CONFERENCE - 'Sociability & Political Life', University of York, 3rd/4th July 2026
Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!
If you don’t get the print version, my Tribune article on the Merseyside WLM is now available to read for free online:
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I'm delighted to be included in this, thanks @richmondbridge.bsky.social!
New article in English Historical Review (@enghistrev.bsky.social) on 'Thatcherism & the Picket Line'. Looks at relationship between picketing & Conservatives esp. in 1980s, but also the legacy into the 1990s. Of relevance, I think, to upcoming Orgreave inquiry.
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New article! Diarmaid Kelliher @diarmaidkelliher.bsky.social on 'Thatcherism and the Picket Line'
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Abstract. This article explores the relationship between Thatcherism and the picket line. The picket line in late twentieth-century Britain was a space in
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Abstract. This article explores the relationship between Thatcherism and the picket line. The picket line in late twentieth-century Britain was a space in
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
How have History Workshop Journal articles been used to teach history over the past 50 years?
From the French Revolution, to policing in early modern England, to LGBTQ+ histories, these reflections highlight the HWJ archive as a valuable resource within many different classrooms.
🚨It’s publication day!🚨
My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops!
Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you!
Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...
From histories of the French Revolution, to policing in Early Modern England, to LGBTQ+ histories, these reflections highlight HWJ as a valuable resource across many different classrooms.
Women and the Miners’ Strike, 1984–1985. By Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaiteand Natalie Thomlinson;
Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike. By Diarmaid Kelliher @diarmaidkelliher.bsky.social
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social
Marking the anniversary of the Miners' Strike of 1984/5, Keith Gildart reflects on a selection of recent titles in a new Review Article: 'Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5'
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#MinersStrike
