An independent organisation promoting the study and discussion of labour and working-class history in Scotland. Founded in 1966.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined January 2018
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Scottish Labour History Society retweeted
💻Online event on the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders leaders and campaigns.
Featuring our Prof. Jim Phillips and organised by the Jimmy Reid Foundation & @ScotLabHistory
🗓️Thursday 16th June, 7pm
Register ⬇️eventbrite.co.uk/e/upper-cly…
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The Great May Day Cabaret is back and Scottish poetry is well represented with @IonaLeepoetry and Ghazi Hussein tonight in Edinburgh & @moxham_rosa and @vmcnulty67 tomorrow night in Glasgow, hosted by yours truly.
Scottish Labour History Society retweeted
30 years ago in 1991, Sell and Be Damned - The Merrilee Housing Scandal of 1951 - by Ned Donaldson (My Da) & Les Forster told the story. @Radical_Glasgow @Living_Rent @spiritofrevolt1
Scottish Labour History Society retweeted
Looking forward to taking part in this Q&A with Caroline Milligan and @ewangibbs - it's online - see some of you there hopefully. @ScotLabHistory @WomensHistScot @ScotOralHist @NCL_OralHistory
Book your free ticket for Hard Work, Ye Ken: The Past, Present, and Future of Scottish Labour History on Tue, 30 November, 5pm. This online talk will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A > eventbrite.ca/e/hard-work-ye…
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Thursday 5 August. 7 pm. Online meeting: The politics of deindustrialisation in Scotland & northern England. DM @processnorth or @demleftscotland for more details. @ewangibbs @ScotLabHistory @SamTedcastle @CfGRAbdulRahim @ProfGildart @ProfPerchard @DIndustrialKent @GerryHassan
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How many times have I shared this image? Not sure! #MayDay2020 seems as good an excuse as any. Glasgow Rent Strikers 1915. Celebrating the victories of those that went before us. The fight for fair rents continues today @Glasgow_LR @ScotLabHistory @WomensHistScot
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Went to see Jackie Kay on Friday evening at #PBF2020 and I'm still thinking about her poem 'Darling' - beautiful.
"The dead don’t go till you do, loved ones.
The dead are still here holding our hands".
Also loved her new poem about Paul Robeson (one for @ScotLabHistory )
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A New Year's message from 1952 that rings as true in 2020. The Young Socialist was a magazine produced by and for Socialist Sunday Schools. From the Papers of Jane McKay at #GCUArchives. Happy New Year!
ALT Illustration of children making snowman. Cover of Young Socialist winter 1952
Scottish Labour History Society retweeted
Great event by @ScotLabHistory hearing from Dr Laura Schwartz on her book on domestic servants and feminism. Introduced by @VAWright10 and @AnabelMarsh will be talking about local suffragette Jessie Stephens. All welcome!
In the early 20th century, domestic servants were the largest occupational group but they're missing from the historical record. Dr Laura Schwartz has written an important corrective and will be launching her book on Wed 11 Dec 6pm at the Mitchell Library. glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/f…
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Very much looking forward to Prof Eleanor Gordon's lecture!! 'Sex and the Single Girl: Working-class courtship in Scotland, 1855-1930'. Hope to see lots of you there. Don't miss it! Pls RT @GUGENDERHISTORY @ScotLabHistory
Our Sue Innes Memorial Lecture is a **FREE** event - kindly hosted by @HCAatEdinburgh - but you do have to book a ticket! This year Professor Eleanor Gordon will be discussing 'Sex and the Single Girl: Working-Class Courtship in Scotland, 1855-1939'.
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Scottish Labour History Society retweeted
Excited to be chairing the first of a series of public lectures organised jointly between @GC_Archives and @ScotLabHistory at the Mitchell Library on Thursday night. @ewangibbs, John Brannan and John Gillen discuss the Caterpillar occupation - glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/t…
Scottish Labour History Society retweeted
The Common Struggle of Paul Robeson
Today 13:30
BBC Radio Scotland
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009d8…
@ScotLabHistory , @Henbell
Scottish Labour History Society retweeted
Are you planning a local event to mark the bicentennial of the Radical Rising of 1820? Thinking about it? @jeanmcameron and @AnneMcLaughlin want to know! Open meeting on Friday 11 October in Glasgow. Pls spread the word!! @WomensHistScot @ScotLabHistory @ScotHistNetwork
📣OPEN MEETING 📣 Fri 11 OCT | 4-6pm | Glasgow city centre. Join @AnneMcLaughlin & @jeanmcameron map what plans are already in place and share what ideas are developing to mark the bicentennial of the Radical Rising of 1820 #1820radical Sign Up 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-1…
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The extraordinary Annie Besant - writer, socialist, and women’s rights pioneer - was born #OnThisDay in 1847.
In 1884, she became the first woman to speak at the #DurhamMinersGala. (1/2)
Scottish Labour History Society retweeted
So proud of being creative writing officer for #KitchenConversations, women's stories of #Winchburgh now and then, for @WinchburghC supported by @heritagelottery. Launch is Thurs 19th, joint with #ItsABingThing a new public artwork. Be there 11.30 #Winchburgh!! @LoveWestLothian
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'They were intellectuals and they were not ashamed of it.' James Kelman on John Maclean and his place in Scotland's trajectory of humanist working-class radicalism. @ScotLabHistory #Maclean100 is packed.
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Tonight @ScotLabHistory are hosting James Kelman, @heirofthecursed, @DeclanWelsh, Arthur Johnstone and others to mark 100 years since John Maclean came home to the Clyde. All proceeds to @Living_Rent. Stereo. 7pm. Tickets £5-10 here: stereocafebar.com/events/201…
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Paul's battling straw men again. The retreat of labour history was part of the cultural defeat suffered by the trade union movement over the last 30 years. My experience is young activists are eager to learn about working-class struggles @LabourCfS and @ScotLabHistory events.
Scottish Labour History Society retweeted
So the @GlasgowDOD programme is up!! I'm doing a walking tour with Esther Quinn for @ScotLabHistory entitled 'Women, War, Rent Strikes, Revolution'. You can book from the 22nd of August at 10am here:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-war…
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En route to @UniWestScotland in Paisley for our one-day workshop ‘Rethinking Radical Scotland: Cultural and Social Transformation Since 1968’ - who’s all coming? #RadScot68 eventbrite.co.uk/e/rethinkin…