News & Events

The 2023 edition of Scottish Labour History will be mailed out to members in the week beginning Monday 4th December.

Members attending the Society's John Maclean Centenary…

The Scottish Labour History Society is pleased to annouce this year's Ian MacDougall Essay Prize.
The aim of the Prize is threefold:

*   to honour the memory of Dr. Ian MacDougall (…

Following the threat to the funding of arts and humanities courses at UK universities announced by the Westminster Government, the Royal Historical Society and the Society for the Study of Labour…

We are able to announce that we now (late January 2021) have the complete set of back issues of the Scottish Labour History Society journals – from 1969 to 2020 – online and available to read and…

The second of two articles commemorating the centenary of the British Communist Party is now available and should be of interest to members of the SLHS as it deals extensively with a number of…

On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry, 1947-1994 is an Arts & Humanities Research Council funded project led by Keith Gildart (University of…

It is with great sadness we have to record the death of former Labour MP – and SLHS member – Maria Fyfe, who passed away on Thursday 3rd December.

Born in Glasgow, the daughter of a tram…

The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th…

Through its OpenLearn website, which offers free learning opportunities and courses, the Open University has developed a range of material exploring the origins and events surrounding Red…

Two new books are out to mark the 200th anniversary of the Radical Rising in Scotland of 1820 and both are reviewed in the July/August issue of Scottish Left Review (SLR).

They…

Former Scottish Labour History Society secretary Chris Miller has recently had Planning and Profits: British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941…

Members of the Scottish Labour History Society have had several articles published in recent journals, which may be of general interest to members and others.

The list, taken from SLHS…

Scottish Labour History co-editor Jim Phillips has a new book out.

Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) examines the role coal…

John Maclean's 1918 speech from the dock has become immortalised as a defining moment of a distinctive Scottish radical tradition, symbolising 'working-class morality' against the 'capitalist…