The Festival of Labour, 1962
The archives at the People’s History Museum holds 6 boxes of material pertaining to the 1962 Festival of Labour.[i] I discovered these when working in what was then the Princess Street archive and Stephen Bird asked “Do you know anything about the Festival of Labour”? I confessed not and soon 6…
Reaching Out to the Electorate: Why Labour Must Choose Owen Smith
Over the past week and a half ballot papers have begun to arrive through the letterboxes of Labour party members. Who we choose as our next leader will have far-reaching consequences for the party and the Left more broadly. To me there are voices on both sides of the leadership…
Between Education and Experience
The intellectual must work within a narrow ridge between academic hubris on the one hand; and on the other false humility, the abasement of the intellect before working-class experience, which compromises not only our own intellectual integrity, but also our own ideas. [1] So advised the historian and campaigner E. P.…
Labour’s Crisis and the End of the Two-Party System
A Party in Crisis The Labour Party is facing the greatest crisis in its history. Nine months after the historic election of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership, a disastrously botched coup attempt saw 75% of the Parliamentary Labour Party united in a failed attempt to dislodge him, by passing a…
Where? Five Views on Labour’s Future – Fabian Tract, No. 320 (November, 1959)
Where? Labour's Future (1959)
What Happened in 1931: A Record – Sidney Webb, Fabian Tract No. 237 (March, 1932)
What Happened in 1931 - Webb (1932)
