We are pleased to announce that Labour History Review is celebrating the publication of its 90th edition. Labour History Review is published in partnership with the Society for the Study of Labour History, alongside the book series Studies in Labour History, edited by Professor Neville Kirk. Since 1960 the journal has explored the working lives and politics of ‘ordinary’ people and has played a key role in redefining social and political history.
To mark the occasion we are sharing a selection of articles from the journal which are free to read for a month.
The Editors of the journal, Paul Corthorn (Queen’s University Belfast) and Peter Gurney (University of Essex) are delighted to offer the following introduction to the selected articles:
We have great pleasure in celebrating the publication of the 90th edition of Labour History Review by making freely available the following articles. We have chosen them from the last decade or so – the period of our editorship – and it was a hard choice to make from a wealth of high-quality articles.
Read the following articles for free throughout May
Donald MacRaild, ‘”No Irish Need Apply”: The Origins and Persistence of a Prejudice’ 78/3 (2013), 269-99
Jonathan Hyslop, ‘The Strange Death of Liberal England and the Strange Birth of Illiberal South Africa: British Trade Unionists, Indian Labourers and Afrikaner Rebels, 1910-1914’, 79/1 (2014), 97-120
Jamie Bronstein, ‘Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, the ‘Member for All England’: Representing the Non-voter in the Chartist Decade’, 80/2 (2015), 109-34
Tom Buchanan, ‘Ideology, Idealism, and Adventure: Narratives of the British Volunteers in the International Brigades’, 81/2 (2016), 123-40
David Selway, ‘Death Underground: Mining Accidents and Memory in South Wales, 1913–74’, 81/3 (2016), 187-209
Emmanuelle Morne, ‘Glorious Auxiliaries’? Gender, Participation, and Subordination in the Chartist Movement (1838–1851)’, 85/1 (2020), 7/32
Matt Beebee, ‘2019 Labour History Review Essay Prize Winner: Navigating Deindustrialization in 1970s Britain: The Closure of Bilston Steel Works and the Politics of Work, Place, and Belonging’, 85/3 (2020), 253-83.
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