Labour History Review


 

Since 1960 Labour History Review has explored the working lives and politics of ‘ordinary’ people. It has played a key role in redefining social and political history. Labour History Review publishes up to 12 fully-refereed articles in its three issues each year. The emphasis is on British labour history, though comparative and international studies are not neglected. The journal welcomes contributions which dig deeper within the traditional subject matter of labour history, but we are also keen to expand the parameters of the subject and the range of approaches taken to it. We are particularly interested in articles which engage with issues of gender and ethnicity or race, as well as class.

 

Labour History Review also features book reviews (essays and short notices) and a new section which reviews museums, heritage ‘experiences’ and exhibitions from the standpoint of the labour historian. There is also an annual bibliography giving an overview of the year’s publications in labour history, the year’s labour history theses and dissertations and a comprehensive listing of relevant archival accessions.

 

In subscribing to the journal, you automatically become a member of the Society for the Study of Labour History, a charity which promotes its subject by such means as conferences and campaigns on major issues as well as running Labour History Review.

 

* ‘Her heart and soul were with the labour movement’: using a local study to highlight the work of women organisers employed by the Workers’ Union in Britain from the First World War to 1931, Cathy Hunt

* ‘Unregulated and Suicidal Competition’: Irish Rural Industrial Labour and Scottish Anti-Sweating Campaigns in the Early-Twentieth Century, Kevin James

* Forgotten Pioneers of the National Protest March: The National League of the Blind’s Marches to London, 1920 & 1936, Matthias Reiss

* Unemployed workers, enforced leisure and education for the right use of leisure in Britain in the 1930s, Andrzej Olechnowicz

* A hazardous bargain: occupational risk in Cornish mining, 1875–1914, Catherine Mills

* Building the party: Labour party activism in five British counties between the wars, Matthew Worley

 

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

 

Labour History Review welcomes contributions in any area of labour history. The editors are particularly interested in articles which engage with issues of gender and ethnicity or race, as well as class, and which attempt to broaden the traditional subject matter of labour history. Informal approaches on proposed articles are welcomed. Completed articles should be sent to:

 

June Hannam

Faculty of Humanities

St Mathias Campus

University of the West of England

 

Contributors are also encouraged to read the following notes.

 

ONLINE PUBLICATION

 

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editorS

 

June Hannam, University of the West of England, UK

Krista Cowman, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

 

EDITORIAL advisory board

 

John Benson University of Wolverhampton, UK
Stefan Berger University of Manchester, UK
Alan Campbell University of Liverpool, UK
Richard Croucher Middlesex University, UK
Dick Geary University of Nottingham, UK
Eleanor Gordon University of Glasgow, UK
Deian Hopkin University of London South Bank, UK
Karen Hunt Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Nev Kirk Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Arthur McIvor University of Strathclyde, UK
Hugh McLeod University of Birmingham, UK
Sheila Rowbotham University of Manchester, UK
Duncan Tanner University of Wales, Bangor, UK
Pat Thane University of London, Institute of Historical Research, UK
Chris Williams University of Wales, Swansea, UK
Eileen Yeo University of Strathclyde, UK


international advisory board

 

Marcus Bürgi, Zurich, Switzerland

Elizabeth Faue, Wayne State University, USA

Terry Irving, University of Sydney, Australia

Janos Jemnitz, Budapest, Hungary

Marcel van der Linden, Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Stuart Macintyre, University of Melbourne, Australia

Inge Marssolek, Bremen, Germany

Takao Matsumura, Tokyo, Japan

Andrea Pannaccione, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, Milan, Italy

Richard Price, University of Maryland, USA

Franco Ramella, University of Turin, Italy

Klaus Tenfelde, Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

Felixs Tych, Jewish Institute of Poland, Warsaw, Poland

 


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