Directory of Working Class Resources

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Sites relating to British working class history.

Subcategories

• General Strike, 1926
• Industrial Revolution
• Jarrow Crusade
• Miners' Strike, 1984-5
• Red Clydeside
• Tolpuddle Martyrs
• Tressell, Robert - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Resources in This Category

• British History in-depth: Banners of the British Labour Movement

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/banners_01.shtml
  An illustrated article on political banners in the nineteenth and twentieth century, including their use by trade union and women's suffrage movements.

• North East Labour History

  http://nelh.net/
  A regional labour history society dedicated to the study of working people's history in the region.

• People's History Museum

  http://www.phm.org.uk/
  National centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in Britain. Information about their history, collections and galleries, archives, events, and news. [Manchester]

• Society for the Study of Labour History

  http://www.sslh.org.uk/
  Organisation dedicated to the study of labour history in the UK; information about membership, publications, events, and newsletter; also offer downloadable lists of resources.

• The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

  http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/303
  Review of the book by Jonathan Rose.

• The Union Makes Us Strong : TUC History Online

  http://www.unionhistory.info/
  Information about the TUC Library Collections, now in London Metropolitan University; includes a timeline of union history, the manuscript of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists online, and digitised pages from the first century of the Trades Union Congress.

• Working Class Movement Library

  http://www.wcml.org.uk/
  A collection of materials concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labour movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century. Information about collections, events, and access.

• Ymgyrchu! - The Communists

  http://www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Pleidleisio/lleiafrifol/Comiwnyddion/index-e.htm
  Part of the National Library of Wales' project to catalogue a century of social and political agitation in Wales, focussing on the Communist Party's activities there.

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