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Red Clydeside

An illustrated talk by Johnnie William Gallacher

This is a recording of a talk given by Johnnie William Gallacher at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Association of Celtic Students of Ireland and Britain in 2019, and featuring material about

Scotland and the Russian Revolution

SLHS Annual Conference 2017

The 2017 conference, held in the “penthouse” conference suite at the Glasgow offices of Unite, formed the Scottish Labour History Society’s contribution to the centenary commemorations of the

Images of Scottish labour

Banners, prints and photographs of Scottish working-class struggle over two centuries –  strikes, marches, demonstrations, campaigns and conferences – all from the SCRAN Collection of Historic

The Art of Scottish labour

Writing in the late 1950s, Raymond Williams (then an adult education tutor) suggested that the culture of the working class since the Industrial Revolution had been 'primarily social' rather than