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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Missed this year's Chartism Day, or wish to revisit the highlights? Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social reports on a memorable day at the Friends Meeting House in Warwick. Read his report on the latest research on Chartism here: sslh.org.uk/2026/09/22/c...

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Chartism Day 2026: conference report

Some fifty delegates crowded into the seventeenth-century Friends Meeting House at Warwick on Saturday 19 September for Chartism Day 2026 to hear speakers range across the history and historiograph…

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You can get 20% off my new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, from bookshop.org and help support independent bookshops!

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Looking forward to Chartism Day in Warwick tomorrow. Just heading up to lead a town walk of points of interest for early arrivers . . .

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INDY-HIST @indy-hist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Chartism Day 19 Sept 2026 Warwick Chartism Day was launched in 1995 by Chartist historian Dorothy Thompson (1923–2011) This year's event is at the Friends Meeting House, Warwick Tickets £12 inc. refreshments and buffet lunch: tinyurl.com/chartismday

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

With Amelia Clegg at @historylabplus.bsky.social Network Scotland

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Enjoying Dr Ewan Gibbs’s talk about his book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class @ewangibbs.bsky.social @historylabplus.bsky.social

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

… even the Glasgow rain couldn’t dampen the tour conducted by the excellent @kamack.bsky.social Katherine Mackinnon of Glasgow Radical History Tours @historylabplus.bsky.social

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Now at Govan memorial to Mary Barbour of early 20th century Red Clydeside movement and Peace Crusade.[

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m on Glasgow Green, site of 1838 launch of People’s Charter by Rev. Arthur Wade. It’s a massive public space which could easily have accommodated the reported crowd of 100,000

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m on Glasgow Green, site of the 1838 launch of the People’s Charter by Rev. Arthur Wade . This is a massive public space which could easily have accomdated the reported 100,000 crowd

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

… even the Glasgow rain couldn’t dampen the tour conducted by the excellent @kamack.bsky.social Katherine Mackinnon of Glasgow Radical History Tours @historylabplus.bsky.social

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We rounded off the day with a walk through Glasgow’s radical past featuring, among others, Suffragette direct action , 70s radical poets, student occupations , Jimmy Reid’s Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in and the indomitable Teacher/freedom fighter, Margaret Skinnider, pictured here

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Enjoying Dr Ewan Gibbs’s talk about his book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class @ewangibbs.bsky.social @historylabplus.bsky.social

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm looking forward to going to Glasgow for this . . .

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m looking forward to Chartism Day. I’ll be giving a paper on local Chartist, Rev. Arthur Wade

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Registration is open for this important workshop . . .

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Look forward to giving my paper on Rev. Arthur Wade

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Looking forward to this being in the midlands this year.

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

At last - Routledge have set a publication date for my book on their website:

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Back at Lancaster University to give my Social History Society Conference paper on New Palace Yard 54 years after coming here for an interview and failing to get a place.

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’ll be there - giving a paper on nineteenth century meetings in New Palace Yard

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Great new network of Independent Historians

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

At last - a good news story. This look like an amazing piece of work.

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Exciting new book series. Just what I’ve been waiting for

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Just got this Henry Hunt medal celebrating his election as MP for Preston, Dec. 24 1830.

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INDY-HIST @indy-hist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

REMINDER ABOUT THURSDAY'S INDY-HIST MEETING Thurs. 16 April 6pm on Zoom Opportunity to discuss what we want to say to RHS council members in May. Meeting Link. www.bit.ly/INDY-HIST-ZOOM Full link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8946886836... Meeting ID: 894 6886 8369 Passcode: 920307

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Submitted my edited book manuscript to the publishers. Pheww! Now the long wait begins…

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Looking forward to this meeting . . .

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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

In this Open Access article, @drdavesteele.bsky.social explores bodily and sensory experiences in the crowds formed by the reform movement from 1816-1848, offering new perspectives on the lived experience of popular politics and the mass platform. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48*

This article considers the roles that the body and the senses played in shaping the dynamics of 19th-century reform crowds in Britain. Acoustics, terrain, timing, weather and corporeal issues of hung...

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Even better! All articles are now Open Access until June 30

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Thanks Katrina. I’m in good company in this collection, available: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17500206...

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

My article ‘The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48’ has been published in Parliamentary History Journal 45-1 (2026) Thanks to Naomi Lloyd-Jones for a great job editing Read/download here (open source): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48*

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I’ve never been to Billing Aquadrome

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

My article on extra-parliamentary activity in New Palace Yard is featured today on the Society for the Study of Labour History’s series on places of significance in labour history . . .

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Leamington Peace Festival is coming back but we need your help. Can you donate to our crowdfunder? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/peace-fest...

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Leamington Peace Festival Reboot

Seed fundraising round

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Apparently it’s 100 years since the introduction of the Photobooth. In a bizarre twist it was 50 years ago that I took this Photobooth selfie complete with roll up and fag-burn on my Rupert-the-bear scarf. What was I thinking?

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Looking forward to tomorrow's intriguing session on a collaborative project to improve the digitisation of handwritten wills. Join us at 5pm Weds. Free registration : www.bit.ly/dig-cit-sci

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Digitization & citizen science

Warwick History ‘Post-Doc’ club present: DIGITIZATION & CITIZEN SCIENCE – Inviting collaborative research to transcribe handwriting

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