were delighted to support it. If you were unable to attend, you can catch up below!

Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick@mrcwarwick.bsky.social · last mo.

Coal conference catch-up ⛏️ On 18 June we welcomed 80+ people to 'Blood is the price of coal' - a conference on coal communities, health and welfare Recordings of 10 talks, conference photos and more are now available online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #histmed #MiningHistory #envhist

Friday Murder time and this one is upsetting. So I'm going to focus less on the details and more on the reaction of the police and their investigation. On 19th May 1891, some sailors noticed a bag in Sandon Basin, a dock in the north part of Liverpool. They took it out of the water and opened it.

‘Wherever we find class, we tend to find violence, and wherever we find the violence of class, we also tend to find work that normalizes and depoliticizes that violence.’

Nate Holdren@nhold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I believe this link is non-paywalled and lasts for three months if anyone wants to read it and doesn't have institutional access or a subscription (everyone should subscribe to Labor!) read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

I was asked to think of 4 tips for people who are tracing their family trees, beyond the usual introductory advice - see my suggestions in @uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/four-top-tip... What advice would you give? #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Genealogists #GenHour

Four top tips for tracing your ancestry from a family historian

Studying the stories of our ancestors, whatever their background, is a deeply enriching experience.

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I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!

Most amazing defense I've ever come across in years of looking at Old Bailey records today from a man accused of stealing sheep in 1815:

'Defence not Defiance': the banner of the Northwich & District Amalgamated Society of Salt Workers created in 1893 with a rare early depiction of a female worker bottom right. Now on show in the Weaver Hall Museum, Northwich.

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

Witnessing the Weavers’ Rising of 1826

A digital mapping project created by The National Archives and The Open University

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1 month to go until 2026 Big Meadow Search Project gets underway. Runs 1st June to 31st August across UK, Ireland and Channel Islands. Any type of grassland can be included. Everyone welcome to join. Watch this space for updates and please start looking for places to search

A reminder that next Wednesday I’ll be at the Royal Armouries in Leeds to talk about The Firearm Revolution. Also streaming live online. 2pm BST/9am EST. Book here:

The Firearm Revolution

29 April 2026, 2pm

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1825: This used to be 'Breakday' when the Fen commons used to be broke as it was calld by turning in the stock it used to be a day of busy note with the villages but Enclosure has spoiled all

The former Titwood Farmhouse on Shawmoss Road in Glasgow. One of around half a dozen former farm houses still standing in the city. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #pollokshaws #crossmyloof

This award-winning 1967 Czech doco about Ireland is almost impossible to find so I stuck it on the you tube. Some astonishing, indelible images, an Eastern European vision of the western edge of Europe that makes it seem utterly haunted & mysterious. youtu.be/Pkl5ALvWzho?...

Zeme Svateho Patricka AKA St Patrick's Land (1967)

YouTube video by Paul Duane

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This video mentions empty houses, I rented on a farm where most of dwellings empty, owners unwilling to modernise, on a neighbouring estate 50-60 houses including farmhouses were demolished after 1940s as labour needs declined and costs of modernising buildings with low rentals combined with an

Philip Amies@philipamies.eurosky.social · 4mo ago

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England between 1851 and 1871 men were recorded in the three separate categories of farm servant (indoor), agricultural labourer (outdoor) and shepherd (outdoor).

It’s not an advert. It’s a threat.

Trades Union Congress@tuc.org.uk · 4mo ago

An advert promoting an AI company at Bristol Airport has been pulled after backlash. The advert showed a female AI worker who will 'never ask for a raise'.

Is there a classic rederence for thinking about military history from a labor history perspective? "War workers" and so on? 🗃️

A full recording of Saturday's Symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Ireland' is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJaf... @marcmulholland.bsky.social @peelersandsheep.bsky.social @petergray47.bsky.social @sophcocooper.bsky.social

Peasant Movements and Land Agitation Symposium - full recording

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies

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Seeing #SnaG26 #SeachtainNaGaeilge posts prompted me to look back through my #IrishLondonHistory☘️ research for evidence of Irish being spoken in London's past. #Spéirghorm feedback on this 1605-1896 timeline of what I've found so far would be very welcome 💚 www.irishlondonhistory.com/post/finding...