Luddites – Peterloo – Chartists – Suffragettes
We are delighted to be supporting the new Polyp graphic history project. An intense verbatim story of the shockingly violent fight for the vote.
Crowdfunder now live!
MAKE IT HAPPEN & GET YOUR COPY!
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“In Conversation” with Nick Pollard this lunchtime (register ldnmet.ac/6voi50R8xBU ) Here he is handing over the archive of the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers to me in August 2014. We’ll discuss his expectations for the collection in a University archive

Do you know we have a #Xylarium ?

Inherited from our predecessor the London College of Furniture, this library of over 600 species of timber from across the world is used for teaching and scientific/environmental #Research - ldnmet.ac/25Bm50RhPv7

London Met Uni #EYANature

Researching our archives for tomorrow’s “In Conversation” with Nick Pollard (register ldnmet.ac/6voi50R8xBU ) I came across these #Fanzines #Zines & was excited to see they were published in Sheffield with help from Workers’ Educational Association, we have their archive too

Don’t forget I’m “In Conversation” with Nick Pollard on Wednesday. Please remember to register ldnmet.ac/6voi50R8xBU I’ll be talking to Nick about his #creativewriting & work with Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers

My kids spend hours watching youtubers 'unbox' things. Here's me 'unboxing' a collection of RH Tawney's correspondence regarding the Rochdale tutorial. (waits for it to go viral amongst the kids...)

Some of the first WEA Tutorial essays that were written by students from Rochdale and Longton.
Topics included:
- The Organisation of the Pottery industry – the end of small unions
- What are the main causes of unemployment in the cotton industry?

Have spent today looking through TUC Library WEA archives investigating the first Tutorials in Rochdale and Longton. Some absolutely fascinating stuff. Here's the Oxford Uni memorandum of arrangements for the Rochdale class tutored by RH Tawney

Donal Fallon The original manuscript of the book (1700 handwritten pages!) is held at London Metropolitan University Special Collections, home of the TUC Library and Archive of the Irish in Britain. Story behind it here: collections.londonmet.ac.uk/records/TUC/RT…

25 years of the UK minimum wage.

We’re proud of the work our members and union did to help win a statutory minimum wage for working people, significantly reducing low pay and curbing exploitative employers.

In the spirit of those who struggled to make it a reality, we continue

📣 Join us online for 'In Conversation with Nick Pollard' Sheffield Hallam University later this month as we discuss the origins, authors and writing groups involved in the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers (1976-2007) - ldnmet.ac/6voi50R8xBU

@londonmetuni TUC Library

The Working Women's Charter was launched by the #London Trades Council in March 1974, but was given force by local charter campaign groups established around the country - unionhistory.info/britainatwork/…

#Badges #Activism #WomensHistoryMonth TUC Library

#TUCYWC24 have just passed a motion calling for a National Living Wage for young workers.

All workers deserve to be paid the same for the same work

Running a stall at the TUC Young Workers
conference today. Spoken to Nora-Marie Iversen (in picture) from Norwegian union Fagforbundet about the importance of history. He is speaking later this morning Trades Union Congress #TUCYWC24 London Metropolitan University Special Collections
London Met Uni

I've imported our 'Young Workers and Unions - Agents of Change' exhibition into Sway in time for the TUC Young Workers conference this weekend. We'll be running a stall there. See you on Saturday Trades Union Congress #TUCYWC24
London Metropolitan University Special Collections London Met Uni

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Our 'Solidarity and the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike' exhibition is now in Sway sway.cloud.microsoft/83XmGXBJjUb4i7… London Metropolitan University Special Collections London Met Uni Orgreave Justice Diarmaid Kelliher Miners Strike Women in the Miners' Strike 1984-5 Durham Miners' Gala Miners' Library

Intended to be the Northern Technical and Recreative Institute, the Northern Polytechnic (now London Met Uni) opened on #Holloway Road in 1896.

Its building, pictured here in 1911, can be found with other #Photographs on our catalogue - ldnmet.ac/F3ry50QWWOJ

#Archives

Gertrude Tuckwell Papers catalogue is available bit.ly/3Oxqjfr & digital gallery bit.ly/43iTs4T effectively that of the Women’s Trade Union League it is a fascinating archive of the campaign against sweated labour & to unionise women workers #WomensHistoryMonth

In 1954 #OTD a massive petition supporting equal pay was organised by the Equal Pay Coordinating Committee & presented to MPs at a demonstration on March 9. Illustration from Public Service, the NALGO journal, now UNISON - UK's largest union (Cartoon James Friell)

In 1975 @the_TUC organised an International Women's Year campaign incl a rally in London to promote equal pay and a charter for Working Women #InternationalWomensDay2024