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Alfie Hancox @alfiehancox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Excited to have my chapter included in this book out next week from @cataratalibros.bsky.social on anti-racist struggle and trade unionism Lots of great looking chapters “drawing together experiences from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, colonial Africa and Spain.”

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Glasgow book launch. The Glasgow book launch for my new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is being held at Glasgow University at 6pm on Thursday 29 October. You're all welcome! Sign up here 🔽 It's free!

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An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class

Join us on Thursday 29 October for this event which is part of the University of Glasgow's Festival for Social Sciences offering.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My article on 'The True Conservationists' was published in a special edition of Contemporary British History on rethinking working-class politics. The special issues also features articles on slavery and emancipation, race and class, seafarers and Brexit.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'Green' and 'class' politics are often viewed as mutually hostile to each other. My research explores how British miners, electricity workers and builders articulated a distinctive working-class environmental politics in the 1970s and 80s. You can read my new article here.

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‘The true conservationists’: British trade union environmental politics in the late twentieth century

This article demonstrates British energy trade unionists engaged intently with environmental debates during the 1970s and 1980s. These findings challenge dominant interpretations of the emergence o...

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Diarmaid Kelliher @diarmaidkelliher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Delighted to have this special issue on Labour History and 'Brexit Britain' out, co-edited with Laura Schwartz (who was really the force behind it) and Aditya Sarkar. It's been a long time in the making, but I'm very pleased with the result. All open access. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcbh20/4...

Table of contents for special issue of Contemporary British History. Text in image reads:

Special Issue: Ordinary Working-Class People? Labour History and 'Brexit Britain'
Guest Editors: Diarmaid Kelliher, Aditya Sarkar and Laura Schwartz
Articles
323 Ordinary working-class people? Labour history and ‘Brexit Britain’
Diarmaid Kelliher, Aditya Sarkar and Laura Schwartz
345 The gender politics of the ‘white working class’: a feminist history of Brexit Britain
Laura Schwartz
375 Compensated emancipation from the metropolitan below: class, taxation, and the Slavery Abolition Act (1833)
Zach Sell
409 Port cities, working-class organising and maritime internationalism: left multiculture and the politics of place in Cardiff and Liverpool, 1930–1953
David Featherstone
434 Remaking Coventry: race, caste and labour in the South Asian diaspora, 1960–1990
Somak Biswas
457 ‘The true conservationists’: British trade union environmental politics in the late twentieth century
Ewan Gibbs
482 Popular perceptions of the politics of class in Brexit Britain: perspectives from Mass Observation
Jonathan Moss and Emily Robinson

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Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Delighted to see this issue of CBH published.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is coming out in October. You can preorder it from Waterstones with a 25% discount today and tomorrow! Place your order here ⬇️ www.waterstones.com/book/an-inju...

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nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

looking forward to this tomorrow - book below if you fancy it

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Diarmaid Kelliher @diarmaidkelliher.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

New article in English Historical Review (@enghistrev.bsky.social) on 'Thatcherism & the Picket Line'. Looks at relationship between picketing & Conservatives esp. in 1980s, but also the legacy into the 1990s. Of relevance, I think, to upcoming Orgreave inquiry. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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This article explores the relationship between Thatcherism and the picket line. The picket line in late twentieth-century Britain was a space in which ideologies were directly contested, and the power of law, police, courts and trade unionism came into conflict. Reshaping picketing was essential to Thatcherism’s broader goal to restructure industrial relations. The paper first considers the new picketing regulations of the 1980s, focusing on how these directly responded to the often effective strike tactics of the 1970s. The new rules, however, were ignored in several major industrial disputes. The second part of the article shows how the picketing regulations were reinforced in the face of this challenge by intensive state, court and employer action, resistance to which was weakened by the labour movement’s internal divisions. As a result, the third section demonstrates how the new industrial relations regime came to be largely internalised by trade unions and their members in the 1990s. By the end of this period, the picket line had been transformed profoundly, becoming typically smaller, less mobile and more orderly. The history of picketing centres Thatcherism as a political project that used state power to reconfigure industrial relations in Britain, transforming the legal landscape within which trade unions operated and the broader cultural norms in which the power of picket lines was ultimately rooted. It emphasises that the weakening of workers as collective agents was a central, broadly coherent and, in many ways, successful feature of Thatcherism.

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🚨It’s publication day!🚨 My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops! Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you! Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

CONFERENCE - 'Sociability & Political Life', University of York, 3rd/4th July 2026 Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!

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Rachel Collett @racheljcollett.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If you don’t get the print version, my Tribune article on the Merseyside WLM is now available to read for free online: tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/the-...

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Women and the Miners’ Strike, 1984–1985. By Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaiteand Natalie Thomlinson; Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike. By Diarmaid Kelliher @diarmaidkelliher.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Marking the anniversary of the Miners' Strike of 1984/5, Keith Gildart reflects on a selection of recent titles in a new Review Article: 'Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... #MinersStrike

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Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5

The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the bitter twelve-month miners’ strike of 1984/5. The dominance of coal in British energy produc

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Diarmaid Kelliher @diarmaidkelliher.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Very pleased that my book is among the writing reviewed in this essay

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Vol. 89 is out! sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/89/suppl/C Take a look at the contents below 🧵 1/42

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 25/09/2025

Can a rock band make history? Glasgow rock band, the Tenementals (@tenementals.bsky.social) explore what it means to create radical history through music.

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Can A Rock Band Make History?

A Glasgow rock band, The Tenementals, explore what it would mean to create radical history through music.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 25/09/2025

Why did 155 nursery workers employed by London’s Islington Council go on strike in 1984 – and why has their story been forgotten? Former strikers join present-day childcare workers and activists to reflect on how the action developed and the lessons it holds for us now.

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The 1984 Islington Nursery Strike

Why did 155 nursery workers employed by London's Islington Council go on strike in 1984 - and why has their story been forgotten?

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