Labour History Group

The LHG promotes discussion, debate and interest in the history of @UKLabour and tweets details of its upcoming events here.

[Labour History Group @LabourHistory]

Thanks to all who joined us last night to celebrate 50th anniversary of Jim Callaghan's premiership. Fascinating insights from Michael Cockerell, Peter Kellner, Baronesses Liddell, Hayter & Jay; Political Secretary Tom McNally & speechwriter Roger Carroll & GMB's Lord Whitty

[The Fabian Society @thefabians]

Need to cool down? 🌡️

In The People's Pools, a recent Fabian pamphlet, @GR1900 set out how Labour can revive the lido.

Read coverage in the Guardian to find out more👇

https://t.co/iZmWeIuVnj

[Greg Rosen @GR1900]

Channelling the 1937 #lidolandslide (almost) 90 years on: https://t.co/s3W73JWu5L

[The Fabian Society @thefabians]

How can Labour revive the lido? 🏊

In the 1930s, the Labour-led lido programme showed that municipal socialism could create popular infrastructure and political credibility.

After a sweltering week, it’s time to renew that legacy.

In The People’s Pools, @GR1900 sets out how to fund and deliver new and restored lidos.

[Ross Ahlfeld @BremenBod]

@GR1900 With Hector McNeil House gone and Hector McNeil swimming pool pulled down, we now have no civic spaces commemorating Hector McNeil.
McNeil is best remembered for brining IBM to Greenock, I’m trying to get cairn built commemorating him overlooking IBM & Gareloch where he came from

[Labour History Group @LabourHistory]

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[Martin McCluskey MP @martinmccluskey]

@BremenBod @GR1900 We need to fix that!

[Greg Rosen @GR1900]

@BremenBod Thats a wonderful piece...you are spot on...and the central role of #lido in #passporttopimlico reflected extent to which Herbert Morrison's 1930s "city of lidos" vision, which he took into 1945 govt, channelled popular enthusiasm for what practical municipal socialism could be

[Greg Rosen @GR1900]

@BremenBod Hector McNeil was hugely admired - Attlee's Sec of State for Scotland aged barely 40, then died shockingly young, barely 45. Dick Mabon who succeeded McNeil at the by-election on his death in 1955 told me that had McNeil lived that he was likely Labour leader & future PM

[Ross Ahlfeld @BremenBod]

@GR1900 another wee link between Inverclyde and Morrison, he endorsed McNeil in this local election leaflet which I actually found in the Gourock council house I live in, built in 1950, the house (and leaflet) belonged to my grandfather. We no longer believe we can achieve such greatness

[Greg Rosen @GR1900]

#heatwaveLabour 90 years since Labour strategists planned victorious "Lido Landslide" 1937 London election campaign, pledging London would be "city of Lidos" #topicallessonsfromhistory #lostlidos

[Labour History Group @LabourHistory]

Roy Hattersley. Labour giant, & friend to the Labour History Group. His contribution to our panel alongside fellow Callaghan Cabinet member Bill Rodgers to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Hugh Gaitskell was really special. He will be missed. But never forgotten.

[Nick Thomas-Symonds @NickTorfaen]

Sad news.

I’ll always remember our many chats on Harold Wilson & Labour history.

Insightful, driven by a burning sense of injustice and always kind, Roy was a remarkable politician and writer who served the Labour Party and the country with distinction.
https://t.co/u13xkR7gS1

[Nick Thomas-Symonds @NickTorfaen]

I’m thinking of the late Roy Hattersley and his family today.

He was always such interesting, engaging company.

Speaking to him together with Neil Kinnock, to whom he was such a loyal and effective Deputy Leader, was an evening to remember.

[Tides of History @labour_history]

Roy Hattersley reflects on the poverty in Sheffield in the 1950s that shaped his socialism - after spending the Summer as a milkman’s mate.

“It was my first confrontation with the idea of the underserving poor. I rejected it then and I reject it now”.

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

Clearing out my grandparents flat this weekend and coming across these treasures - thank you cards from Denis Healey and Leeds MP Joe Dean - my grandfather made their suits. He was so proud of that.

[Greg Rosen @GR1900]

A wonderful evening of insight, reminiscence & revelation...including Lord Whitty's cunning plan that almost averted Winter of Discontent. And celebration of the Premiership of one of our LHG Patrons: James Callaghan

[Peter Just @exPremiers]

🚨 Baroness Hayter begins the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan's premiership.

[Peter Just @exPremiers]

🚨 Peter Kellner is the first speaker about Jim Callaghan at the @LabourHistory event. He talks about the roots of Callaghan's political career and some of the controversies of his time as a minister.

[Peter Just @exPremiers]

🚨 Next up at the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan is Michael Cockerell, opens by referring to the full length documentary he made with Lord Callaghan in 1992, starting with Callaghan on his farm.

[Peter Just @exPremiers]

🚨 Baroness (Helen) Liddell is the next speaker at the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan.