Scottish Labour History Society

Historians and academics from across disciplines know how vital it is that the People’s Story continues to share Edinburgh’s working-class history. Hopefully, councillors will demonstrate the same understanding tomorrow.

For 40 years, the People’s Story has shared Edinburgh’s rich diverse working-class history with its residents and school pupils. The Scottish Labour History Society is alarmed to hear @Edinburgh_CC’s Culture and Communities Committee will vote on its closure this week. Pls share.

Thanks to @natlibscot for hosting the event and to the Scottish Working People’s History Trust and the MacDougall family for helping us to organise the event.

This evening, Jim Phillips delivered the second annual Ian MacDougall lecture on the role of oral history in the Scottish miners’ successful campaign for justice @natlibscot in Edinburgh. Former miners who were arrested and sacked during the 1984-5 strike were in the audience.

We’re looking forward to @AndyClark22’s book launch @ScotOralHist tomorrow evening in Glasgow. Fighting Deindustrialisation tells the story of three factory occupations led by Scottish women over 1981-2. Sign up here! eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

Sell and Be Damned tells the important story of the fight to say Merrylee’s council houses from being sold off in 1951. We’re supporting the publication of a new edition which is being launched on 24 November! eventbrite.com/e/sell-and-be-…

💻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-clyde-…

Greetings to all of our followers who are marking International Workers’ Day in Scotland and around the world. #MayDay

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.

‘We are not rats.’ Today is the fiftieth anniversary of Jimmy Reid’s University of Glasgow rectorial address. Professor Jim Phillips, editor of the Scottish Labour History journal, will be speaking at a commemorative meeting hosted by @UCUGlasgow. Sign up: uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/91964364285

‘We are not rats.’ Professor Jim Phillips, editor of the Scottish Labour History journal, will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Jimmy Reid’s Glasgow University rectorial Alienation speech at 1pm on 28 April. Meeting hosted by @UCUGlasgow. Sign up: uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/91964364285

@rogerneilbarton @ProfJTomlinson @UCUGlasgow 1pm

@ScotLabHistory @ProfJTomlinson @UCUGlasgow Time please

Professor Jim Phillips, the editor of the Scottish Labour History journal, will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Jimmy Reid’s University of Glasgow rectorial Alienation speech on Thursday 28 April at a meeting hosted by @UCUGlasgow. Sign up here uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/91964364285

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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

We’re looking forward to this event on Tuesday which marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the society and the 30th anniversary of the Scottish Working People’s History Trust. There’s still time to sign up!

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

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

Were you involved in picket lines in Britain between 1966 and 1998? If so, our committee member, @Kelliher_D, wants to speak to you as part of his exciting new oral history project on picketing, industrial relations and protest during the late twentieth century.