... passing of the 1825 Combination Act, an important moment in trade union history.
My photo shows Sophie & Scarlett's version (top right) alongside two earlier editions of the book, and what I think is *the* manuscript.
I can strongly recommend the beautiful graphic novel version.
2/2

That's the one! My copy is pretty clean too. I fear it's a copy a comrade lent me but it took me so long to read that I never returned it. I console myself with the thought that maybe it was really meant as a gift. 🥴

This Slavery, the graphic novel adaptation by @rickardsisters.com It's terrific!
rickardsisters.com/news-post/th...

There's romance in 'This Slavery' by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. She'd had several books published before, including popular romances; but her publisher refused to publish 'This Slavery' and it was only published in 1925, some years after it was written.
In 2025 the @rickardsisters.com have created a

Wow! This is hard-hitting. A real "Marxist-Feminist thunderclap" as the creators of the graphic novel adaptation put it.

'This Slavery' by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth was first published in 1925. The @rickardsisters.com version is just out, published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social

Read it & #JoinAUnion

Delighted to be reading today the *brand new* graphic novel adaptation by @rickardsisters.com It's a worthy successor to their previous brilliant books: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and No Surrender. All published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social

It's arrived in the south!

My copy of this cool little book arrived today. Thanks @radicalposters.bsky.social!

"The Silk Mill Festival marks the year-long strike of Derby and Derwent Valley silk mill workers from 1833/34, against ruthless bosses who routinely ripped off their already low-paid workers through pay cuts and denied them trade union rights..."
It's on 7 June.
www.tuc.org.uk/events/2025-...

Looking good in my kitchen - temporarily at least, as I bought them to give as gifts. Thank you, Sophie and Scarlett!

This arrived yesterday. I bought it to give to a niece but I'm enjoying reading it first. Another great book published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social
www.hive.co.uk/Product/Jost...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and it seems I was #2,074,962!
Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs.

@LouiseRawAuthor on the old site:

I thought @dmitryopines.bsky.social might appreciate me pointing out here that according to a post in the old place he has a book coming out soon: Why Politicians Lie About Trade.