Working Class History

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Update frequency: every 16 days
Average duration: 37 minutes
Episodes: 128
Years Active: 2018 - 2025

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E110: Poll tax revolt, part 1

First of a double podcast episode about the successful mass direct action campaign against the UK poll tax in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In conversation with Dave Morris from the Tottenham Anti-…

00:43:06 | Wed 17 Sep 2025

WCL14: Live from the Working Class Literature Festival

Following our double-episode on the Florence Working-Class Literature Festival back in February, our co-host Matt was invited to this year’s festival, recording this episode on-site at the ex-GKN fac…

00:59:57 | Wed 20 Aug 2025

E109: Women in the miners' strike, part 2

Concluding part of our double episode about the crucial role played by women in the great miners’ strike in Britain, 1984-5, in conversation with Heather Wood, chair of the Easington women’s strike s…

00:25:17 | Thu 14 Aug 2025

E108: Women in the miners' strike, part 1

Double episode about the crucial role played by women in the great miners’ strike in Britain, 1984-5, in conversation with Heather Wood, chair of the Easington women’s strike support group.
Our podca…

00:26:46 | Thu 07 Aug 2025

E107: [TEASER] Fireside Chat – Hope Dies Last

Teaser of our latest Fireside Chat, available in full exclusively for our supporters on Patreon. A couple of years ago, John from WCH and Ade from our Farsi-language sister project, Daily Worker Hist…

00:12:09 | Thu 24 Jul 2025

E106: [TEASER] Radical Reads – China in Global Capitalism

This is a teaser preview of one of our Radical Reads episodes, made exclusively for our supporters on patreon. You can listen to the full 122-minute episode without ads and support our work at https:…

00:28:13 | Wed 02 Jul 2025

WCL13: Jack Hilton, Rochdale Caliban, part 2

Part 2 of our double episode on working-class author Jack Hilton, with Jack Chadwick whose literary detective work rescued Hilton from almost total obscurity. This part covers his novel Caliban Shrie…

00:39:43 | Wed 18 Jun 2025

WCL12: Jack Hilton, Rochdale Caliban, part 1

Part 1 of our double episode about Jack Hilton, a working-class author, World War I veteran, unemployed movement organiser, and trade union activist from Rochdale, north-west England.

For this episode…

00:56:25 | Wed 11 Jun 2025

E105: [TEASER] Fireside Chat – Organising in the public sector

This is a teaser preview of one of our Fireside Chat episodes, made exclusively for our supporters on Patreon. You can listen to the full 104-minute episode without ads and support our work at https:…

00:22:33 | Thu 05 Jun 2025

E104: Pirates, part 2

Second of a double podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy, with historian Marcus Rediker.
Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get excl…

00:30:07 | Wed 23 Apr 2025

E103: Pirates, part 1

First in a double podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy, with historian Marcus Rediker. The legendary pirates of this era weren’t just thieves—they were daring rebels challenging the very systems of…

00:36:02 | Wed 16 Apr 2025

E102: [TEASER] Fireside Chat – Luigi Mangione

This is a teaser preview of one of our Fireside Chat episodes, made exclusively for our supporters on Patreon. You can listen to the full 65-minute episode without ads and support our work at https:/…

00:13:21 | Wed 09 Apr 2025

WCL11: Florence Working-Class Literature Festival, part 2

Part 2 of our double-episode about the Working-Class Literature Festival held every year in Florence, at the former GKN car parts factory, which was taken over by the workers after they were made red…

00:49:46 | Wed 12 Mar 2025

WCL10: Florence Working-Class Literature Festival, part 1

First of a double-episode podcast about the Working-Class Literature Festival held every year in Florence, at the former GKN car parts factory, which was taken over by the workers after they were mad…

00:51:27 | Wed 05 Mar 2025

E101: [TEASER] Radical Reads – ‘Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics’

This is a teaser preview of one of our Radical Reads episodes, made exclusively for our supporters on patreon. You can listen to the full 87-minute episode without ads and support our work at https:/…

00:27:23 | Wed 12 Feb 2025

E100: Vietnam War strike wave, part 2

With the background of the Vietnam war, rising prices and stagnant wages, workers in the US began to ignore calls to support the war effort and keep working, and instead launch a wave of wildcat stri…

00:38:38 | Wed 05 Feb 2025

E99: Vietnam War strike wave, part 1

00:39:16 | Wed 29 Jan 2025

E98: [TEASER] Radical Reads – ‘Jews Don’t Count’ by David Baddiel

This is a teaser preview of one of our Radical Reads episodes, made exclusively for our supporters on patreon. You can listen to the full 85-minute episode without ads and support our work at https:/…

00:20:53 | Wed 01 Jan 2025

E97: [TEASER] Radical Reads – ‘Hezbollah: 10 Things You Need To Know’

This is a teaser preview of one of our Radical Reads episodes, made exclusively for our supporters on patreon. You can listen to the full 91-minute episode without ads and support our work at https:/…

00:19:10 | Wed 11 Dec 2024

E96: Bootleg miners, part 2

During the Great Depression in the US, facing mass job losses and abject poverty, thousands of coal miners in Pennsylvania took direct action and began digging their own mines on company property. We…

00:46:52 | Wed 04 Dec 2024

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