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:
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/the-...
🚨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...
I'm delighted to be included in this, thanks @richmondbridge.bsky.social!
looking forward to this tomorrow - book below if you fancy it
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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Diarmaid Kelliher
Diarmaid Kelliher
Diarmaid Kelliher
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
The English Historical Review
The English Historical Review
The English Historical Review
📢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!