Labour History Group @LabourHistory
The LHG promotes discussion, debate and interest in the history of @UKLabour and tweets details of its upcoming events here. labourhistory.org.uk Joined April 2011-
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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.
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
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
🚨 Baroness Hayter begins the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan's premiership.
🚨 Very pleased to be able to attend the @LabourHistory event on James Callaghan's premiership. 🏅 With the reminder - did we mention it? - that no former Prime Minister in British history has (to date) intervened in Parliament as an ex-PM more than 'Sunny Jim'.
🚨 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.
🚨 Baroness Hayter begins the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan's premiership.
🚨 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 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.
🚨 Baroness (Helen) Liddell is the next speaker at the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan.
🚨 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.
🚨 Next up at the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan is Baroness (Margaret) Jay, Callaghan's daughter.
🚨 Baroness (Helen) Liddell is the next speaker at the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan.
🚨 Lord (Tom) McNally is now speaking at the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan.
🚨 Next up at the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan is Baroness (Margaret) Jay, Callaghan's daughter.
🚨 Ahead of this evening's @LabourHistory event on the Callaghan Government, a reminder of where James Callaghan ranks in terms of parliamentary interventions as a former Prime Minister, from the time of his resignation as Labour leader in 1980 to his last intervention in 1999.
🚨🚨Fiftieth Anniversary of formation of Callaghan government. All-star panel including Downing St Policy Unit Chief Lord Donoughue; Scottish Labour chief Baroness Liddell; biographers Michael Cockerell & Peter Kellner; Baronesses Jay & Hayter. Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lessons-from…
Harold Wilson would have been 110 today. He is my favourite Labour PM and my illustrious predecessor, having been the MP for Huyton from 1950 to 1983. This is a pic of me, Lord Hanson and Alan Johnson at a Harold-themed fundraiser I did last year in Huyton; a great night.
Harold Wilson would have been 110 today… Here he is taking on a protestor during the 1966 election campaign “I’m afraid your aim is no better than your material my friend” 🎯
5️⃣0️⃣ years ago today, Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister He wishes he had governed in easier times “These years of office spanned a period when Britain nationally and internationally had to face storms and challenges without parallel in our peacetime history’ A thread 👇🏼
At LHG panel "Lessons for Labour from coalition & austerity: 1929-35", Phil & @greggmcclymont . Phil's essay on Lab leader Clynes just part of his legacy. With @LordJohnMann Phil played key role saving @LabourStudents from Militant, as @MichaelDugher chronicled. We'll miss him.
"We come into Parliament not to fight the class war, but to end it" - Clynes quoted by Phil Woolas at fascinating meeting on Labour history
I’m sorry to hear about the loss of Phil Woolas who served the people of Oldham East and Saddleworth as their local MP, and served the wider country as a Minister. My thoughts are with his family and many friends.
Former Labour minister dies after cancer battle bbc.in/4ltHFcR
🚨 Don't miss your chance to reserve a spot for what's clearly going to be a brilliant event on The Great Man, Jim Callaghan. 🏅 A titan of @LabourHistory, he is also a titan of the Office of Former Prime Minister, not least by being the most parliamentary active ex-PM to date.
🚨🚨Fiftieth Anniversary of formation of Callaghan government. All-star panel including Downing St Policy Unit Chief Lord Donoughue; Scottish Labour chief Baroness Liddell; biographers Michael Cockerell & Peter Kellner; Baronesses Jay & Hayter. Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lessons-from…
🚨🚨Fiftieth Anniversary of formation of Callaghan government. All-star panel including Downing St Policy Unit Chief Lord Donoughue; Scottish Labour chief Baroness Liddell; biographers Michael Cockerell & Peter Kellner; Baronesses Jay & Hayter. Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lessons-from…
🚨🚨This April, it will be Fifty Years since James Callaghan became the fourth Labour leader to be appointed Prime Minister. Labour History Group are assembling an all-star panel to commemorate the anniversary.
An all star panel is assembling, including both senior advisers to that Labour Prime Minister, and commentators.
An all star panel is assembling, including both senior advisers to that Labour Prime Minister, and commentators.
🚨🚨🚨Save the date!!! Evening of 28th April 2026. In parliament. Next Labour History Group panel. Celebrating a significant anniversary. Of a great Labour PM.
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