Website Links
- www.tuc.org.uk
Trade Union Congress website ‘The Union Makes Us Strong.’ Launched in 2004.
Useful , thorough and stimulating information on workers’ history, and how and why trade unions came about. There is a timeline and many photographs. They also have a focus on various union happenings, such as the General Strike, the TUC annual meetings, The Matchstick workers, and the Ragged Trouser Philanthropist. - www.luddites200blog.org.uk
www.luddites200.org.uk
An active group of people, with meetings all over England, discussing and rediscovering the Luddites, generally raising awareness of what the Luddites were really about. - www.past-tense.org.uk
South London peoples’ history website, including information on enclosures, the General Strike 1926, the Chartists, and many more local histories. - www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
- www.bishopsgate.org.uk
Bishopsgate Institute and Library, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
0207 392 9270
libary@bishopsgate.org.uk
Collections relating to London, labour history, freethought, humanism, co-operation, protest and more.
*Reserachers’ service in the library.
*Reading rooms, for private study. Bring your own books or use our reference section. Newspapers and periodicals.
*Online catalogue , search the Library Catalogue online at www.bishopsgate.org.uk/catalogue. - phm.org.uk - People's History Museum in Manchester.
Displays, Events, Workshops, Outreach work from this great museum. Entry Free. - derbypeople@yahoo.co.uk - Lively group of campaigners and historians from Derby, who organise frequet public meetins about local peoples history.
- reclaimsthefields.org.uk - Website about action on reclaiming the fields for common food production, and there is information on peasants' historical struggles.
- Bristol radical history group www.brh.org.uk email brh@brh.org.uk
- York : yorkalternativehistory.wordpress.com email : yorkalternativehistory@gmail.com
- freethoughthistory.wordpress.com
email : deborahberns@yahoo.co.uk - Working Class Movement Library, Salford, Manchester
Books and authors
- Michael Wood – The Story of England
- ‘The Way We Lived Then’ Edward Armitage
Robson books - E P Thompson : ‘The Making of the English Working Class ‘
- Historian : A. J. P. Taylor
- Historian : Eric Hobsbawn : ‘The Age of Capital’ ‘The Age of Extremes’