Map of Britain made from early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps. It includes pins which link to digitised documents and links to a timeline.
New 1926 General Strike map online!
Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape.
Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Conference Poster: https://www.ticketsource.com/null/t-yzzmpzr
@newcastleuni.bsky.social will be hosting the British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research conference on 7-8 May. Tickets (no charge) for the event go live today at 9am. We have an excellent programme of speakers.
Supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Photo of Ameen Hadi
Ameen Hadi is a brilliant youth worker, anti racist and trade unionist. He was defending newly elected MP Hannah Spencer from violent far right transphobes and for that he has been suspended from Salford Council. Please sign and share the petition here actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...
Image of article abstract. Title: Thatcherism and the picket line. Abstract: This article explores the relationship between Thatcherism and the picket line. The picket line in late twentieth-century Britain was a space in which ideologies were directly contested, and the power of law, police, courts and trade unionism came into conflict. Reshaping picketing was essential to Thatcherism’s broader goal to restructure industrial relations. The paper first considers the new picketing regulations of the 1980s, focusing on how these directly responded to the often effective strike tactics of the 1970s. The new rules, however, were ignored in several major industrial disputes. The second part of the article shows how the picketing regulations were reinforced in the face of this challenge by intensive state, court and employer action, resistance to which was weakened by the labour movement’s internal divisions. As a result, the third section demonstrates how the new industrial relations regime came to be largely internalised by trade unions and their members in the 1990s. By the end of this period, the picket line had been transformed profoundly, becoming typically smaller, less mobile and more orderly. The history of picketing centres Thatcherism as a political project that used state power to reconfigure industrial relations in Britain, transforming the legal landscape within which trade unions operated and the broader cultural norms in which the power of picket lines was ultimately rooted. It emphasises that the weakening of workers as collective agents was a central, broadly coherent and, in many ways, successful feature of Thatcherism.
New article in English Historical Review (@enghistrev.bsky.social) on 'Thatcherism & the Picket Line'. Looks at relationship between picketing & Conservatives esp. in 1980s, but also the legacy into the 1990s. Of relevance, I think, to upcoming Orgreave inquiry.
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Any recommendations for a general and good introduction to the origins and early history of Apartheid in South Africa?
Congratulations, it looks brilliant!
Also shout out to the comrades who have made his writing accessible for future generations www.marxists.org/archive/padm...
Photograph of George Padmore reading a newspaper
Reading the work of George Padmore for the first time. What searing, powerful and relentless writing exposing the horrors of colonialism and still so relevant today.
Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
Photograph of Leon Trotsky
Simon Guttmann was mentor to many photographers, but my favourite story is Guttmann in 1932 sending a young Hungarian photographer Endre Ernö Friedmann to Copenahgen to photograph Trotsky in exile. Four years later he would be famous under the name Robert Capa jacobslibris.uk/2024/12/10/w...
Lino print of Simon Guttman
Photograph of woman sitting on chair and text under reads 'Tante Lotte, 1955'
Photograph of Guttmann holding a series of photographs
Fam shared photo of German Jewish great aunt Lotte (Lucie) Guttmann. Ancestry dig we find her son Wilhelm Simon Guttmann revolutionary, friend of Walter Benjamin,early visitor to Soviet Russia,pioneer of photojournalism. Escaping Germany,he settled in UK worked on Picture Post before founding Report
Quote from Professor Nicola Ranger, RCN General Secretary & Chief Executive, that says: "Nursing is a global family, and Alex Pretti’s death in such violent circumstances will be felt deeply. Those who join our profession do so because they are compassionate, and driven by an unrivalled commitment to public service."
We send our support to Alex Pretti's family and loved ones, and the global nursing community which has lost a devoted member. No matter where they are in the world, they - and the people they serve - deserve to be safe, both at work and in their communities.
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
No colour bar dance, 1955 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HNl...
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026
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Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...
I was reading about Elspeth King in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things - she features in the introduction. What a wonderful life www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Our two year old twin just said ‘he misses his mummy’ and the other explained ‘but he has balloon’ 🥹🥹🥹
Sunday afternoon watching Up - what a great film 🎈 ❤️
I’m in this piece talking about the Manchester links with the fifth Pan African Congress…
Great news, congratulations!
Last few tickets for this, next Friday!
‘Would you let your daughter marry Enoch Powell?’ 😝 🥰
Beforehand there will also be a range of Manchester archives showcasing material documenting the Pan African Congress - free event but book tickets here phm.org.uk/events_new/a...
This should be a great lecture @phm.org.uk to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan African Congress with the wonderful Gary Younge. Tickets going fast here phm.org.uk/events_new/w...
A brilliant first published journal article by Mohammed Khan, on an Indian Seamen’s Home in 1940s Liverpool - well worth a read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
A ‘wake up call’ seems right way of putting it for our side. Majority in London surely horrified at what just took place.
On the Tommy Robinson march… On the tram today and a man flicking through his Fb turns to his partner says ‘look Steve was on the march for common sense’, the tram passenger clicks ‘like’ and scrolls on. Huge potential for fascists to broaden and deepen their base further after yesterday
