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
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
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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October 2021
Tuesday 5 Oct, 202160 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
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September 2021
Wednesday 1 Sep, 2021Subscription Increase – Final Reminder
It was agreed at the SLHS June AGM that subscriptions should be increased, as the annual journal production and website maintenance
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August 2021
Monday 2 Aug, 2021Subscription 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
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July 2021
Thursday 1 Jul, 2021PayPal 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
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
June 2021
Sunday 30 May, 2021SLHS 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’)
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
May 2021
Monday 3 May, 2021Picket 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’,
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April 2021
Monday 5 Apr, 2021Scottish 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
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
March 2021
Friday 12 Mar, 2021PayPal 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
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February 2021
Monday 25 Jan, 202150 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
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January 2021
Friday 1 Jan, 2021History 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
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December 2020
Friday 4 Dec, 2020British Library Sound Archive Resource
The British Library has over 6.5 million recordings of speech, music and other material, providing a rich resource for scholars and
Alexander Sloan (1879-1945), MP for South Ayrshire
Memories of a Great-Grandfather by Esther Davies
Thursday 26 Nov, 2020Alexander (“Sanny”) Sloan is best known as the former Labour MP for South Ayrshire, a position he held following a 1939 by-election until his death in November 1945. Below we feature a
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November 2020
Sunday 1 Nov, 2020Welcome to the November 2020 edition of the SLHS newsletter.
Symposium on the Future of Labour History
As noted in last month’s newsletter, the 2020
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October 2020
Sunday 4 Oct, 2020Welcome to the October 2020 edition of the SLHS newsletter.
Scottish Labour History – Volume 55:
The 2020 edition of Scottish Labour History is due out
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September 2020
Wednesday 9 Sep, 2020Welcome to the September 2020 edition of the SLHS newsletter.
Desperately Seeking Early Journals: SLHS is trying to assemble a full set of SLH journals, from