Come and join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Lecture at the John Rylands Library in Manchester on the 13 June. Find out more and book your tickets here: sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...

A reminder that Labour History Review Volume 88, Issue 1 (2023) @livunipress.bsky.social is available to read online for free. The issue includes articles from João Lázaro, Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh, and @gregorybillam.bsky.social Read the issue here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/lhr/88/1

Don't forget that the 1926 General Strike centenary open day is fast approaching. Book your tickets here: phm.org.uk/events_new/1...

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...

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 sslh.org.uk/2026/02/12/c...

A special issue of our journal Labour History Review on ‘Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals’ is out now sslh.org.uk/2026/02/09/l...

Reading by Glow Worm: The Struggles of Labouring-Class Poets 🕯️ Join us for the fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor John Goodridge All welcome, and its free, but please register sslh.org.uk/2026/01/05/j...

We are looking for a new editor for our website and social media. Interested? DM us or email sslhwebeditor @ gmail . com for more info.

All Chartists Great and Small: three recent books offer insights into the lives of local and national Chartist leaders sslh.org.uk/2026/01/08/a...

Twelve places in labour history sslh.org.uk/tag/place-in...

The first three posts in our Places in Labour History series are now on our website. Duncan Hamilton on the County Hotel and Durham Miners’ Gala. Jane Donaldson on the 1938 co-operative movement pageant. Mark Crail on the burial place of Chartist writer Helen Macfarlane sslh.org.uk/tag/place-in...

Are you studying for a BA or taught Masters and need financial help to research a dissertation with a labour history theme? Check out our #bursary scheme… sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

Great book launch at the Marx Memorial Library yesterday for Henry Dee’s ‘Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa’. Dee pictured right; beside him is Dr Wayne Dooling of SOAS, who kindly acted as discussant sslh.org.uk/2025/11/04/m...

Join us Membership includes the next three issues of Labour History Review and access to the full back catalogue, discounts on books and the chance to support others studying labour history sslh.org.uk/join/

We're proud to be a member of the #GeneralStrike100 national partnership. Explore our interactive map and sign up to visit your nearest partner and #GeneralStrike100 history sites via actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...

Join us for the launch of Henry Dee’s ‘Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951’. Published with @livunipress.bsky.social. Marx Memorial Library, 29 November sslh.org.uk/2025/10/27/b...

If labour history matters to you, join us. Annual membership costs £37 (£21 for students) and includes a subscription to Labour History Review sslh.org.uk/join/

Chartism Day in Huddersfield was excellent: great papers, friendly people and really well attended. Good to see you all. Aiming to have a report on our website during the next week.

#GeneralStrike100 Next year marks 100 years since the General Strike of 1926. We are proud to be a part of a national partnership of 15 museums, libraries and groups working together to commemorate the event. Find out how you can support the partnership. bit.ly/GeneralStrik...

Round table: The Starmer Labour Government in Historical Perspective. Open access on Labour History Review sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/r...

Chartism Day is two weeks today. All welcome but you need to book #Chartism #Yorkshire #C19th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

Come and join us for Chartism Day 2025. All welcome; booking required. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

Book now for Chartism Day 2025 (and please share as widely as possible) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

The new issue of Labour History Review is out now. Have you got your copy yet? sslh.org.uk/2025/07/16/l...

Join us for #ChartismDay 2025. All welcome; tickets from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

The new issue of Labour History Review is out now sslh.org.uk/2025/07/16/l...

Professor Peter Gurney delivers the John Halstead Memorial Lecture on the “Chartist Revolution” at the John Rylands Library in Manchester today.

Bookings now open for the ‘Starmer Year One’ conference organised by the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University. The event takes place on 14 June 2025. sslh.org.uk/2025/05/06/c...

Have you got yours yet? sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/l...

Historians of Labour and class on the Starmer Labour Government in Historical Perspective. Open access roundtable discussion in Labour History Review with Peter Gurney, Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social), Laurence Black (@lawrenceblack.bsky.social) Martin Wright sslh.org.uk/2025/04/23/r...