Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
Ewan Gibbs
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Surprised the Makerfield byelection hasn't (yet anyway) provoked a series of commentators revisiting Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier to contrast class, regional and political polarisation nearly a century on. Maybe it's as simple as the constituency not having Wigan in the title?
Hame
Next Wednesday I’m presenting a People’s History of Scottish Energy for the Scottish Energy Forum in Edinburgh. My lecture uses the memories of workers and communities in coal, oil, nuclear and renewables to understand how Scotland’s resource richness has led to economic precarity. Sign up ⬇️
Brilliant from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
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The first electric train from Glasgow to London, May 1974.
You know one thing that really annoys members of the public? Parties using democratic means to determine who their leaders should be.
This is complete nonsense. The only people moaning about this are pundits.
I know any TU historians reading this might laugh but all the pictures of apprentice dinners, company social events, away weekends, & family competitions makes you think how sad it is that when people talk about losing working class British culture, they should mean that, not being white & born here
You’d think by my 36th Scottish summer I’d be long over daily disappointment with the cold and the rain. Yet here we are.
Good to hear @theskotia.bsky.social asking critical questions about Scotland’s data centre boom. American capital is eyeing up Scotland’s energy resources but not promising much in return when it comes to local benefits or jobs in areas suffering redundancies onshore and offshore.
Monday run 🏃♂️
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John Merrick
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Kerry L
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Phil Burton-Cartledge
Any reccomendations for somewhere to donate a few boxes of trade union memoribillia from the 70s 80s and 90s? Mostly local and badges/ pamphlets but kindly 'donated' to me by a family member. Some of it is cool stuff but I know, archive friends, not everything shojld be kept
Kerry L
The feeling of outrage is quite right because of the closed, privatised, undemocratic and elitist method of selection, by party members. These changes would be less contentious among the general public (as they were when Callaghan and Major came in) if MPs alone made them happen.
Carl Gardner
"It is one of the accepted hypocrisies of modern British politics that when your side changes PM midterm, it is part of our distinguished constitutional heritage as a parliamentary democracy. When the other lot do it, it is an outrage." @philipjcowley.bsky.social
