On this day thirty-three years ago, the renowned historian and activist E.P. Thompson died (1924-1993). What are some of your favourite passages, works, and insights?

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Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Gramsci: The cup is not empty, but not yet full. Now is the time of monsters.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · last wk.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know

Labour History Review | Most Read ‘Uncomradely and Un-communist’: Breakdown in the Communist Anglosphere? The Communist Party of Great Britain and Communist Party of Australia Debate, 1947–1948 by @gregorybillam.bsky.social. ➡️Read it online: bit.ly/LHR-Billam @sslh.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

I have a new article (open access!) published online in Contemporary British History covering the Communist Party Historians' Group and the national-radical tradition. So, please download! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Bringing history to the people’: the Communist Party Historians’ Group and the national-radical tradition, 1946–1956

The Communist Party Historians’ Group produced many of the most influential historians of the twentieth century shaping the development of social history and wider British historiography into the p...

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Farage truly leaning into the Trump playbook here.

Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs

Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs

Veteran Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child attacks ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s policies * UK politics live – latest updates Shabana Mahmood should be moved out of the Home Office and her asylum policies of “performative cruelty” ripped up by Andy Burnham’s administration, Alf Dubs has said. The veteran Labour peer who came to the UK aged six in 1939 fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia said the home secretary’s talents “would be better used elsewhere in the cabinet”. Continue reading...

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The Society for the Study of Labour History stands in solidarity with those affected and emphasises the importance of protecting history and humanities departments from the threat of closure at the University of Hertfordshire, and elsewhere. Read our statement: sslh.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

SSLH Statement: History at the University of Hertfordshire

The Society for the Study of Labour History is deeply saddened and shocked to learn that the University of Hertfordshire intends to make cuts across a range of humanities subjects, including the cl…

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Call for Papers New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field Workshop to assess the current state of research on the New Left. Cfp for an event to be held in November at QMUL. Info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

A reminder that Labour History Review Volume 88, Issue 1 (2023) @livunipress.bsky.social is available to read online for free. The issue includes articles from João Lázaro, Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh, and @gregorybillam.bsky.social Read the issue here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/lhr/88/1

Total utter and complete madness. Historians, or ‘the unemployed’ as they are now known.

Richard Carr@richardcarr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There are currently 6 permanent full time history jobs in the whole UK. 500+ PhDs being produced a year - not all of whom will want to pursue an academic year but likely most, and of course years will stack up onto each other. What a sector.

To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

I was one of the examiners of Gregory’s thesis on the Communist Parties of Great Britain and Australia in the early Cold War period, and thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

Gregory Billam@gregorybillam.bsky.social · last yr.

I've finally moved over from the other unnamed hellscape to shamelessly plug my newly finished PhD thesis on British and Australian communism. A special mention to my fantastic supervisor, Dan Gordon, and my examiners, Evan Smith and James Renton. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/studentTh...

Congratulations to Gregory on his thesis completion on British and Australian communism. He recently published an article in Twentieth Century Communism on the CPGB's empire conferences in 1947 and 1954, which was published in issue 26. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2024...

Gregory Billam@gregorybillam.bsky.social · last yr.

I've finally moved over from the other unnamed hellscape to shamelessly plug my newly finished PhD thesis on British and Australian communism. A special mention to my fantastic supervisor, Dan Gordon, and my examiners, Evan Smith and James Renton. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/studentTh...

I've finally moved over from the other unnamed hellscape to shamelessly plug my newly finished PhD thesis on British and Australian communism. A special mention to my fantastic supervisor, Dan Gordon, and my examiners, Evan Smith and James Renton. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/studentTh...