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🗃️ #LabourHistory
Our starter pack includes historians, archivists, librarians and writers working on labour history. Let us know if we’ve missed anyone
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November 7, 2024 at 9:01 AM
susieprotschky.bsky.social
New article! Open access - ‘Indonesian Tourism Workers on Volcanoes and Geotourism's Colonial Origins: Making a Subaltern History Visible’

#indonesia #photography #volcanoes #labourhistory #colonialism #tourism 🇮🇩📷🌋

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January 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Our own #LabourHistory starter pack is mostly (not entirely) UK oriented. If you’re looking for something a bit more US #LaborHistory, try this from @willpjones.bsky.social 👇
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December 2, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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#LabourHistory #Archives @mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Long thought to have been destroyed, the missing records of the mining trade union NACODS have been rediscovered and saved for posterity.
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Shopfronts in a brick terrace. Over one is a sign reading National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies & Shotfirers.
January 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
scientistsoph.bsky.social
Excited to see that RWLD has joined Bluesky! Long may the #RailHistory and #LabourHistory discussions continue...
rwldproject.bsky.social OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · Nov 11
Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project BlueSky account!

Check our expanding database of British & Irish railway worker accidents, covering the later 19th & early 20th centuries - all free!

Currently over 48,000 cases, with more to come.

railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
Posed 1930s accident prevention photo, showing a worker standing between tracks, about to be hit by a steam train approaching unseen from behind. Posed 1920s safety photo, showing a driver near the front of a steam loco as it was moving, warning of the dangers of leaving the cab whilst the engine was travelling. Posed 1920s safety photo showing a worker having stumbled and fallen in front of a train, as he tried to cross the line. Infographic showing the number of workers killed and injured on Britain and Ireland's railways and whose accidents were investigated, between 1911 and 1915. This was the first run of data we produced, of around 4000 cases, now hugely expanded.
November 11, 2024 at 4:18 PM
mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Great to see that our colleagues @rwldproject.bsky.social have just joined Bluesky!

A good follow for anyone interested in #labourhistory , #histmed , #genealogy and more!
rwldproject.bsky.social OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · Nov 11
Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project BlueSky account!

Check our expanding database of British & Irish railway worker accidents, covering the later 19th & early 20th centuries - all free!

Currently over 48,000 cases, with more to come.

railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
Posed 1930s accident prevention photo, showing a worker standing between tracks, about to be hit by a steam train approaching unseen from behind. Posed 1920s safety photo, showing a driver near the front of a steam loco as it was moving, warning of the dangers of leaving the cab whilst the engine was travelling. Posed 1920s safety photo showing a worker having stumbled and fallen in front of a train, as he tried to cross the line. Infographic showing the number of workers killed and injured on Britain and Ireland's railways and whose accidents were investigated, between 1911 and 1915. This was the first run of data we produced, of around 4000 cases, now hugely expanded.
November 11, 2024 at 3:23 PM
sslh.bsky.social
Reserve your free ticket - places strictly limited.
#Chartism #LabourHistory
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John Halstead Memorial Lecture 2025
Professor Peter Gurney will deliver the fourth John L. Halstead Memorial Lecture at the John Rylands Library, Manchester
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April 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
sslh.bsky.social
#LabourHistory
New video now on the website
Dr Natalie Thomlinson delivers our annual lecture for 2024 on 'the miners’ strike of 1984-5 in popular memory'. sslh.org.uk/2024/11/15/v...
November 15, 2024 at 11:44 AM
ucdpress.bsky.social
Today marks the birthday of Irish radical republican Michael Davitt (1846–1906), founder of the National Land League and lifelong defender of workers’ rights.

📚 Learn more about Davitt with a selection of books from UCD Press at www.ucdpress.ie

#IrishHistory #MichaelDavitt #LabourHistory
March 25, 2026 at 3:37 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
A Logger's Life Before Confederation

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#envhist #labourhistory #cdnhist
A Logger's Life Before Confederation
YouTube video by Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website
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April 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
rlshistory.bsky.social
Spannend!!
Call zur Konferenz 2026 dieses wichtigen, transnationalen Netzwerkes von Labour Historians! #labourhistory #ecology #power
ithvienna.bsky.social ITH @ithvienna.bsky.social · Oct 24
📣 Call for Papers!
The 61st ITH Conference will take place in Linz, 17–19 September 2026 🗓️
Next year’s theme:
🌱⚒️ “Working nature – exploring intersections of labour history and political ecology”
📝 Submission deadline: 30 January 2026
🔗 www.ith.or.at/en/cfp-61st-...
CfP: 61st ITH Conference: Working nature – exploring intersections of labour history and political ecology | ITH - Internationale Tagung der HistorikerInnen der Arbeiter- und anderer sozialer Bewegung...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
1/13 🇨🇦 AIR CANADA FLIGHT ATTENDANTS CREATED LABOUR HISTORY IN 'PERFECT STORM' 🇨🇦

First union to defy federal back-to-work order. Woman-dominated workforce broke a pattern of government strike-breaking.

