Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
August 2023
Wednesday 2 Aug, 2023SLHS John Maclean Centenary Conference
Preparations for the John Maclean Conference are well advanced and the programme is nearing completion. SLHS is offering first choice
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
July 2023
Saturday 1 Jul, 2023Willie Thompson (1939-2024)
With great sadness we must report the death of Willie Thompson, a longstanding member of the Scottish Labour History Society, occasional member
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
June 2023
Thursday 1 Jun, 2023SLHS John Maclean Conference, 18 November 2023
Fund-raising for the conference has gone extraordinarily well with over £1000 raised, and donations of a venue and speakers'
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
May 2023
Monday 1 May, 2023SLHS 2023 Conference on John Maclean
The Scottish Labour History Society is organising a conference to mark the centenary of the death of Clydeside revolutionary John
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Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
April 2023
Sunday 2 Apr, 2023SLHS 2023 Conference on John Maclean
The SLHS conference marking the centenary of the death of Clydeside socialist and campaigner John Maclean will take place on Saturday
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
March 2023
Friday 17 Mar, 2023Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture 2023
The second Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture will take place in the Boardroom of the National Library of Scotland (NLS), Edinburgh, on
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
February 2023
Thursday 2 Feb, 2023Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture at NLS in April
Following the death of SLHS founder Ian MacDougall in 2020, SLHS, with the Scottish Working People's History Trust and
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
January 2023
Wednesday 4 Jan, 2023With Best Wishes for 2023
All members should now have received their copy of Volume 57 of Scottish Labour History, together with a free copy of Sell and Be
Coal, Community and Change
Scottish Area NUM march passes Annesley Colliery, Coal Crisis, December 1992
Tuesday 6 Dec, 2022An iconic image included as part of the 2019 Nottingham Trent University exhibition, ‘Coal, Community and Change 1965-2015’, is a protest march by the Scottish Area of the National Union of
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December 2022
Wednesday 30 Nov, 2022Journal and Publication Update
Volume 57 of Scottish Labour History is printed and will be mailed out shortly. SLHS subscribers will also receive our new Occasional
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
Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter
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,