Fighting Deindustrialisation: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
Dr Andy Clark of Newcastle University introduces his latest book
Wednesday 9 Nov, 2022Andy Clark’s Fighting Industrialisation is available from the website of Liverpool University Press to Scottish Labour History readers at a special discount of 35%: quote code SLHS35
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November 2022
Wednesday 2 Nov, 2022The 2022 Edition of Scottish Labour History
Volume 57 of Scottish Labour History will be out in late November and includes a transcript of the inaugural
Reclaiming the History of the Dumfries Working Class
Mobbings, Struggles and Strikes: Episodes in the history of the organised working class of Dumfries, 1771-1914
Thursday 13 Oct, 2022Mobbings, Struggles and Strikes is the second book by local author (and Scottish Labour History Society member) Ian Gasse in his attempt to reclaim the history of the organised nineteenth
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October 2022
Friday 7 Oct, 2022100 Years of the TGWU
Unite the Union is organising an event at the Moving Image Archive, Kelvinhall, Glasgow, as part of the Unite History Project. This will take place on
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September 2022
Sunday 4 Sep, 2022The SLHS Ian MacDougall Essay Prize
The Scottish Labour History Society is pleased to announce the establishment of the Ian MacDougall Essay Prize, which will:
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The Ian MacDougall Essay Prize
Guidelines and Application Form
Saturday 27 Aug, 2022The Scottish Labour History Society is pleased to announce the establishment of the Ian MacDougall Essay Prize with a threefold purpose:
* to honour the memory of Dr. Ian MacDougall (
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August 2022
Monday 1 Aug, 2022The 2022 SLHS Conference/AGM and Lecture – preliminary information
The June SLHS committee meeting agreed in principle to a combined conference and AGM in November,
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Two articles by John McIlroy & Alan Campbell
Wednesday 27 Jul, 2022John McIlroy and Alan Campbell, ‘The Comintern, Communist women leaders and the struggle for women’s liberation in Britain between the wars: a political and prosopographical investigation, Part 1
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July 2022
Saturday 2 Jul, 2022Ian MacDougall Essay Prize Fund
A splendid response to the Ian MacDougall Essay Prize Fund, launched at the inaugural Memorial Lecture in April, has now reached £4,000,
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June 2022
Thursday 2 Jun, 2022SLHS Occasional Publications
We hope all SLHS members have received and enjoyed their exclusive advance copy of Diverse Voices, Challenging Injustice: Banner Tales from
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May 2022
Monday 2 May, 2022The Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture
On Thursday 7 April, family, friends and colleagues of the late Ian MacDougall (Scottish Labour History Society Secretary, 1961-1996)
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April 2022
Sunday 3 Apr, 2022Scottish Labour History Society Essay Prize
Having recently received several donations to support the Society’s activities, SLHS is planning to launch an annual essay
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March 2022
Tuesday 1 Mar, 2022Ian MacDougall Lecture
The inaugural lecture in memory of Scottish labour historian Ian MacDougall will take place at the King George IV Bridge site of the National Library
D J Brennan & A Searson: Haggis and Yorkshire Pudding (2021)
Review by Jim Metcalfe
Thursday 10 Feb, 2022Published by Book Empire, Leeds
Forty years on.
In just over two years, Britain’s coalfields will mark four decades since the triggering of the seminal 1984-5 Miners’ Strike.
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February 2022
Tuesday 1 Feb, 2022Inaugural Ian MacDougall Lecture – and Diverse Voices Launch
Full details of the first lecture in memory of Scottish labour historian Ian MacDougall are not yet
Charles Benson: The Dublin Book Trade 1801-1850 (2021)
Review by Robert Laurie
Saturday 15 Jan, 2022London: The Bibliographical Society, 2021, pp. xvii, 157, ISBN 978 0 948170 25 6
Available to non-members from the Lilliput Press, Dublin, price 30.00 Euros.
Despite
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January 2022
Sunday 2 Jan, 2022SLHS 60th Anniversary Event
The joint SLHS 60th anniversary/Scottish Working People’s History Trust 30th anniversary event took place successfully on 30 November, hosted by
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December 2021
Thursday 2 Dec, 2021News from SLHS
The 2021 edition of Scottish Labour History, the society’s peer-reviewed journal, will be distributed over the next few weeks. With it will come a
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November 2021
Monday 1 Nov, 2021‘Hard Work, Ye Ken': The Past, Present, and Future of Scottish Labour History
On 30th November the National Library of Scotland (NLS) is hosting a celebration of the work of
Something to Build On
Co-operation in C19 Dumfries
Sunday 10 Oct, 2021In conjunction with SLHS, committee member and website administrator Ian Gasse has published a history of the co-operative movement in Dumfries from the mid-nineteenth century down to the First
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