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Terry Dunne
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New documentary short ‘Land and Revolution’ out now - https://youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts?si=Dhn-BXZTHQHbF51v
New edited volume ‘Spirit of Revolution’ - https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution
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Terry Dunne @peelersandsheep.bsky.social · Oct 15
New documentary film out now, 'Land and Revolution', supported by the Royal Irish Academy under the Decade of Centenaries programme and released as part of
Clare Libraries History Week, to view it go to - youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts
Me looking over a gate into a grassy laneway enclosed by hedges.
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Call for papers #CFP

Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present

18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition

Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present When and where: University of Warwick, Coventry, on Thursday 18 June 2026. Conference summary: This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry. Held jointly by the University of Warwick's Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, and Modern Records Centre, the event will run alongside an exhibition which will explore some of the themes covered by the speakers through the National Union of Mineworkers' archives. We welcome contributions from new and established researchers, working inside and outside higher education. Confirmed participants include: - Jörg Arnold (University of Augsburg / Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin), author of The British Miner in the Age of DeIndustrialization - Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Principal Investigator on research project On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 and former miner - Quentin Outram (University of Leeds), Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History and co-editor of Coal in Victorian Britain Conference themes: Subjects that could be addressed include but are not limited to: The human cost of coal, including: - Mining disasters, their contemporary impacts and later memorialisation. - Industrial accidents, industrial diseases and workers’ compensation. - Mine safety and the improvement of conditions. - Mining and mental health. Industrial health and welfare, including: - Pre-nationalisation provision in and beyond the colliery. - National Coal Board provision, including the NCB Medical Service, housing and the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation. - Trade union campaigns and benefit schemes. - Sport and social provision as mining welfare. Coal and community, including: - Environmental impact. - Mining families and the intergenerational effects of the mining industry. - Impacts of the industry with particular reference to gender, race and ethnicity. - Coalfield communities after coal: the effects of deindustrialisation. Submission guidelines We wish to make space for dialogue between academic and community-based researchers, and welcome involvement from mining heritage and local history groups / researchers from former coalfield communities. We welcome and encourage alternative presentational styles. Possible formats for contributions could include: - 15-20 minute papers. - 5 minute lightning papers (for example showcasing a particular object or archival source, or highlighting a particular place, event, individual or experience). - Round table discussions. - Posters or displays. Submission deadline: 25 January 2026. Limited funding for travel support will be available, with priority given to early career researchers or participants who cannot draw upon institutional funding. For additional enquiries, please contact the conference organisers at archives@warwick.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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drolibetts.bsky.social
Does anyone have any recent reading recommendations on how people (particularly working-class people) adjusted to technological change in the long c19th?

By reading list feels a little dated...

Thanks!
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Research assistant
A lovely tabby cat called Susan with white feet and kind eyes, sitting on top of a pile of notes on a table. In the background are various coffee mugs, a pile of books and a computer. It’s cool Susan I wasn’t even using those notes anyway
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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dskamper.bsky.social
The main thing I want to hit on is the entirely incorrect linkage between the 1924 Immigration Act and the labor upsurge of the 1930s.

This is a story a LOT of people like to tell, and not just on the Right, sadly. But it's not true. Let me explain a bit.

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dskamper.bsky.social Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 27d
I'm going to have a lot more to say about this total bullshit claim by JD Vance, but just for now:

The state with the highest union density in the US is Hawaii, where multiracial unionism is a deep and abiding tradition.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27d
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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amiesphilip.bsky.social
Inquiry on the state of rural labourers, Dr. Hunter

railway villages byproduct of the amount of land the railway purchased but did not need, inhabited by rural labourers, a system of open and closed villages existed, landowners limiting housing, reducing poor rate costs, poaching in closed villages
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Radical British filmmaker Peter Watkins was briefly tipped by the BBC before The War Game made him a controversial pariah. But he persisted — and now, at 90, he is a hero of liberated, formally remarkable socialist art.

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
Crying for Freedom: Peter Watkins at 90
Radical British filmmaker Peter Watkins was briefly tipped by the BBC before The War Game made him a controversial pariah. But he persisted — and now, at 90, he is a hero of liberated, formally remark...
tribunemag.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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erikloomis.bsky.social
This Day in Labor History: October 26, 1825. The Erie Canal opened, eight years after construction commenced. This engineering marvel would have enormous impacts on the future of American work, including spurring ever-greater industrialization. It also killed over 1,000 workers building it!
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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labourstart.bsky.social
26-10-1825 USA: After 8 years and over 1,000 dead, mostly Irish migrants, the Erie Canal is open, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
October 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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markcrail.bsky.social
The Chartist Co-operative Land Society was formed #OnThisDay 19 May 1845. It attracted huge support but was never successful in its aim to settle large numbers of workers on self-sufficient smallholdings
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/chartist-lan...
Chartist land plan 1845 - 1850 - chartist ancestors
This page introduces the Chartist Land Plan, which aimed to resettle industrial workers on smallholdings
www.chartistancestors.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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rachelschine.bsky.social
Wild. I knew a lot of this and still…

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Venus in Chains: Visualizing the Enslaved Cosmos in Medieval Islamic Astrology - Ajam Media Collective
Why were planets represented as enslaved people in Islamic art? Ava Hess analyses images of the planet Venus in chains to explore how and why the labor of the unfree was connected to astrological mean...
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February 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Open Access to the articles by Michael Burawoy (1947 - 2025) published in Current Sociology. Join us in commemorating Michael's legacy:

▪️ Facing an unequal world journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (2014)
February 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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aaocarroll.bsky.social
Like many, I’m shocked and saddened to hear of the untimely death of Michael Burawoy. My well thumbed copy of Manufacturing Consent is still on my bookshelf, much referred to when writing my own book on working time in software. Condolences to his family and friends.
February 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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sslh.bsky.social
Great speakers and themes at this one-day symposium on ‘the history and legacy of the miners’ strike of 1984/5’. Attendance is free, but please register.
sslh.org.uk/2025/01/31/s...
January 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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pocketwildingie.bsky.social
Great piece of #NatureWritting
January 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Oxfam International's 20 January 2025 'Takers Not Makers' report is attracting an 'interesting' range of headlines across media and the press. The report itself can be accessed here: www.oxfam.org/en/research/...
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Jan 21
NEW: The British Empire stole $64.82 trillion from India, a new report has found.

Read more on this here: www.thenational.scot/news/2487384...
January 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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sslh.bsky.social
Online seminar: Labour & Empire Working Group of the European Labour History Network. Dr Frederick Cooper on “Decolonization, and Labour” plus 45-minute discussion. Wednesday 15 January, 4pm GMT. Register online www.eventbrite.com/e/labour-emp...
Labour & Empire keynote: Frederick Cooper
"Colonization, Decolonization, and Labor"
www.eventbrite.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
"To speed the plough... raise the wages"

A 'Land Worker' front cover to mark #PloughMonday

Find out more about working conditions of agricultural workers through online editions of the National Union of Agricultural Workers journal, 1919-1950, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Front cover of 'The Land Worker', February 1934. It includes an illustration of a tractor pulling a plough up a furrowed field. Coins are are on the tractor and plough instead of wheels. The image is captioned 'To speed the plough - raise the wages'.
January 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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troublesinfrance.bsky.social
A particularly colourful example from 1981 - "Luis Against the Queen of England", in which a Brazilian revolutionary teams up with the IRA, a retired British officer and Colonel Gadaffi to kidnap the Queen from her yacht and demand the reunification of Ireland.
January 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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January 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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harveyjkaye.bsky.social
249 years ago today — January 10, 1776 —#ThomasPaine’s published #CommonSense, which turned America’s colonial rebellion into a revolution for independence and the making of a democratic republic! (Next year the 250th… 🇺🇸)
January 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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gastrohistory.bsky.social
I have found aurochs fascinating ever since I studied about them in undergrad archaeology courses. The last auroch died in Poland in 1627. I am following the 'de-extinction' Taurus breeding program in Europe with great interest. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whe... #foodhistory #domestication
The Story of the Aurochs Is More Complicated Than We Thought
New research helps us understand how cattle spread across the world.
www.atlasobscura.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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sslh.bsky.social
Continuing our series of #ClassEncounters with figures from #LabourHistory @vjctorianist.bsky.social meets the Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor
sslh.org.uk/2024/12/17/c...
Class Encounters: Feargus O’Connor, Chartist leader
In the sixth of our series on meetings with figures from labour history, Vic Clarke encounters the Chartist leader, MP and newspaper proprietor Feargus O’Connor. Feargus O’Connor, from the&nb…
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December 17, 2024 at 7:22 AM
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In case anyone's interested, one of the things I'll be working on over the next few months is a short, slightly strange little book about this guy, a Black man posing as a South Asian man elected to the Derry Town Council in 1876: www.dib.ie/biography/de...
December 13, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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sslh.bsky.social
In the first of our series of #ClassEncounters with figures from #LabourHistory, Joe Stanley meets John Auty, paymaster general of the Friendly Society of Coal Miners sslh.org.uk/2024/12/12/c...
December 12, 2024 at 7:49 AM
peelersandsheep.bsky.social
This morning’s reading, just got to the 1920 Iraqi revolt. The 1741 famine, subject of the other book, is fascinating in that it has such a small presence in social memory compared to that of the 1840s.
Covers of the books Arctic Ireland, about the Famine of 1741, and A Line in the Sand, about Anglo-French inter-imperialist competition in the Middle East.
December 12, 2024 at 7:40 AM