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“The revolution will be stencilled! Mimeography and Small Press” workshop today UCL Special Collections fascinating demonstration on #Gestetner. Always wanted to know how they worked when doing #antiapartheid classes & #FederationofWorkerWritersandCommunityPublishers.

"The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" 115 years old and still in publication! How better to mark #WorldBookDay than to read Tressell's manuscript -available on our website tinyurl.com/2duf4hrz (original in our library)

Thanks to King's English students visiting today to see our #GeneralStrike1926 archive in our brand new reading room at Holloway Road campus bit.ly/41rWd3o

Thanks to the hard work of my London Metropolitan University Special Collections colleagues we’ve just digitised Walter Milne-Bailey’s (head of @the_TUC Research Dept) unpublished record of #GeneralStrike1926 it's aims and implications bit.ly/4icYvdW

Preparing for a class with UsdawUnion Black Leadership programme tomorrow, searching for #ColouredSeamensUnion found this wonderful RMT resource written by S.I. Martin who I worked with when I was at Anti-Slavery International rmt.org.uk/news/publicati…

It was lovely to meet the UsdawUnion Black Leadership Programme yesterday. During the visit we discussed race, class, trade unions & the threat of the far-right. Also incl. our Black Trade Union Oral History Project (Wilf & Chi) #BreakingDownBarriers

Interview with Sanjiv Vedi #BlackTradeUnionOralHistoryProject chaired BAME Network for Welsh civil service, involved in #ShowRacismtheRedCard & describes the importance of the #BlackWorkersMovement to establishing the enquiry into Stephen Lawrence’s murder bit.ly/41ORHfu

We’ve been digitising content from our #GertrudeTuckwell Archive which you can see online on the fight for #EqualPay and trade union recognition for women workers. Women’s Trade Union League & National Federation of Women Workers bit.ly/43sEBH8 #WomensHistoryMonth

Very excited to publish interviews by Paul Griffin from Geog & Env Sciences about Unemployed Workers' Centres that were set up across the UK in response to political & economic policies in the 1980s. Testimony that links ideas of community, support and resistance tinyurl.com/2hey92ey

Thanks to participants in Unemployed Workers' Centres project - Bill (Ashington Community Initiative Centre), Colin (Derbyshire), Eileen (Women's groups in Merseyside), Jol (Sheffield), Kevin (National), Liz (Merseyside), Sandra (Sheffield) and Terry (Tyne & Wear)

We are delighted to be a part of the #GeneralStrike 100 anniversary national partnership with other museums, libraries, archives and groups. Find out how you can support this partnership here: bit.ly/GeneralStrike1… #GeneralStrike100

Very excited to report we’ve published our interview with campaigning legends Jackie Lewis and Carola Towle bit.ly/4lGz7iB They talk about their part in establishing LGBTQ+ streams in the labour movement, with over 70 years of activism between them.

'Taken as Red, Highs and Lows of the Labour Party, 1924-2019' Richard Temple’s fascinating book has now been published as a paperback. Includes many dramatic episodes cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-…

A shocking attack on democracy!

We're recruiting a new TUC Librarian. A great opportunity to work with a very exciting collection and a great team in London Metropolitan University Special Collections iaetme.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Great to see Trades Union Congress Gen Sec Paul Nowak and Paul Clarkson visiting TUC Library today. We looked at highlights in the collections, including much on unionhistory.info and exhibitions bit.ly/3HdItTv

We’ve digitised some of our #antiapartheid pamphlets we’ve used regularly in London Met School of Art, Architecture and Design classes for a gallery collections.londonmet.ac.uk/galleries/anti… , incl the very rare “I accuse!” Speeches to court by #NelsonMandela at the #RivoniaTrial