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Calton Weavers’ Commemoration This year’s Calton Weavers’ Commemoration has been rescheduled for Sunday, 22nd September, at 1pm. The change is the result of an anticipated large increase in traffic, busy public transport and parking restrictions ...

Calton Weavers’ Commemoration The organisers of this year’s Calton Weavers’ Commemoration have been informed that the Celtic v Rangers game, expected to have been on 31st August, has been rescheduled for Sunday, 1st September with a kick-off time of ...

W Hamish Fraser wins the Colby Prize Former Scottish Labour History editor and Strathclyde University emeritus professor of history, W Hamish Fraser, has been awarded the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals’ 2024 Robert and Vineta Colby ...

SLHS Special General Meeting in May The Society’s Special General Meeting noted the success of last year’s John Maclean conference and the videos produced from it (see below). It also made the following decisions: To aim, in future, for an annual ...

Society Special General Meeting: Monday 13th May, 6.30pm (via ‘Zoom’) A Special General Meeting of the Society on the above date will elect a new committee to run the Society – comprising chair, vice-chair, secretary, treasurer, journal editors ...

Donald Dewar Memorial Lecture This year’s Donald Dewar Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland, on Monday 29 April, from 6pm to 7.30pm, at the University of Glasgow in Room 745 of the James McCune ...

The 2024 Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture The 2024 Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture will explore the lives of Peeblesshire textile workers and the process of telling their stories. It will take place on 4 April at the National Library of Scotland ...

Calling Academic Teaching Staff! The Ian MacDougall Essay Prize deadline approaches The Ian MacDougall Essay Prize honours the memory of Dr Ian MacDougall (1933-2020), founding secretary of the Scottish Labour History Society and the Scottish Working ...

Calling Academic Teaching Staff! The Ian MacDougall Essay Prize deadline approaches The Ian MacDougall Essay Prize honours the memory of Dr Ian MacDougall (1933-2020), founding secretary of the Scottish Labour History Society and the Scottish Working ...

SLHS John Maclean Centenary Conference The Society’s John Maclean conference on 18 November proved a great success, from the opening remarks by Bailie Roza Salih of Glasgow City Council to the sounds of the John Maclean March at the close. Between ...