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The nurse who became a spy: Madge Addy's war Against fascism, by Chris Hall, published Pen & Sword History, 2021. ISBN: 9781526779588. 25.00 Chris Hall has written an excellent and lucid account of the life of an extraordinary person. One of the outstanding features of the book is the...
In July 1971, a work-in took place at the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank. Shipyard workers gathered inside the gates, refusing to cease work and abandon the shipyards, in protest at the Tory party who, despite the yards still being prosperous, had refused them financial assistance; action that would...
Two or three years ago when my book on Britain s 1914-1918 war resisters was heading towards completion, I was approached from the USA by a man called Trevor Blake. I didn t know him then and I m not sure I know much more about him now but...
The six densely packed boxes and a pile of photographs in this archive, held here at the Library, tell the story of the Tameside Care Workers' dispute: a local dispute which gained national notoriety as the story unfolded of the first privatisation of social care by a Labour Council...
Running alongside our new pop-up exhibition Literature in the Mines we are currently digitising a fascinating bound volume bringing together a range of different handbills and pamphlets which relate to the coal trade c.1818-1845, and known as the Coal Trade Papers. As we noted on the blog last week,...