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Scottish Labour History Society Newsletter

April 2021

Monday 5 Apr, 2021

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 –

March 2021

Friday 12 Mar, 2021

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

February 2021

Monday 25 Jan, 2021

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

January 2021

Friday 1 Jan, 2021

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

December 2020

Friday 4 Dec, 2020

British 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

Memories of a Great-Grandfather by Esther Davies

Thursday 26 Nov, 2020

Alexander (“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

November 2020

Sunday 1 Nov, 2020

Welcome 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

October 2020

Sunday 4 Oct, 2020

Welcome to the October 2020 edition of the SLHS newsletter.

Scottish Labour History – Volume 55:
The 2020 edition of Scottish Labour History is due out in

September 2020

Wednesday 9 Sep, 2020

Welcome 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 no.

Summer 2020

Saturday 25 Jul, 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 from

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

Monday 20 Jul, 2020

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

Founder of the Scottish Labour History Society

Wednesday 8 Jul, 2020

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

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

Wednesday 8 Jul, 2020

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

Glasgow, Saturday 15 September 2019

Thursday 24 Oct, 2019

Dr Valerie Wright, Research Associate: 'Employment, Politics & Culture in Scotland, 1955-2015', in the Economic & Social History Department of the

A digital reproduction from Winter 1997/Spring 1998

Friday 11 Oct, 2019

The eleventh and final edition of Scottish Labour History Review, published in the winter of 1997.

The introduction of the new Scottish Labour History Society website offers an