Welcome to the website of the Scottish Labour History Society. We are an independent organisation, but have always enjoyed strong practical, moral and financial support from the broad trade union, labour and co-operative movement. We aim to strengthen these links, and we welcome new members and affiliates who can help us to:
- Promote labour and working class history;
- form and run regional labour history groups and workshops;
- expand our range of contacts with sympathetic organisations (museums, societies, labour movement bodies, etc); and
- expand publishing, and other appropriate activities and outputs, in the field of labour and working class history.
The Scottish Committee of the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) was formed in 1961. Five years later, in 1966, in amicable agreement with the SSLH, an autonomous Scottish Labour History Society was constituted. A detailed history of the Scottish Labour History Society can be found attached, written by the former Chair of the Society, and current editorial collective and SLHS committee member, Rob Duncan.
Upcoming Event:
The Scottish Labour History Society
celebrates its fiftieth anniversary on
Saturday 5 November 2011.
