So sad I didn't see this banner! Huge solidarity.

Congratulations!

Total honour to be shortlisted for the Bert Roth award.

Key to allowing Unison University of Birmingham Branch to continue their campaign and strike action is to materially support them. I have just donated to their strike fund. gofundme.com/f/uob-unison-s…

Today's a big day for abortion rights in NZ - and the news might not come through before I go to sleep. Timezones can be the worst. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

this is white supremacy / this is the crown exerting its will / this is colonisation / kia kaha to all those on the site defending the land / to the capitalists to the colonial nation state to the disease of white supremacy / Ka whawhai tonu mātou, Ake! Ake! Ake!

Announcing the 2019 winner of the Bert Roth Award for Labour History! Congrats to David Haines and Jonathan West, who have won with ‘Crew Cultures in the Tasman World’ Bridget Williams Books. Full press release here: scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1907… 📚🏆

Congrats also to our 2019 Bert Roth Award Runner Up, Caren Wilton Otago University Press for her book 'My Body My Business: New Zealand Sex Workers in an Era of Change'. More here: scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1907…

Large Ihumātao hīkoi gathering in Wellington to call on the PM and the Govt to step in.

The predecessor unions that make up today’s @FIRST_Union (NDU) stood with Ngāti Whatua at Bastion Point. They do so today with Protect Ihumātao.

One of deindustrialization’s effects is rendering remaining industrial workers and their struggles invisible or anachronistic. That’s encapsulated in a metropolitan journalist sneering at the campaign to save a 163 year old railway works, a source of secure jobs in Glasgow.

A lovely question from one of the history students at Papatoetoe High School this morning: "We're all historians here. What tips or advice would you give us younger ones?'

The shipyard protesters and Irish language campaigners are now standing together. Shipyard workers even chanting in Irish now.. #scenes today at Stormont, busiest it’s been in a long, long time...

Feeling pretty emotional watching MPs vote for the Abortion Bill. It's been such a long fight.

I hope you have internet access Professor Keith Gildart

How have local shops supported strikes? What does that tell us about retail and community? Our latest blogpost is a report on the CHORD conference earlier this year. wlv.ac.uk/about-us/news-…

Earlier this year we had a workshop with Japanese scholars of mining that started in Sheffield University and finished at the Durham Miners' Gala. medium.com/@ncb1947/durha…

Our latest blogpost is about an exhibition of Sakubei Yamamoto's mining art, currently touring the UK. What enables miners to create art? medium.com/@ncb1947/paint…

Our Black History Month blogpost features Dr Norma Gregory Gary Younge and some research from our project. medium.com/@ncb1947/black…