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60 Years of SLHS – 30 Years of SWPHT The joint anniversary celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Scottish Labour History Society (SLHS) and 30th anniversary of the Scottish Working People’s History Trust (SWPHT), in conjunction with the National ...

Subscription Increase – Final Reminder It was agreed at the SLHS June AGM that subscriptions should be increased, as the annual journal production and website maintenance costs now exceed the unwaged subscription, and almost equal the waged ...

Subscription Increase Reminder It was agreed at the SLHS June AGM that subscriptions should be increased, as the annual journal production and website maintenance costs now exceed the unwaged subscription, and almost equal the waged subscription. New ...

PayPal Problems Resolved At long last the Society’s problems with PayPal functionality on the website have been resolved (18 June), thanks to the perseverance of treasurer Robert Laurie, with assistance from committee member Chris Miller and ...

SLHS SGM and AGM As members will know from the notice sent out several weeks ago, the Society is holding a Special General Meeting, followed by an overdue AGM (via ‘Zoom’) on Wednesday 2nd June at 1pm. Anyone wishing to participate should send a ...

Picket Line Research SLHS committee member Diarmaid Kelliher is working on a research project at the University of Glasgow on ‘The Picket Line in Britain, 1966-1998’, exploring the role of the picket line in industrial relations and British politics ...

Scottish Local History Forum Conference on Slavery The Scottish Local History Forum is holding a mini-online conference – Scotland’s involvement in slavery: the local view – on the evenings of Wednesday & Thursday 28/29 April, beginning at 5pm. The ...

PayPal Problems As noted in the email accompanying our February newsletter, we are experiencing problems with access to PayPal from the SLHS website. This appears to be a result of an upgrade in the PayPal security protocol and we are trying to ...

50 Years on from UCS Several initiatives have been organised for the 50th anniversary of the work-in at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) in 1971. On 28 January the Jimmy Reid Foundation is holding a celebration of the work-in, with Professor John ...

History of Protest in Aberdeen University of Aberdeen archivist (and SLHS member) Andrew MacGregor is developing a new resource, 100 Places of Protest, which he has added to the Aberdeen Protest blog at https://aberdeenprotest.wordpress.com/ Andrew ...