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Picket Line Research SLHS committee member Diarmaid Kelliher is working on a research project at the University of Glasgow on ‘The Picket Line in Britain, 1966-1998’, exploring the role of the picket line in industrial relations and British politics ...

Scottish Local History Forum Conference on Slavery The Scottish Local History Forum is holding a mini-online conference – Scotland’s involvement in slavery: the local view – on the evenings of Wednesday & Thursday 28/29 April, beginning at 5pm. The ...

PayPal Problems As noted in the email accompanying our February newsletter, we are experiencing problems with access to PayPal from the SLHS website. This appears to be a result of an upgrade in the PayPal security protocol and we are trying to ...

50 Years on from UCS Several initiatives have been organised for the 50th anniversary of the work-in at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) in 1971. On 28 January the Jimmy Reid Foundation is holding a celebration of the work-in, with Professor John ...

History of Protest in Aberdeen University of Aberdeen archivist (and SLHS member) Andrew MacGregor is developing a new resource, 100 Places of Protest, which he has added to the Aberdeen Protest blog at https://aberdeenprotest.wordpress.com/ Andrew ...

British Library Sound Archive Resource The British Library has over 6.5 million recordings of speech, music and other material, providing a rich resource for scholars and researchers. Amongst the collections is Sisterhood and After (The Women’s ...

Welcome to the November 2020 edition of the SLHS newsletter. Symposium on the Future of Labour History As noted in last month’s newsletter, the 2020 edition of Scottish Labour History will include a symposium on the future of Labour History, with the ...

Welcome to the October 2020 edition of the SLHS newsletter. Scottish Labour History – Volume 55: The 2020 edition of Scottish Labour History is due out in November. Among its contents will be: A symposium on the future of labour history, with ...

Welcome to the September 2020 edition of the SLHS newsletter. Desperately Seeking Early Journals: SLHS is trying to assemble a full set of SLH journals, from no.1, published in 1969, to no.54, published last year. Currently, we are missing nos.1 to 9 ...

SLHS Newsletter: Summer 2020 Welcome to the first of what it is hoped will become a regular series of Scottish Labour History Society newsletters, containing information from the Society, together with links to websites, projects and other ...