Called in at Bendigo Trades Hall (Victoria, Australia) and got a very friendly welcome from folks there. Great trade union history in the town dating back to gold rush days in the 1850s.
#tradeunions #tradeunionhistory

Friendship, Love & Truth is launched The Vale Rawlings book Friendship, Love & Truth, written by Elaine Pritchard, has been officially launched at Burton upon Trent public library.The book can now be bought, priced at £15.99, with all pr...

More details of the launch of my new book are live on the Forgotten Burton Stories website - www.forgottenburtonstories.co.uk/post/friends... #Tradeunions #LabourHistory #BurtonUponTrent #SocialHistory #TradeUnionHistory #Socialism #FriendshipLoveTruth #ValeRawlings

Freedom Fought For: The Battles Trade Unions Have Won... From the Tolpuddle Martyrs to the fight against Digital ID, the Workers of England Union continues a centuries-long struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice in the workplace. Learn how past victories inspire today’s defence of civil liberties across England.

Trade Unions won the fights for your freedom, safety, and dignity! 📜🛡️

We now resist new threats like intrusive Digital ID systems.
 www.workersofengland.co.uk/news/freedom-fought-for-...

#TradeUnionHistory #WorkersRights #FreeSpeech #WorkWellbeing #DigitalID

✊ We look forward to celebrating 100 years of #GeneralStrike next year.

🔎 Read about our national partnership of museums, libraries, archives and history groups working together to commemorate this historic milestone -
labouroutlook.org/2025/04/10/h...

#TradeUnionHistory #GFTU #GeneralStrike100

The Committee of Inquiry into Railway Pay Collection Sixty-five years after the Committee of Inquiry into Railway Pay published its Final Report, the Committee’s archive collection is now listed to box level and accessible to readers. Find out more a…

New blog post: The Committee of Inquiry into Railway Pay Collection nuffieldcollegelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/t...
Read all about the cataloguing and preservation of this archive collection - now available to consult in the Library
#RailwayHistory #TradeUnionHistory

Cataloguing some interesting items today - here’s a charter for domestic workers from 1938. Published by the National Union of Domestic Workers it calls for max no of working hours, minimum wage, decent living accommodation and holiday entitlement

#tradeunionhistory #womenworkers #workerrights 💪

📣 Join us for the final Trade Union & Working Class History session of our programme, Grunwick 1976 with Harsev Bains.

Online | 7pm | 17 July

Sign up now: gftuet.org.uk/courses/trad...

#GFTUET #TradeUnionHistory #WorkingClass

Women picketing for TUC support for their strike. They are a mix of black, white and Asian, and a range of ages.

#OnThisDay, 24 May 1976, at least 400 women walk out on strike at the Trica factory in London, demanding equal pay with their male colleagues. Around 100 men come out on strike in support of the women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #TradeUnionHistory
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🚨The Wapping Dispute & Printworker Organisation

📍 Marx Memorial Library

Ann Field and Matt Dunne | 12 June | 7pm

Secure your place today - bit.ly/TUWCHistory

#GFTUET #TradeUnionHistory

📍 🗺️ Come on down to Marx Memorial Library and join Ann Field and Matt Dunne at the next hybrid Trade Union & Working Class History session.

🖨️ The Wapping Dispute & Printworker Organisation | 12 June | 7pm

Secure your place today - gftuet.org.uk/courses/trad...

#GFTUET #TradeUnionHistory

History is all around us – celebrating the 100 anniversary of the General Strike In partnership with the trade union movement, national museums, libraries, archives, and history groups are collaborating together to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the General Strike of 1926.

History is all around us – celebrating the 100 anniversary of the General Strike 🪧📢✊

Read more about our #GeneralStrike100 project via @labouroutlook.bsky.social here:
labouroutlook.org/2025/04/10/h...

#GeneralStrike #TradeUnionHistory #Workers #History #LabourHistory

February Meeting - Peterborough Local History Society Peterborough and the 1926 General Strike Our next meeting will take place this coming Thursday (13th February) at 7.30 pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough ...

Next year is the centenary of the 1926 General Strike. I've dusted down my MA research, added a bit more and I'm taking it out on the road! Feel free to book me to speak, like Peterborough Local History Society have done! #TradeUnionHistory
peterboroughlocalhistorysociety.co.uk/february-mee...

A Rawlings Job and the Bantam Battalions Elaine Pritchard has made a surprise discovery, thanks to an audience member at a talk she gave, and has been investigating if a man of just 4ft 11ins should have been conscripted to the British Army...

New blog post on 'A Rawlings job and the Bantam Battalions'
www.forgottenburtonstories.co.uk/post/a-rawli...
#WorldWarOne #LabourHistory #TradeUnionHistory