Society for the Study of Labour History
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Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
Tickets are now available for Chartism Day 2026! All are welcome. The £12 ticket price includes refreshments and a light buffet lunch. The full programme will be available in due course. Book your tickets and find out more here: sslh.org.uk/2026/08/02/c...
Chartism Day 2026 Registration
Tickets for Chartism Day 2026 are now available. This year’s event takes place on Saturday 19 September at Friends Meeting House, Warwick, and is open to all. Chartism Day 2026, 19 September,…
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We are delighted to have supported Isaac Stephenson's (University of Oxford) research on gunworkers in England and Belgium. Find out more about his work and our research bursaries on offer here: sslh.org.uk/2026/08/03/i...
Isaac Stephenson (Oxford) on the organisation and politics of gunworkers in England and Belgium, 1886-1914
The generosity of the Society for the Study of Labour History enabled me to conduct research in Belgium and the Netherlands for my MSt (Modern European History) dissertation exploring the impact of…
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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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Tickets are now available for Chartism Day 2026! All are welcome. The £12 ticket price includes refreshments and a light buffet lunch. The full programme will be available in due course. Book your tickets and find out more here: sslh.org.uk/2026/08/02/c...
Chartism Day 2026 Registration
Tickets for Chartism Day 2026 are now available. This year’s event takes place on Saturday 19 September at Friends Meeting House, Warwick, and is open to all. Chartism Day 2026, 19 September,…
sslh.org.uk
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
Did you know that Sheffield was at the forefront of Britain's heavy spring trade for much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Read Quentin Outram's review of John Austin’s The Sheffield Heavy Spring Trade: 1829-2025 here: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/30/b...
Book review: Sheffield and the heavy spring trade
Quentin Outram reviews John Austin’s The Sheffield Heavy Spring Trade: 1829-2025. Sheffield, 2026, pp. 192, p/b. ISBN 978 10369 32701. Heavy springs are the springs you used to find and still…
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We're going back (*ahem*) 40 years and digging through the zines Some fine DIY cut and paste work on show, alongside music news, implied filth, vegetarianism, nuclear armageddon and cricket
Banners bright Mining history on display in our current exhibition, featuring archives on coalfield communities, health, welfare and mining trade unionism
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: ̵…
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Some of the most powerful talks in our conference 'Blood is the Price of Coal' looked at coalfield communities after the pits had closed These and more can be watched in full at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
SSLH E.C members, Dave Lyddon and Quentin Outram are currently updating a HSIR bibliography on the 1926 General Strike. Read more abour their expanded version: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/14/u...
Update: Bibliography on the 1926 General Strike
To mark the one hundredth anniversary of the 1926 General Strike and mining lockout, Dave Lyddon and Quentin Outram are revising the Historical Studies in Industrial Relations (HSIR) bibliography o…
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A new issue of the Society's journal, Labour History Review, is available now. sslh.org.uk/2026/07/14/l...
Labour History Review Volume 91 (2026), issue 2
Labour History Review Volume 91 (2026), Issue 2 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats. In this issue . . . Lewis James Willcox, ‘Class, Community, a…
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Digitised! Some of the earliest records of UK trade unionism, containing a wealth of information for labour, social, economic, political & family history 700+ Fortnightly Returns from the Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasons online (& more to come) cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Don't forget our next online event is this Saturday! Join us for '“Blaring defiant tunes”: relief, resilience and jazz' with a great line up of talks from Sir Deian Hopkin, Sue Bowyer and Dr Steve Thompson. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1926-and-c...
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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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
The People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Find out more and book your place here: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/02/o...
On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity (Guided Tours)
The People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Marking …
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Polyp and Madeleine Goodall are looking for support and your involvement to crowdfund their latest project focusing on 'free-thinking humanists'. Find out more: sslh.org.uk/2026/06/16/l...
Loose Cannons: a graphic tale of forgotten humanists
A new graphic novel running through the lives and ideas of humanists, both well known and unjustly forgotten, has just been announced. Polyp, COURAGE [click to enlarge] Paul Fitzgerald (Polyp), a M…
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The People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Find out more and book your place here: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/02/o...
On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity (Guided Tours)
The People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Marking …
sslh.org.uk
Finally getting back to a research thread on the anti poll tax movement. Boy, was it similar to Chartism in the way it organised and spread.
Delighted to say that I passed my PhD viva yesterday with no corrections! Somehow survived the heat as well.
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
Polyp and Madeleine Goodall are looking for support and your involvement to crowdfund their latest project focusing on 'free-thinking humanists'. Find out more: sslh.org.uk/2026/06/16/l...
Loose Cannons: a graphic tale of forgotten humanists
A new graphic novel running through the lives and ideas of humanists, both well known and unjustly forgotten, has just been announced. Polyp, COURAGE [click to enlarge] Paul Fitzgerald (Polyp), a M…
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This weekend, Professor John Goodridge delivered our fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture, exploring the struggles of labouring-class poets. If you were unable to attend, you can watch it here: sslh.org.uk/2026/06/15/v...
Video: John Goodridge on the struggles of labouring-class poets
Professor John Goodridge delivers the Society for the Study of Labour History’s annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture, titled, ‘Reading by glow worm: the struggles of labouring-class poets’. The ev…
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This looks like a tremendous event, on labouring-class poetry, in Manchester, this Saturday. @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @workingclasshistory.com @uolpress.bsky.social
Society for the Study of Labour History@sslh.bsky.social · 2mo agoA small number of tickets are remaining for our annual lecture this Saturday in Manchester at the John Rylands Library. Book your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-joh...
To mark the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, the Society for the Study of Labour History's ARC has issued a new subject guide on the 1926 General Strike covering major archival holdings. Find out more here: sslh.org.uk/2026/06/10/s...
Sources for the history of the 1926 General Strike
To mark the centenary of the 1926 General Strike and lockout, the Society for the Study of Labour History has produced a new subject guide on the 1926 General Strike. Sources for the History of the…
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