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Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social · Oct 14
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026

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#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research
To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…
sslh.org.uk
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dukepress.bsky.social
The newest issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social (22:3) is online! Featuring essays on transnational solidarity, war, food, activism, and more! View the TOC and read the issue introduction, freely available: buff.ly/JczGGqn
Cover of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, Volume 22, Number 3, September 2025. The design features bold red, black, and beige artwork depicting a dockside scene with a cargo container being lifted by crane, industrial silhouettes, and the outline of Chile in the background. Text on the cover reads “Chile” and “Nothing for the Fascists: The Boycott Speeds Up the Victory of the Chilean People.”
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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jich.bsky.social
See the recent book review by Joe Redmayne of 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century' by Ravi Ahuja (Verso, 2024): doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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profpetercole.bsky.social
The Genoese dockworkers inserted themselves into the globe’s most contentious political issue, Palestine, using the best tool in any worker’s toolbox: stopping work. Call it a boycott, call it direct action, call it a strike. When workers stop working, bosses & governments take notice. My latest! ✊
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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mininghistory.bsky.social
On 22 November, I'll be giving an online talk as part of the Mineral Expertise series at the University of Vienna:

"Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?"

You can sign up here:

scarce.univie.ac.at/events/singl...
Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?
SCARCE Colloquium Speaker: Duncan Money (Independent scholar) University of Vienna Hybrid Event
scarce.univie.ac.at
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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balhnews.bsky.social
#ICYMI: In one of our latest blogs, @redhen90.bsky.social shares information about the national partnership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the General Strike 1926.

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/blog-making-...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

@gftu.org.uk
The logo for the centenary of the General Strike project. It includes images from the General Strike, and the logos of key project partners.
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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sslh.bsky.social
Join us for the launch of
Henry Dee’s ‘Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951’. Published with @livunipress.bsky.social.
Marx Memorial Library, 29 November
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October 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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liamliburd.bsky.social
Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.
Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain | Events at The University of Manchester
Department of History Guest Seminar
events.manchester.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
New book review published at @jich.bsky.social

@joeredmayne.bsky.social reviews Ravi Ahuja's 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century'

@versobooks.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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durhamhistory.bsky.social
Massive congratulations to our wonderful @liamliburd.bsky.social for the publication of his new article "The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s" in The Journal of British Studies. 🎉https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2025.10129
The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s - Volume 64
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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kristinhussey.bsky.social
Colleagues doing very cool things! One for the labour, maritime and mining historians among you.
October 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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joeredmayne.bsky.social
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026

More details:
@sslh.bsky.social

sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c...

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Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk

#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research
To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…
sslh.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
joeredmayne.bsky.social
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026

More details:
@sslh.bsky.social

sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c...

sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk

#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research
To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…
sslh.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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mininghistory.bsky.social
Our project to digitise the Zambia Congress of Trade Union archives has now been scanning documents for a year. Over 80,000 pages scanned so far, despite severe power shortages in Zambia!
Photo of a two-storey building with cars parked next to it. On the wall of the building is a sign reading "ZCTU HQ Solidarity House" Underneath the sign is a red banner reading "Zambia Congress of Trade Unions #Solidarityforever"
October 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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strikemap.org
🚨 Over 1,300 trade unionists have signed #StrikeMap &
CTUF's call for an Employment Rights Bill 2 — backed by 14 organisations.

Here are the top 10 unions whose members are leading the call

1) @unitetheunion.bsky.social
2) POA
3) @unison.org.uk
4) @pcsunion.bsky.social

#StrikeMap
Infographic titled "Finishing the Job: Demand an Employment Bill," showing the percentage of support from various unions. Includes logo and support levels of Unite the union (29%), PCS (4%), POA (20%), GMB (4%), UNISON (9%), CWU (2%), UCU (4%), FBU (4%), Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (4%), and SFWU (2%). The infographic features a bold, organized design with symbols representing each union.
October 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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llafur.bsky.social
Are you of African/Caribbean descent with ties to the Valleys? The Black Valleys Project would love to hear your story!

Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools.

🗓️Friday 24th October
🕰️2pm
📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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lclaberge.bsky.social
Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao caio

socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-20...
General strike for Palestine halts Italy
After the trade unions' call, workers and activists have taken to the streets to block Israeli weapons and rally against its government.
socialistworker.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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joannabourke.bsky.social
McCarthyism is here, and gender scholars and equality activists and even basic human/legal rights proponents are in its sights. I have learnt so much from Judith Butler and now this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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sidegallery.bsky.social
⛏️✨ Lessons in solidarity, straight from 1984.

Miners’ Weekend School (1984) at The Burr of Berwick. Six films by Amber Films’ Current Affairs Unit from the 1984 to 85 Miners’ Strike. Free drop-in Saturdays 12 to 4 pm until 31 Oct. 

🔗 More details: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
September 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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alexcallinicos.bsky.social
Interesting interview with Zara Sultana newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Zarah Sultana, The Alternative — Sidecar
On Britain’s new left party—3.
newleftreview.org
August 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
joeredmayne.bsky.social
We will be at the Durham Miners’ Gala again. However, this year, we will have our recorders at the ready to conduct mini interviews. If you have any family histories, stories, or memorabilia related to the General Strike of 1926 — pop by our stall! @sslh.bsky.social
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Photograph of our Remembering 1926 stall at the Durham Miners’ Gala
July 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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marcdavenant.bsky.social
Brilliant statement from the Durham Miners Association on why Reform is not welcome on the platform for the Durham Miners Gala
https://www.durhamminers.org/statement_durham_miners_gala_and_reform_uk
DMA statement - Durham Miners Gala and Reform UK
Reform UK have chosen to criticise us publicly for not inviting them to the Gala. They obviously don’t understand how this works, so we will explain...
www.durhamminers.org
June 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
A cautionary note from 'The Land Worker' in 1920... "It has yet to be proved that bees have any affection for anybody or anything that does not yield honey." #WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #BeeKind 🐝🍯

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Article on bees and bee-keeping from 'The Land Worker', January 1920.
May 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Marking May Day with a selection of labour movement leaflets from the 1890s and 1930s, from the celebration of Walter Crane's illustration to protests against economic plight and international peril

More illustrations by Walter Crane are available at mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/CAT/...
Illustration by Walter Crane captioned 'Labour's May Day. Dedicated to the workers of the world'. It shows five men holding hands around a globe captioned 'Solidarity of Labour'. An angel with a 'Freedom' halo is standing behind, with arms and wings stretched out. The names of the continents are visible in the picture, along with tools and ears of corn [UCATT archives, document reference: MSS.78/UCATT/5]. 1896 leaflet for a Labour Day demonstration at Hyde Park, London, on 1 May. It includes a statement 'To the Workers of London' from H.W. Lee and Ben Gardner [archives of William Wess, document reference: MSS.240W/3/29]. Leaflet advertising May-Day demonstrations organised by the Manchester and Salford Trades Council and Manchester and Salford Borough Labour Parties. The demonstration was arranged for 7 May 1933, rather than the first of the month [from Trades Union Congress archives; document reference: MSS.292/59/1]. Leaflet issued for May Day 1936. It includes a photograph from the Imperial War Museum of First World War soldiers blinded from a gas attack, and talks of "grave perils ... threatened by the continuance of economic disorders and political antagonisms" [from Trades Union Congress archives; document reference: MSS.292/59/1]
May 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
Please read & share this, it took me ages. This is a project I was trying (and failing) to get funding for for a year. I came close, but I wanted to write it up anyway and share some of the photos because I think it's important to get them out there.

#Photography

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I’ve been documenting the East Durham Coast (former) pit villages for a number of years.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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joannabourke.bsky.social
In 2023, I published the history of Birkbeck, formerly the London Mechanics' Institution, & my intellectual 'home' for 3 decades (gulp!). But Mechanics Institutes were all around the world. I wrote a short piece on the one in Lurgan. See the blog: www.joannabourke.com/blog. @lovinglurgan.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM