# Chartism #C19th Radicalism #Cooperation #TradesUnions, #WorkingClassLiterature with forays into #Cricket #Punk & #Reggae & a reviving interest in Torquay United FC #COYY
"In things essential, unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity."
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My day has been considerably brightened by reading in the @benaaronovitch.bsky.social newsletter that another ‘Rivers of London’ novel now exists, albeit in first draft form.😀
Yet another British University seeking to close its Humanities programmes - please consider signing this petition opposing the proposed closures.
Thursday May 28th Prof Mary Davis launches her new book on Donna Torr at the Working-Class Movement Library
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'Defence not Defiance': the banner of the Northwich & District Amalgamated Society of Salt Workers created in 1893 with a rare early depiction of a female worker bottom right. Now on show in the Weaver Hall Museum, Northwich.
On my way back home from a lovely day of research at the National Co-operative Archives in Manchester. The very definition of a hidden gem! #co-operation
This delightful map of Dartmoor (showing Ashburton to Buckland-in-the-Moor, featuring Ausewell Rocks) was part of an Exchequer case in 1605, for settling the bounds of Ashburton manor: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3...
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Don't miss today's online talk on South and North Rather than North and South: Ellen Wilkinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and the ‘Big Strike’ novel with @bronterre1.bsky.social to mark #GeneralStrike100. Buy now for today Wed 20 May
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The Society for the Study of Labour History stands in solidarity with those affected and emphasises the importance of protecting history and humanities departments from the threat of closure at the University of Hertfordshire, and elsewhere. Read our statement: sslh.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...
