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Continue reading →: Red Riding Festival 2025!
On Saturday 2nd August, from 12pm we will be hosting Red Riding Festival, a day of talks, music and events dedicated to shining a light on Yorkshire’s red roots at Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds. With guest speakers such as Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, Keir Milburn from ACFM…
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Continue reading →: Fishing and football: working class women’s activism in ‘60s HullBy Abbie Hastie In October 1968, a women’s football team from Hull played a match at the Boulevard, home of rugby league team Hull FC, against a team from Manchester. As well as a symbol of Hull’s role as a hub of nascent women’s football, the match raised money for…
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Continue reading →: Women Lead the Workers’ MovementThe groundbreaking women organisers in the Victorian Heavy Woollen District On the 1st of February 1875, weavers in the textile mills of Batley walked out in an organised strike action opposing a 10% cut to their wages. A few days later, they were joined by weavers in the mills of…
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Continue reading →: Immigration, Integration and ResilienceSilvana Lamb explores the History of the Roma Community in Sheffield and Yorkshire The Early Migration of the Roma to Yorkshire and Sheffield The Roma people, originally from northern India, began arriving in Europe over a millennium ago. By the 19th century, their migration had extended to the United Kingdom,…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Richard JacksonTom White uncovers the legacy of Hull’s trailblazing anti-asbestos campaigner For several years during the 1980s, Hull City Council held an annual event called Volunteerarama. Local charities and voluntary groups were invited to the City Hall, where they would set up stands with information about what they did and how…
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Continue reading →: Radical Halifax: a new exhibition of nine historical figures reveals Halifax’s hidden political historyWith its sprawling hills, romanticised moors and great feats of Georgian architecture, it could be said that Halifax’s known history – in the minds of the general public, at least – has often fallen victim to the period drama. The story of Anne Lister – ‘the first modern lesbian’, protagonist…
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Continue reading →: For Your Freedom and OursLeeds labour movement solidarity with Polish workers during the 1980s Polish Crisis By Tom Palmer ‘We have nothing to do with the hypocritical statements of Thatcher and Reagan – their attacks on workers’ rights in their own countries show where they really stand’.[2] Tucked deep in the papers of a…
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Continue reading →: What happened in Leeds must happen in London!Today, the 29th of September, Leeds Civic Trust will unveil a blue plaque to commemorate the Battle of Holbeck Moor, which took place 88 years ago this month. The plaque, which was initially suggested by Leeds Stand Up To Racism and Beeston resident Sam Kirk in January, represents the long-overdue…
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Continue reading →: Tom Maguire: the unsung story of Leeds’ pioneering trade unionistBy Kaynan Hudson The aim of socialism is ‘to put a stop to the mad competition for existence, which is the cause of poverty…’, wrote socialist and trade unionist Tom Maguire. [1] Despite living much of his life in destitution, Leeds-born Maguire radically challenged 19th-century political orthodoxy, leading the way…
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Continue reading →: Reflecting on a year of Red Riding MagazineAfter studying History and Politics for three years at uni and then deciding to move home in order to save to do some travelling, last July I found myself back home in Wakefield, working in a call centre and feeling somewhat disillusioned with post-academic life. As much as university had…
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