The read on the train home . . .

Having deserted from the British Army in early 1922, Charlie Chidley was captured while fighting with anti Treaty forces later that year and interned at the Curragh

Well done to the Fórsa members who've led the way against anti-LGBTQ+ agitators targeting libraries. Their resilience & bravery was recognised in the report "Resisting Hate and Navigating Agitation", launched today. thejournal.ie/impact-of-anti…

'Bloody Sunday' occurred at Trafalgar Square #OnThisDay 1887 after a march against unemployment and coercion in Ireland was attacked by 2000 police and 400 troops. After violent clashes, around 400 protestors, including the socialist John Burns, were arrested.

World War I, in its specific form, perhaps could have been prevented. But Perry Anderson’s study of the leading accounts of the conflict shows that there was no force strong enough to  suppress the imperialist rivalries at the heart of it. jacobin.com/2024/11/world-…

Class societies didn’t begin with capitalism: the ancient and medieval worlds had their own systems of exploitation. Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what their eventual demise tells us about what might lie ahead. jacobin.com/2022/04/marxis…

Excited to be part of an online discussion with Portsmouth Trades Council about our plans for theatre production/ exhibition #WeAreTheLionsMrManager celebrating 50th anniversary of #Grunwick Strike & the remarkable Jayben Desai a date for your diary Friday 6th December 7pm - 8pm. RP

Shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Kieran “Jack”McGinley, someone I saw regularly during my days as a shelver at Trinity College Library and committee member of the Irish Labour History Society. A man of principle who founded the Umiskin Press publishing house.

Yorkshire was a stronghold of Chartism hosting numerous lodges and gatherings. Feargus O’Connor, the editor of The Northern Star, a significant Chartist newspaper, was based in Leeds. It played a vital role in disseminating Chartist ideals and organising support.

Memorial in Normossen Forest outside Kokkola, #Finland to 47 Reds executed here in 1918 during the Finnish Civil War. I'm constantly struck by the enormous scale of death in this conflict, c. 38k people, when you compare it to the comparatively few deaths in the Irish Civil War.

The DeLorean car made famous from Back To The Future was manufactured on the outskirts of Belfast. Here is a rare flag of DeLorean Nationalist Workers made during the 1981 H Block Hunger Strikes.

Israeli historian produces vast database of war crimes in Gaza pulse.ly/naxuu5wd0l

A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future' - Robert A. Heinlein Today I was one of the judges at a local school's History Fest of the module on the theme ' The past in my place' Range of subjects and standard blew us away

On Christmas Day in 1831, 60,000 enslaved Africans carried out the largest uprising in British West Indies history. Their uprising would prove a milestone on the road to emancipation only a few years later. jacobin.com/2022/12/jamaic…

#PloughMonday 🌾 GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH 🐎 📍St Bartholomew's Church • Llanover ⛪ #Wales

1907 postcard with a view of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Arch in Stephens Green Dublin. Interesting handwritten note to the rear stating “I was at the opening of the Memorial Gate on Monday”. Postmarked Rathgar Dublin August 21 1907.

Podcast on the Lockout here with TheIrishHistoryShow and Padraig Yeates irishhistoryshow.ie/8-the-1913-loc… (from 2012)

Mike Davis, “California Burning: The Apocalyptic Trinity of Climate Change, Alien Plant Invasion and Exurbanization” 'LA is burning — firestorms have wiped out Pacific Palisades and much of Altadena. More than ever we miss the sagacity of Mike Davis.' archive.kpfk.org/index.php?shok…