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

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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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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The book launch will feature conversation with scholars of working-class history and class in Britain today: @tajali1.bsky.social, author of Come What May We're Here to Stay, @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, author of Class and Everyday Life and Jim Phillips, historian of the miners' strike in Scotland.

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

eventbrite.co.uk

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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Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For anyone attending the HM conference: this should be a great event to discuss and celebrate two amazing books.

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Back out running 🏃‍♂️

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Just the petroleum kind unfortunately!

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Don't worry, it'll be a good few years yet.

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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looking forward to the London leg of the An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class tour. I'm having a double book launch with Jonas Marvin's The Breaking of the English Working Class at Historical Materialism with commentary by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social and Matt Myers.

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OUT NOW! We have a new bonus podcast with our Deputy Director Lena Swedlow, @ewangibbs.bsky.social and @rosiehampton.bsky.social on the upcoming decisions on Rosebank and Jackdaw. Out now wherever you get your podcasts - and we hope you love our fancy new podcast graphics!

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Tomorrow I'm giving a talk for the Political Economic Futures Forum at Glasgow University on my new writing project, Carbon Citizens: A People's History of Britain's Energy Order. It's a human history of the energy transformations which have shaped British politics and society. Details 🔽

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You’d have no idea she spent the evening scurrying across the kitchen table where she knows she’s not meant to be.

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Argonaut Books - Leith's Independent Bookshop

Edinburgh book launch! I’m going to be having an Edinburgh book launch for An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class on the evening of Tuesday 27 October. Venue and time will be confirmed soon. Save the date! Get your tickets 🔽

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We are Argonaut Books, a community bookshop for Leith, Edinburgh. We hold a curated selection of books; we only stock books that we are genuinely passionate about. We specialise in Science Fiction, Fa...

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From the picket lines of the Miners' Strike to the Amazon warehouses of today, the British working class has been pushed from the center of political life to its margins, though not without a fight. B...

The launch coincides with the publication date of An Injury To All. My book answers the question of what happened to the British working class? through the words and experiences of miners, factory hands, care home staff and Amazon warehouse workers. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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An Injury to All

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Argonaut Books - Leith's Independent Bookshop

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They were largely known as German Biscuits before the First World War!

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Red Herring or Red Line?: The Politics of the Rosebank and Jackdaw Oil and Gas Field Decisions

The North Sea has become a dominant issue in Scottish and British politics. I had a chat about the long running debate over l oil and gas licensing on the It’s Bloody Complicated podcast with my good friend @rosiehampton.bsky.social. You can listen here 🔽

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It's Bloody Complicated - A Compass Podcast · Episode

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And yet they got home and thought they must write to a newspaper to air their views!

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Marx’s Capital is all about coat and linen!

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I’m not sure how this Herald reader imagines that we could plausibly ‘keep politics out of galleries’. It seems much more likely they object to the particular interpretations which sought to place exhibits in a historical context.

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