Making History: Organizations of Labour Historians in Britain since 1960

A special 50th anniversary supplementary issue of Labour History Review

"...an excellent and admirably scholarly piece of work...a genuine contribution to twentieth-century historiography". Lord Asa Briggs

This volume is a collection four essays which trace the development of labour history societies in Britain, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

CONTENTS
Introduction: Fifty Years On
John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, John Halstead and David Martin

1. The Society for the Study of Labour History, 1956-1985: Its Origins and Its Heyday
John McIlroy

2. The Scottish Labour History Society: A Retrospect
Robert Duncan

3. Llafur: Labour History Society and People's Remembrancer, 1970-2009

Deian Hopkin

4. The Irish Labour History Society: An Outline History
Emmet O'Connor

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