Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs.bsky.social
Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
Running by the bare trees. 🏃♂️
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Running by the bare trees. 🏃♂️
Sending off proofs for an essay about how oil transformed work and community in Northern Scotland through rig manufacturing in the Cromarty Firth and the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland. It uses oral histories with workers and members of their families and archival research.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sending off proofs for an essay about how oil transformed work and community in Northern Scotland through rig manufacturing in the Cromarty Firth and the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland. It uses oral histories with workers and members of their families and archival research.
The Gorbals looking pretty in the winter sky.
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Gorbals looking pretty in the winter sky.
Some of the illustrations are fantastic. There are a few of prominent individuals but they are predominantly depictions of a vibrant movement.
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Some of the illustrations are fantastic. There are a few of prominent individuals but they are predominantly depictions of a vibrant movement.
When my colleague Jim Tomlinson retired he kindly gave me this book the TUC published to celebrate its centenary.
It’s a very interesting product of its time - a confident account of organised labour’s forward march towards a more democratic more egalitarian society.
It’s a very interesting product of its time - a confident account of organised labour’s forward march towards a more democratic more egalitarian society.
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When my colleague Jim Tomlinson retired he kindly gave me this book the TUC published to celebrate its centenary.
It’s a very interesting product of its time - a confident account of organised labour’s forward march towards a more democratic more egalitarian society.
It’s a very interesting product of its time - a confident account of organised labour’s forward march towards a more democratic more egalitarian society.
An upside down cat 🐈⬛
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
An upside down cat 🐈⬛
Enjoyed the Glasgow leg of @dominicmhinde.bsky.social’s book tour. Drifting North is a journey through the people and places which have made Scotland formative to the making of carbon capitalism but which are now facing up to building a new world shaped by climate change.
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Enjoyed the Glasgow leg of @dominicmhinde.bsky.social’s book tour. Drifting North is a journey through the people and places which have made Scotland formative to the making of carbon capitalism but which are now facing up to building a new world shaped by climate change.
Saturday morning 10k in the wind and the rain 🏃♂️
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Saturday morning 10k in the wind and the rain 🏃♂️
Analogies tend to be made between now and the 70s for understandable reasons, but I’m tempted to say the 2020s chimes with the 1920s:
An old two party system dying.
Short lived prime ministers.
Britain struggled to find a place in a volatile international order.
Economic precarity.
An old two party system dying.
Short lived prime ministers.
Britain struggled to find a place in a volatile international order.
Economic precarity.
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Analogies tend to be made between now and the 70s for understandable reasons, but I’m tempted to say the 2020s chimes with the 1920s:
An old two party system dying.
Short lived prime ministers.
Britain struggled to find a place in a volatile international order.
Economic precarity.
An old two party system dying.
Short lived prime ministers.
Britain struggled to find a place in a volatile international order.
Economic precarity.
The Scottish government's discussion of conditionalities on future funding is a hopeful sign for making this happen. It echoes Riyoko Shibe's recent Just Transition Commission report which John Swinney referred to in his speech yesterday. Report 🔽
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Scottish government's discussion of conditionalities on future funding is a hopeful sign for making this happen. It echoes Riyoko Shibe's recent Just Transition Commission report which John Swinney referred to in his speech yesterday. Report 🔽
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
With @riyokoshibe.bsky.social at the Just Transition Commission’s summit in Edinburgh.
We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.
We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
With @riyokoshibe.bsky.social at the Just Transition Commission’s summit in Edinburgh.
We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.
We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.
Enjoyed discussing how work and inequality are being remade by AI with colleagues from Economic and Social History and other subjects earlier. Thanks to the Political Economy Futures Forum for organising an interesting event.
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Enjoyed discussing how work and inequality are being remade by AI with colleagues from Economic and Social History and other subjects earlier. Thanks to the Political Economy Futures Forum for organising an interesting event.
Happy National Black Cat Day from Izzy! 🐈⬛
October 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Happy National Black Cat Day from Izzy! 🐈⬛
Aberdeen away ole ole!
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Aberdeen away ole ole!
The remains of industrial Scotland from the sky:
The Titan shipyard crane in Clydebank.
The coal bing by Croy.
The Titan shipyard crane in Clydebank.
The coal bing by Croy.
October 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The remains of industrial Scotland from the sky:
The Titan shipyard crane in Clydebank.
The coal bing by Croy.
The Titan shipyard crane in Clydebank.
The coal bing by Croy.
Really good afternoon discussing how Scottish oil and gas workers understand the crisis and job losses facing their industry in the 2020s through the yard and mine closures of the late 20th century. Thanks to colleagues from the University of Tilburg for organising the symposium.
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Really good afternoon discussing how Scottish oil and gas workers understand the crisis and job losses facing their industry in the 2020s through the yard and mine closures of the late 20th century. Thanks to colleagues from the University of Tilburg for organising the symposium.
Both oil and renewables companies receive big public funding, including INEOS, co-owners of the now closed Grangemouth refinery.
Riyoko Shibe has written an important new report for
@JTCScotland
on the conditions we should apply to our money.
Read it here 🔽
justtransition.scot/wp-content/u...
Riyoko Shibe has written an important new report for
@JTCScotland
on the conditions we should apply to our money.
Read it here 🔽
justtransition.scot/wp-content/u...
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Both oil and renewables companies receive big public funding, including INEOS, co-owners of the now closed Grangemouth refinery.
Riyoko Shibe has written an important new report for
@JTCScotland
on the conditions we should apply to our money.
Read it here 🔽
justtransition.scot/wp-content/u...
Riyoko Shibe has written an important new report for
@JTCScotland
on the conditions we should apply to our money.
Read it here 🔽
justtransition.scot/wp-content/u...
Arrived in the Netherlands to join a symposium discussing the unjust transition on both sides of the North Sea. I’ll be contributing with a paper on how historical memories of coal mine closures shapes the perspective of Scottish oil and gas workers at Grangemouth and offshore.
October 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Arrived in the Netherlands to join a symposium discussing the unjust transition on both sides of the North Sea. I’ll be contributing with a paper on how historical memories of coal mine closures shapes the perspective of Scottish oil and gas workers at Grangemouth and offshore.
Definitely getting chillier on the morning run 🏃♂️
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Definitely getting chillier on the morning run 🏃♂️
Carry yourself with the confidence of the Journal of Agrarian Change.
October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Carry yourself with the confidence of the Journal of Agrarian Change.
Monday morn run 🏃♂️
October 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Monday morn run 🏃♂️
Enjoyed Junior Hoilett scoring a life affirming double for 35 year olds everywhere as Hibs record a statement victory. Glory glory to the Hibees!
October 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Enjoyed Junior Hoilett scoring a life affirming double for 35 year olds everywhere as Hibs record a statement victory. Glory glory to the Hibees!