Emma Arkell reports for PressProgress.
#LabourHistory #FlightAttendants
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September 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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"Deutlich wird dabei, welche zentrale Bedeutung Machtasymmetrien und Hierarchien für Gewalt am Arbeitsplatz spiel(t)en." #Arbeitsgeschichte #Labourhistory
Rezension zum von unserer Beirätinnen @mareenheying.bsky.social und @nkleinoeder.bsky.social mit herausgegebenen Buch.
hsozkult.bsky.social H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · Mar 11
Rez: M. Heying u.a. (Hrsg.): Verschwiegener Alltag

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-156152

M. Heying u.a. (Hrsg.): Verschwiegener Alltag
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March 12, 2026 at 10:23 AM
sslh.bsky.social
Happy New Year.
Here are ten #LabourHistory anniversaries for 2025
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Ten labour history anniversaries in 2025
Our annual review of labour history anniversaries takes in the shifting legal framework for trade unions, the first legislation on sex discrimination and equal pay, and the lead up to the General S…
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January 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
sslh.bsky.social
#LabourHistory
New issue from our friends at the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History with @livunipress.bsky.social
livunipress.bsky.social Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Nov 19
NEW ISSUE | Volume 127 is devoted to #UnionHistory. Including contributions on the causes of union decline, the United Automobile Workers (UAW) in the 1950s, and the foundation of the Council for Aboriginal Rights in 1951. Browse the full issue 👉 bit.ly/Labour-History-Vol-127
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An image of an illustration of workers marching with a sign that reads 'we wont pay 6D!! We will strike first' sits in the background in a sepia tone. Journal cover for Labour History features the full illustration of line drawings of another group of people walking towards a place with the a sign in the forefront reading 'beer town', a woman handing a man a drink over a bar, and three police offers standing around with one leaning against a post. Text reading 'the premier outlet for refereed, scholarly articles in the fields of social and labour history in Australasia. LUP 125th anniversary logo and the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.
November 19, 2024 at 7:02 PM
sslh.bsky.social
From ‘Captain Swing’ to ‘Wham! Rap’, our panelists nominate the best of #LabourHistory in song
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Woman in 18th century costume sings; man plays fiddle; pub scene from BBC drama The Gallows Pole.
December 7, 2024 at 8:15 AM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"Slavery combined with cheap fish made for cheap labour, which in turn made for cheap sugar. Some of this sugar returned to the Northeast and became rum in New England distilleries." - Sandy Hunter

niche-canada.org/2023/01/31/c...

#envhist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Codfish drying on the Newfoundland waterfront, pre-1892.
September 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
davidwellerart.bsky.social
Thinking about the Miners’ Strike through lino printmaking — mass movement, private grief, collective strength. #linocut #printmaking #minersstrike #labourhistory #politicalart solidarity reliefprint
January 7, 2026 at 9:32 PM
sslh.bsky.social
🗃️ #C19th #LabourHistory
The Peterloo massacre took place #OnThisDay 16 August 1819. Looking for archival resources? Download our free guide at sslh.org.uk/2019/05/01/s...
Sources for Peterloo
The Society for the Study of Labour History has published a guide to archival resources on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. Download it in PDF format. A coloured print of the Peterloo Massacre published...
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August 16, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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Looking for labour history? Here’s a list of historians, archivists, librarians, writers and others who focus on #LabourHistory. If you’re not on the list but should be, let us know!
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August 16, 2024 at 10:13 AM
sslh.bsky.social
🗃️Lots of great people working on #LabourHistory and labour history-adjacent areas in this starter pack. If you want in (or want out), let us know
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August 25, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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Hello, @mrcwarwick.bsky.social. Welcome to Bluesky. Fully expect everyone already knows the Modern Records Centre is a fantastic #LabourHistory (and other things) archive. Do follow.
mrcwarwick.bsky.social Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · Oct 8
Beginning to sort out our archival content for Bluesky!

Follow the MRC for
- fantastic archive sources
- details of digitised resources
- collections updates
- NUM project news & more...

We're looking forward to sharing our collections & (re)connecting with researchers old & new
The Modern Records Centre's seminar room. Three sets of grey tables have been laid out with a selection of archives. A statue of Tom Mann can just about be seen through a glass wall in the exhibition space behind.
October 8, 2024 at 2:27 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Today we are sharing Ariane Gauthier's piece on the "The Kapuskasing Internment Camp."

This post was originally published on the @library-archives.bsky.social blog.

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#cdnhist #envhist #labourhistory #warhistory
The Kapuskasing Internment Camp
Kapuskasing internment camp (1914–1920) confined mainly Ukrainian civilians, forcing labour under harsh conditions; archival records preserve internee and guard perspectives.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Watch: "Women of the Inshore Fishery" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-S...

Read: "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett - niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Women of the Inshore Fishery
YouTube video by Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website
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December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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If you’re looking for historians, archivists, librarians and writers on #LabourHistory, try our starter pack…
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October 10, 2024 at 12:34 PM