Picket Line Perspectives

The existential threat to Black British History and Queer History at Goldsmiths – 2024

Administrator 26 July 202426 July 2024

A devastating new round of redundancies at Goldsmiths is threatening to close pathbreaking MA programmes in Black British History and Queer History.

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The Rising Cost of Loving

Emily Baughan 21 March 20234 April 2023

How can we understand the current wave of strikes as part of a longer struggle around the value of care work? Emily Baughan reflects from the picket line.

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Open Letter in Defence of Black British History at Goldsmiths

Administrator 14 March 202231 October 2022

An open letter from more than sixty scholars in defence of Black British History at Goldsmiths and beyond. Proposed cuts at Goldsmiths threaten the survival of field essential to understand the nation and the world’s past and present.

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The existential threat to Black British History and Queer History at Goldsmiths

Administrator 10 March 202231 October 2022

There is an urgent need for programmes that train people to research Queer History and Black British History. The first masters' programmes in these areas, at Goldsmiths, now face an existential threat due to the College's redundancy…

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Picket Line Perspectives

Administrator 28 February 202220 December 2022

Universities across the UK are taking part in the current UCU strike action over pay, pensions, and poor working conditions. On day 8 of the 10-day strike, three striking historians give us the view from picket lines across the country.

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HWJ and HWO editors object to redundancies at Goldsmiths

Administrator 26 October 20211 November 2022

History Workshop Journal and History Workshop Online editors urge withdrawal of threatened redundancies at Goldsmiths, which especially target the History and English & Creative Writing departments

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The Radical Potential of Teach Outs

Katherine Weikert 12 March 202012 January 2023

Teach outs help us remember what a university could be: Katherine Weikert on the value of teach outs in strike action.

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Picket Line Perspectives: another university seems possible

Grace Redhead & Matt Griffin 3 December 201921 January 2023

On day 7 of the 8-day UCU strike action over pay, pensions, and poor working conditions, Grace Redhead and Matt Griffin discuss precarity, inequality, outsourcing, and picket line solidarity at UCL

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Picket Line Perspectives: UCU pickets across the UK

Administrator 28 November 201931 October 2022

Sixty universities across the UK are taking part in the current UCU strike action over pay, pensions, and poor working conditions. On day 4 of the 8-day strike, six staff members taking part give us the view from picket lines across the…

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E. P. Thompson, the USS Strike and the ‘Servant Problem’

Phil Hedges 17 October 201813 December 2022

How do responses to the USS pension dispute echo Victorian complaints about the 'servant problem'? Phil Hedges explores, with some help from E. P. Thompson.

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Picket Line Perspectives – Part IV: More Than a ‘Lecturers’ Strike’

Administrator 16 March 201831 October 2022

In the final part of our series on the UCU pensions dispute, two members of university staff reflect on higher education hierarchies, media portrayals of striking workers, and the implications for non-teaching staff members.

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Picket Line Perspectives – Part III: ‘Solidarity Forever’

Administrator 16 March 201810 January 2023

On the final day of a fourteen day strike across UK universities against cuts to pensions, four historians discuss camaraderie, solidarity and picket line poetry, and consider how to build on the achievements of the past four weeks.

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#pensionssyllabus

Administrator 13 March 201820 January 2023

Books, articles and digital content that can help us put larger debates about pensions, fair pay and retirement into historical perspective.

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Picket Line Perspectives – Part II: ‘Courage grows from a wound’

Administrator 8 March 20185 November 2022

As students occupy and vice-chancellors U-turn during a 14-day strike across UK universities against cuts to pensions, 6 lecturers, professors, and undergraduates share strike stories of exploitation, marketisation, and mobilisation.

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Picket Line Perspectives: Historians on the Pensions Strike

Administrator 28 February 201831 October 2022

On day five of a fourteen day strike across UK universities against cuts to pensions, four historians share reflections from the picket lines on solidarity, precarity, and the marketisation of education.

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Picket Line Perspectives

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Series

The existential threat to Black British History and Queer History at Goldsmiths – 2024

The Rising Cost of Loving

Open Letter in Defence of Black British History at Goldsmiths

The existential threat to Black British History and Queer History at Goldsmiths

Picket Line Perspectives

HWJ and HWO editors object to redundancies at Goldsmiths

The Radical Potential of Teach Outs

Picket Line Perspectives: another university seems possible

Picket Line Perspectives: UCU pickets across the UK

E. P. Thompson, the USS Strike and the ‘Servant Problem’

Picket Line Perspectives – Part IV: More Than a ‘Lecturers’ Strike’

Picket Line Perspectives – Part III: ‘Solidarity Forever’

#pensionssyllabus

Picket Line Perspectives – Part II: ‘Courage grows from a wound’

Picket Line Perspectives: Historians on the Pensions Strike