This year’s heatwave and drought in Europe has caused historically low water levels on the River Danube, exposing over 200 German wrecks scuttled in 1944 by the retreating Germans, including this warship. #GermanNavy #Diving #WW2
Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs.bsky.social
Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
Why is it that in Kemi Badenoch’s terms an ex Neo Nazi with a string of criminal convictions should have a ‘second chance’ as a Tory politician? Couldn’t they do just about anything else? Get a job? Volunteer? Stay well away from political power?
Really looking forwards to reading this!
Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs.bsky.social · 24h agoMy new book, An Injury to All, traces the history of The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Thanks very much to @demleftscotland.bsky.social for publicising An Injury to All as it goes out for pre-order. Full details below🔽 www.democratic-left.scot/post/an-inju...
My new book, An Injury to All, traces the history of The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Thanks very much to @demleftscotland.bsky.social for publicising An Injury to All as it goes out for pre-order. Full details below🔽 www.democratic-left.scot/post/an-inju...
An injury to all - New book on the 'unmaking of the working class'
Ewan Gibbs, the Glasgow-based historian who is author of Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland will be known to many Democratic Left Scotland members. Ewan’s ...
democratic-left.scot
New journal article on working-class women telling stories of economic and social change. Gillian Murray, Janet Greenlees and I recorded interviews with women in deindustrialising Lanarkshire who had diverging narratives of survival 'getting by' and social mobility - 'getting on'.
Getting by or getting on: gender, intergenerational earning and caring in deindustrialising localities in Lanarkshire, Scotland
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New journal article on working-class women telling stories of economic and social change. Gillian Murray, Janet Greenlees and I recorded interviews with women in deindustrialising Lanarkshire who had diverging narratives of survival 'getting by' and social mobility - 'getting on'.
Getting by or getting on: gender, intergenerational earning and caring in deindustrialising localities in Lanarkshire, Scotland
Reader environment loaded
tandfonline.com
Hi, hi. It's been a while and I still have some left so do you mind if I promote my Changing Landscapes zine? 40 pages dedicated to ruined structures (and vehicles!) in the North Pennines. £10 including P&P - UK only. Info & buy: www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr... #Photography #Zine
Visited Carfin Grotto in North Lanarkshire this afternoon. Thee Grotto is a Catholic shrine which was modelled on Lourdes. It was in part built by local miners during the 1921 coal lockout. Interesting place.
Ultimately it’s UKGov who will foot the bill. That is us all, as taxpayers, paying to clean up the mess left by yet another extractive industry. One issue which is a major failure is that I always pushed for a mandatory UK content but UKGov pushed back because “the UK is Open for Business”. Big fail
BP exiting the North Sea is a big moment in the history of the industry and Scotland’s economy. It’s been a long time coming, and marks an end to over a century of petroleum activities and more than 50 years of North Sea drilling. BP’s exit cannot be explained by short term tax policy changes 🧵
BP puts North Sea business up for sale
Chief executive Meg O’Neill says the business would be ‘better positioned as part of another company’, sparking recriminations over the basin’s high tax regime
thetimes.com
bp selling its North Sea production assets is just a continuation of business. Here's a main list of previous UK production assets that bp operated, and government in place when they disposed of them: (apologies if I have missed any)
Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs.bsky.social · 5d agoOil lobbyists and SNP and Tory politicians will tell you BP is leaving the North Sea due to tax levels. That isn’t a credible explanation. In reality it’s down to the relative profitability of production and geology.
Economic historian @ewangibbs.bsky.social provides a useful historical perspective on BP’s £2 billion sale of its North Sea business. It has little or nothing to do with short-term changes in taxation policy.
Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs.bsky.social · 5d agoBP exiting the North Sea is a big moment in the history of the industry and Scotland’s economy. It’s been a long time coming, and marks an end to over a century of petroleum activities and more than 50 years of North Sea drilling. BP’s exit cannot be explained by short term tax policy changes 🧵
BP exiting the North Sea is a big moment in the history of the industry and Scotland’s economy. It’s been a long time coming, and marks an end to over a century of petroleum activities and more than 50 years of North Sea drilling. BP’s exit cannot be explained by short term tax policy changes 🧵
BP puts North Sea business up for sale
Chief executive Meg O’Neill says the business would be ‘better positioned as part of another company’, sparking recriminations over the basin’s high tax regime
thetimes.com
It’s very significant wind and solar accounts for a quarter of Chinese electricity generation, and coal for less than half. As China becomes more electrified that isn’t yet leading to a fall in coal consumption. China is simply adding more electricity capacity to the mix.
China generates less than half of its electricity from coal for the first time
China, the world's largest coal consumer, generated less than 50% of its electricity from the fossil fuel in the six months to June, marking a first for the country, which has been promoting the use...
reuters.com
All I see here is that Hobsbawm does indeed rule!
Gabriel Flynn@gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 6d agobuying a book by hobsbawm: fuck yeah let’s go, this guy rules reading a book by hobsbawn: even after 1820, barley production on the island continued to rise, reaching an annual average of 40 tonnes per year by 1832, and this in a period when trade conditions greatly incentivised wheat production
Important reporting from @theferret.scot on the involvement of a convicted killer and a former Loyalist paramilitary in recent violent far-right racist mobilisations in Glasgow. It’s unexpected but nevertheless concerning.
Loyalist killer and former Ulster Volunteer Force member attended Glasgow anti-immigration protest
An anti-immigration protest in Glasgow that turned violent last weekend attracted thousands of people. Those attending included loyalists from Northern Ireland with criminal convictions.
theferret.scot
Was Count Binface also involved in Britain’s recent history of disastrous imperial wars?
ScotWind should be seen as a defining failure of successive SNP administrations (and Green supporters) who insisted it would be formative to Scotland’s reindustrialisation. Reports of £6 billion less activity than expected is only the latest confirmation.
'Disaster': ScotWind to deliver £6bn less to Scotland as spending shifts overseas
A landmark offshore wind programme hailed by Scotland's former First Minister as a "truly historic" opportunity is now set to deliver…
heraldscotland.com
The German Resistance Memorial Centre is a humbling place which records the history of brave men and women who resisted the Nazis. It includes powerful examples from organised Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists, Jews, Christians and others.
First as tragedy, then as farce. You can still visit Woolworth on Karl Marx Strasse in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany. Wonder what the big man would have made of it?
Lots of you are losing control this week. Remember to stick to the programme.
Very much looking forward to reading this
Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs.bsky.social · 2w agoMy new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is coming out in October. You can preorder it from Waterstones with a 25% discount today and tomorrow! Place your order here ⬇️ www.waterstones.com/book/an-inju...
My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is coming out in October. You can preorder it from Waterstones with a 25% discount today and tomorrow! Place your order here ⬇️ www.waterstones.com/book/an-inju...
My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is coming out in October. You can preorder it from Waterstones with a 25% discount today and tomorrow! Place your order here ⬇️ www.waterstones.com/book/an-inju...