Since May 2020, and because we could not hold live meetings, we have been producing a regular newsletter. At the end of 2022, having returned to live and blended meetings, we decided to produce the Newsletter on a regular basis.
Issues can be accessed by clicking on date of individual issue below:
| May 2020: From Chartism to Incorporation – Julian Atkinson Useful Information from The Working Class Movement Library – Alan Tuckman Rebellion and Reform in 1820 – Roger Tanner Mary Carlin (1873-1939) – Val Wood Fighting the Colour Bar in Nottingham – Roger Tanner The Founding of Glossop Labour Club – Gwyneth Francis An episode in the power battles within the NUM during the late Twentieth Century – Hilary Cave |
| July 2020: Origins and Early History of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Labour History Society (NDLHS) – Hilary Cave Kinder Trespass -Yesterday and Today – Derek Clarke Feminist Archive Midlands East FAME – Val Wood Edmund Potter, Karl Marx and the Issue of Supported Emigration During the Cotton Famine – Gwyneth Francis The Ending of Frame Rent – Julian Atkinson Lighthouse Keepers: A Small Nineteenth Century Workforce – Chris Wrigley |
| September 2020: John Blackner – A Local Hero – Phil Henshaw Opposing Immigration Laws – 1961 and 1968 – Roger Tanner The Story of the Institute for Workers’ Control (IWC) – Alan Tuckman Florence Nightingale, Derbyshire and the Home – Dr Richard Bates The first and last NUM Special Delegate Conferences of the 1983-5 Miners’ dispute – Hilary Cave Clifton and the Chartists – Julian Atkinson |
| November 2020: The History of Anti-apartheid Activism in Nottingham and Notts – Dr Kate Law and Lisa Clarkson Fighting the Colour Bar on Nottinghamshire’s Buses – Roger Tanner Chartist Electoral Strategy in Nottingham – Julian Atkinson Greetings to our friends in NDLHS from the Scottish Labour History Society! – STEWART MACLENNAN, Chair Scottish Labour History Society. ‘The Air of Freedom’ The Derbyshire Boot and Shoemakers Strike 1918- 1920 – Steve Bond Chris Richardson (obituary) |
| March 2021: Edward Carpenter and Millthorpe – Gwyneth Francis Walking Local Labour History – Roger Tanner Not Robin Hood but Robbin’ Bastard: How the Free Grammar school became Nottingham High School – Julian Atkinson The Typical Labour Stalwart? Frank Manning Dunkley and Loughborough – Mike Shuker Archiving in the time of Corona – Report from the Feminist Archive Midlands – Tina Pamplin Hidden – Helen Chester Breaking the Colour Bar at Raleigh – Roger Tanner |
| May 2021: The Early History of the Nottingham Female Cigar Makers Union – Val Wood The 1905 Derby Vaccination Crisis – Julian Atkinson The Lace-Runners’ Turn-out of 1840 – The Selston Enclosure Riots – Julian Atkinson The supporters of Richard Carlile in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire: a small addition and tribute to the memory of Christopher Richardson |
| October 2021: Thomas Smith and the Paris Commune – Roger Tanner The First Lib-Lab Candidate? – Julian Atkinson Chartism in Heanor – Paul Jones The Kane Family – Narrated by Bas Barker, Written by Lynda Straker |
| January 2022: John L Halstead Obituary (1936-2021) Chartism in the New Industrial Village of Carrington – Roger Tanner Fascism and Anti-fascism in the UK some historical examples and contemporary consequences – Mike Hamlin George Julian Harney (1817 – 1897) – Adrian Perry Raise Ye Banners – Lynda Straker Womanpower: Hauling the Lifeboat – Chris Wrigley |
| April 2022: Nurses Ejected from Wards in 1922 Strike Battle – Rosemary Collins The Roots of Discord? The 1918 Labour Party Conference at the Albert Hall in Nottingham – Alan Tuckman Nottingham: from insurrection to arbitration – Julian Atkinson Some experiences of the post-1985 coal industry in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire – Hilary Cave Reviews: In the Shadow of the Mine – Gwyneth Francis Good News for Labour Historians! – Mike Hamlin North East History (Vol 52 2021) – Mike Hamlin |
| November 2022: Review Article: Culture and Politics: Class, Writing, Socialism by Raymond Williams (edited with an introduction by Phil O’Brien – Mike Hamlin Some Personal Recollections of Chesterfield Woodcraft Folk in the 1960s – Gwyneth Francis George Powe and ‘Don’t Blame the Blacks’. – Roger Tanner W.J. Douse from Riots to Social Peace – Julian Atkinson |
| April 2023: Frame breaking before Luddism – Julian Atkinson North East History (Vol 53 2022. ISSN 14743248) – Mike Hamlin The Social Democratic Federation in Ilkeston – Phil Henshaw Workers Socialist Federation branches in the Nottingham area, 1916-1920 – Roger Tanner |
| November 2023: The Law and the Mansfield Chartists – Hugh Slaney Labour Revolt In Britain 1910-14 by Ralph Darlington (Pluto Press, 2023), A review – Mike Hamlin The Women’s Cooperative Guild 1883-1928 – Julian Atkinson A Political Life in Books: Joseph Crispin and the Derby Labour Club Library – Roger Tanner |
| March 2024 Workshop of the World: Essays in Peoples History by Raphael Samuel – Review by Mike Hamlin The Print Strike – Peter Hamshaw An episode in the history of Luddism – the attack at Castle Donnington – Phil Henshaw The Luddites in Heanor and Southern Derbyshire 1911-1816 – Paul Jones The Spencer Union – Julian Atkinson Some Events Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike |
| March 2025 Primitive Methodism and the first national union of agricultural labourers – Phil Henshaw Dawn of Labour in Nottingham Part 2 – Julian Atkinson The Workers’ Friend: The Legacy of Vale Rawlings – Elaine Pritchard The transnational lace-makers of Nottingham and Calais – Fabrice Bensimon |
| March 2026 Chartist Lecturers by Paul Jones The Rise of the Nazis – Lessons from History? By Harry Ziegler Ernie Cant by Julian Atkinson Co-operative Flour Milling in Mansfield by Hugh Slaney |
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