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With Best Wishes for 2023 All members should now have received their copy of Volume 57 of Scottish Labour History, together with a free copy of Sell and Be Damned, the reprint of the account of the 1951 Merrylee building workers’ strike to prevent ...

Journal and Publication Update Volume 57 of Scottish Labour History is printed and will be mailed out shortly. SLHS subscribers will also receive our new Occasional Publication. Sell and Be Damned reprints the story of the 1951 Merrylee building ...

The 2022 Edition of Scottish Labour History Volume 57 of Scottish Labour History will be out in late November and includes a transcript of the inaugural Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture given by Professor Lynn Abrams of Glasgow University, on the ...

100 Years of the TGWU Unite the Union is organising an event at the Moving Image Archive, Kelvinhall, Glasgow, as part of the Unite History Project. This will take place on Wednesday 12 October, from 4.30pm to 8pm, and will comprise a series of ...

The SLHS Ian MacDougall Essay Prize The Scottish Labour History Society is pleased to announce the establishment of the Ian MacDougall Essay Prize, which will: * honour the memory of Dr Ian MacDougall (1933-2020), founding secretary of the Scottish ...

The 2022 SLHS Conference/AGM and Lecture – preliminary information The June SLHS committee meeting agreed in principle to a combined conference and AGM in November, pending no further destabilising Covid variants. It will likely be a partly in-person ...

Ian MacDougall Essay Prize Fund A splendid response to the Ian MacDougall Essay Prize Fund, launched at the inaugural Memorial Lecture in April, has now reached £4,000, enough to fund the prize and its promotion for several years to come. The annual ...

SLHS Occasional Publications We hope all SLHS members have received and enjoyed their exclusive advance copy of Diverse Voices, Challenging Injustice: Banner Tales from Glasgow, issued with Scottish Labour History Volume 56. A public launch is now ...

The Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture On Thursday 7 April, family, friends and colleagues of the late Ian MacDougall (Scottish Labour History Society Secretary, 1961-1996) gathered at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh for the inauguration ...

Scottish Labour History Society Essay Prize Having recently received several donations to support the Society’s activities, SLHS is planning to launch an annual essay competition for undergraduates in the near future, with a prize of £250, and the ...