To mark the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, Professor Michael Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social will deliver an online talk on 20 May on the ‘Big Strike’ novels, exploring the works of Ellen Wilkinson and Elizabeth Gaskell.
Find out more here: sslh.org.uk/2026/04/20/o...
Don't forget that the 1926 General Strike centenary open day is fast approaching. Book your tickets here: phm.org.uk/events_new/1...
Don't forget that the 1926 General Strike centenary open day is fast approaching. Book your tickets here: phm.org.uk/events_new/1...
Are you a historian of the 1926 General Strike? If so, we need your help updating the strike's bibliography to mark its centenary. sslh.org.uk/2026/04/02/h...
Really pleased to be part of this upcoming event marking the centenary of the #GeneralStrike100 at the People History's Museum
The People's History Museum is hosting a special open day on the 9 May to commemorate the centenary of the 1926 General Strike. We are delighted to support this event! sslh.org.uk/2026/04/13/1...
We provided a research bursary to help John Russell research the Labour Party's Middle Eastern policy following the 1956 Suez Crisis. Here’s what he found.
sslh.org.uk/2026/03/17/j...
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain
18 June 2026 at Uni of Warwick
Hosted by @mrcwarwick.bsky.social &
Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology supported by @sslh.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Booking now open
#histmed #histSTM
Left on the Shelf remains a key resource for anyone interested in labour history. Find out more about new owner Mark Thwaite's plans for the store. sslh.org.uk/2026/04/07/l...
Thanks to @sslh.bsky.social for publishing an article on the progress of the Vale Rawlings project to revive the forgotten story of a Midlands trade unionist & do good in his name. sslh.org.uk/2026/04/09/v... #WW1 #tradeunion #labourhistory @unitetheunion.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
I mentioned this on Twitter back during Covid days. I am happy to share my collection of archival photos/primary sources with other researchers.
If you’re working on the history of political or social movements in Britain, Australia or South Africa, I might have stuff in my collection. Hit me up!
We provided a research bursary to help Theo Christodoulidis research industrial Dundee's female migrant millworkers c.1841-1891. Here's what he found: sslh.org.uk/2026/03/24/t...
Find out more about our postgraduate research bursaries: sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health & Welfare in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, libraries, archives, museums and community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry. Conference programme: Panel 1: Disasters, safety and commemoration Oaks Colliery Disaster, 1866 Paul Darlow, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Paul Hardman, former NUM National Executive Officer The Safety Men: the Colliery Deputies union in the British Coal Industry Professor Peter Ackers, Loughborough University (Emeritus) Welcomed to Wrexham Sarah Castagnetti, The National Archives The 1959 Auchengeich Disaster: class, community and commemoration in Scotland’s coalfields Professor Jim Phillips, University of Glasgow Chair: Dr Jörg Arnold, Universität Augsburg Panel 2: Health The Violent Realities and Multiple Temporalities of a Miner’s Life Liv Robinson, Northumbria University ‘A wonderful difference to the home life’: pithead baths, pitwomen, and disability in twentieth-century British coalmining communities Lucy Jameson, Durham University Pneumoconiosis, Environment, and the Politics of Coal Miners' Health in Twentieth Century Britain Dr Andrew Seaton, University of Manchester A Special Case? Miners’ Health, Wage Relativities and the Fall of Heath’s Government Robert Rayner, University of Birmingham Chair: Professor Mathew Thomson, University of Warwick
Panel 3: Welfare “Feeding on the job?” Pit canteens in 1940s Britain Dr Ariane Mak, Université Paris Cité & IUF The Warmth of Home: Concessionary Fuel and Domestic Energy in British Coalfield Communities, 1945-1995 Dr Kathy Davies, Northumbria University Class, Culture and Democracy: the Miners Libraries of South Wales John Pateman, University of Leicester Deindustrialisation and the recreational provision of the nationalised British coalmining industry (1950s-1984) Dr Marion Henry, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Chair: Dr Quentin Outram, Society for the Study of Labour History Panel 4: Legacies Now The Dust Has Settled James O. Davies, Historic England 'The Big K: The Pit that shaped a community' Its legacy, a decade after closure. Judi Alston, One to One Development Trust Union Poorhouse to Union Leader - Herbert Smith, President of the Miners Federation of Great Britain 1922-1929. Kathryn Stainburn, Castleford Civic Society The Afterlife of Coal in Barnsley: Youth, Community, and Intergenerational Legacies Dr Kat Simpson, The University of Huddersfield Chair: Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton Showcase of exhibitions, displays and posters: On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton Coal: a record of an industry Gary Winter, Historic England Poster of Mrs Sheila Truman Daniella Law, Historic England Glamorgan’s Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins – Exploring the Coal Collections at Glamorgan Archives Rhian Diggins, Glamorgan Archives When Coal was Clean: Soap and Smoke in Nineteenth Century Britain Oliver Marshall Mining Disasters in the Village of Worsbrough Maureen Gennard, Peter Fairham and David Bullock, Worsbrough Library Heritage Group
🚨 Conference booking open 🚨
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain from the 19th century to the present
18 June 2026, University of Warwick
Booking form and additional information about the programme available at
warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
A new issue of Labour History Review @livunipress.bsky.social is out now, available online and in print, including an open access article by Peter Gurney on Chartism. sslh.org.uk/2026/04/01/l...
What’s new in the archives: our free guide to labour history accessions in 2025
#labourhistory #archives
sslh.org.uk/2026/04/01/a...
What’s new in the archives: our free guide to labour history accessions in 2025
#labourhistory #archives
sslh.org.uk/2026/04/01/a...
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
@sslh.bsky.social
@ialhi.bsky.social
We provided a research bursary to help @loadaigh99.bsky.social research Scotland’s rural labour movement for his PhD. Here’s what he found.
sslh.org.uk/2026/03/10/l...
Thank you for your excellent report. Fascinating research on Scotland’s rural labour movement.
Cartoon shows the scene of the Chartist 'riot' in Birmingham 1839, with giant large London policemen attacking the crowd. Text: Chartism Day 2026. 19 September, Warwick.
Chartism Day 2026
This year's event will take place in Warwick on 19 September 2026. For more info and to see the call for papers, click the link.
#Chartism #ChartismDay #CfP
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An index for Labour History Review vol 90 (2025) is now on our website. There are indexes for every issue of the Society's publications since it was founded in 1960, with a consolidated index in Excel from 1990 when LHR was launched. All indexes are free to download.
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Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026
(Please share widely)
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📣We are delighted to announce the 2026 recipients of the Joint BME Small Grants!
This scheme is supported by @histedsocuk.bsky.social; EHS; History UK; @historyworkshop.org.uk; @royalhistsoc.org; @sslh.bsky.social and @womenshistnet.bsky.social!✨
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Image of historian E.P.Thompson, founder member of the Society for the Study of Labour History.
If labour history matters to you, join us. Annual membership costs £37 (£21 for students) and includes a subscription to Labour History Review
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Great work, Ralph!
I’m finishing today my posting of recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain - in this 100th anniversary year - with Nos. 27-35. Hope you’ve liked the overall series over recent weeks?!!
@strikemap.org @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026
(Please share widely)
sslh.org.uk/2026/02/19/l...
Out today, my new book about Margaret Bondfield, all-round ground-breaker and political pioneer is published by @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social and is available in both book and audio form. I am, obviously, very pleased about it!
