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It’s a date…
Booking now open for SSLH members (check your email).
Booking opens Friday 8 September for all.
More info: sslh.org.uk/2023/07/27/the-ris

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From our archives…
Research findings on prominent CPGB women in the inter-war period
sslh.org.uk/2022/08/01/communi

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Labour History · @sslh
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From our archives…
Research findings on prominent CPGB women in the inter-war period

sslh.org.uk/2022/08/01/communi

#histodons #LabourHistory #SocialistHistory

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Labour History · @sslh
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From our archives…
Research findings on prominent CPGB women in the inter-war period
sslh.org.uk/2022/08/01/communi

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Labour History · @sslh
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We help fund a variety of events aimed at taking aspects of labour history to a wider audience. Find out more about our public engagement grants scheme at
sslh.org.uk/bursaries-grants/c

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Labour History · @sslh
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The Society for the Study of Labour History offers bursaries to
* Postgrad (PhD and Masters) researchers;
* BA/MA students with dissertations to write; and
* Independent scholars working at postgrad level.
Find out more at sslh.org.uk/bursaries-grants/b

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The Modern Records Centre at Warwick University holds an unrivalled collection of material on the history of the labour movement. Now it’s celebrating its half century. Find out more sslh.org.uk/2023/07/31/celebra

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From our archives

Chartism, the Great Strike of 1842 and the possibilities of drama sslh.org.uk/2023/07/17/chartis

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Chartism Day has been running since 1995. This year it was in Sheffield, where we heard some of the latest research on the Chartist land plan, the poet Thomas Cooper, the construction of a Chartist ‘paper pantheon’, and Chartist workers in France. There is a full report, with lots of photos and video of broadside ballad singer Jennifer Reid tackling ‘Shabby Feargus’ on our website at sslh.org.uk/2023/05/01/chartis

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Railway accidents killed more than 500 railwaymen every year in the 1890s. And when things went wrong, families often turned to trade unions for help. On the website today we look at the role played by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants after an horrific accident in 1898 that claimed the lives of the engine driver and firemen, whose quick thinking prevented a worse tragedy sslh.org.uk/2023/04/24/how-the

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I’ve been writing about the veteran Chartist Allen Davenport, who as president of the London Democratic Association provided a direct personal link back to the ultra radical Spenceans of an earlier generation and became a significant influence on the thinking of a young George Julian Harney. It’s here chartistancestors.co.uk/allen-

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In 1839, the Chartist George Julian Harney had been arrested at Bedlington in Northumberland and was on bail awaiting his trial for sedition when he sent this letter to his lawyer. Read more on our website… sslh.org.uk/2023/04/01/the-cha

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The Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor began his political career as a ‘gentleman radical’, inheriting family money and funding the Northern Star newspaper largely from his own pocket. But how much was he worth by the time he died in 1855? I’ve found some probate details that answer the question… chartist-ancestors.blogspot.co

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“In 1908, with support from the National Federation of Women Workers, the Corruganza boxmakers blazed a trail for the rights of women workers from a factory site in Summerstown.” As Women’s History Month begins, we have a blogpost about the strike and plans to commemorate it with a blue plaque at sslh.org.uk/2023/03/01/box-mak

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The past year has seen some exciting new additions to labour history archives around the UK - not least a truly massive collection of documents, letters and other material from the National Union of Mineworkers. The Society for the Study of Labour History’s Archives and Resources Committee compiles a record of new accessions, and this year’s is now on the website at sslh.org.uk/2023/02/25/additio

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When the Labour Party adopted a new constitution in 1918, its plan to recruit individual members and adopt a socialist programme stole the thunder of the ILP. Since the 1890s, the Independent Labour Party had been Britain’s most important socialist political party. Now it found itself looking for a new role to play. A blog post on our website looks at what happened next, taking as its starting point a 1918 ILP leaflet. More at sslh.org.uk/2023/02/21/who-nee

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We have a new blog post on the website about trade union emblems and membership certificates. During the Victorian era these were typically dominated by a classical imagery that soon appeared dated in the age of the motor car, and their use declined. But there was something of a revival in the 1930s as unions overhauled their public image. Read more and see some of these emblems at sslh.org.uk/2023/02/17/planes-

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