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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 and Novara, Leeds Marxists and…
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Fishing and football: working class women’s activism in ‘60s Hull
By 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 the Hull Trawler Women’s Association,…
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Women Lead the Workers’ Movement
The 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 Dewsbury. This strike is thought…
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Immigration, Integration and Resilience
Silvana 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, and the city of Sheffield…
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Remembering Richard Jackson
Tom 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 to get involved. At one…
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