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Willie 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 of our committee, contributor to Scottish Labour History and generous donor to ...

SLHS 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' expenses. The Society is very grateful to all donors and notably to the ...

SLHS 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 Maclean, to take place in Glasgow on Saturday 18 November 2023. A generous response ...

SLHS 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 18th November at the Unite Offices in Glasgow. November 23rd marks the actual ...

Ian 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 Thursday 20 April at 5pm. This year's lecturer is Professor Jim Phillips of the ...

Ian 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 National Library of Scotland (NLS), has inaugurated an annual Ian MacDougall ...

With 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 Damned, the reprint of the account of the 1951 Merrylee building workers’ strike to prevent ...

Journal 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 Publication. Sell and Be Damned reprints the story of the 1951 Merrylee building ...

The 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 Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture given by Professor Lynn Abrams of Glasgow University, on the ...

100 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 Wednesday 12 October, from 4.30pm to 8pm, and will comprise a series of ...