Blog Archive July 2020

Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter

Summer 2020

SLHS Newsletter: Summer 2020
Welcome to the first of what it is hoped will become a regular series of Scottish Labour History Society newsletters, containing information

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The Labour History of Dumfries

Uncovering Working Lives: A Dumfries Labour History Trail, 1771-1914

SLHS committee member Ian Gasse has produced a booklet about labour history in Dumfries, in the form of a ‘labour history trail'. This was to have been launched, in conjunction with Dumfries

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Remembering Ian MacDougall (1933-2020)

Founder of the Scottish Labour History Society

First published: 13 April 2020

We have to record with great sadness the death of the founder of the Scottish Labour History Society, the distinguished, inspirational and

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Remembering Neil Davidson (1957-2020)

By celebration and critique, Gregor Gall commemorates the contribution of Neil Davidson

This article is reproduced by kind permission from the July/August (2020) edition of Scottish Left Review. We are grateful to SLR for being able to post it here.  SLR is at

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