{"id":1994,"date":"2026-10-13T13:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:43:09","slug":"workers-in-london-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"Workers in London Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Working class radicals, trade unionists and socialists on the London School Board and the first years of the London County Council, 1870-1914<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Launch of a <em>Socialist History Society<\/em> publication by Duncan Bowie<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>10 November 2026 at 7pm London time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All welcome, but you will need to register in advance:-<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/C3Ausa0ZQkCEFg5TCk2x0g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/C3Ausa0ZQkCEFg5TCk2x0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Duncan Bowie<\/strong> is a historian and town planner. He is a research associate of University College London and currently co-chair of the Socialist History Society. His recent books include <em>Reform and Revolt in the City of Dreaming Spires<\/em> (2018) and <em>The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning<\/em> (2017). He has also contributed to several SHS publications.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/london-school-board-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/london-school-board-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/london-school-board-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/london-school-board-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/london-school-board-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/london-school-board-175x117.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/london-school-board.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working class radicals, trade unionists and socialists on the London School Board and the first years of the London County Council, 1870-1914 Launch of a Socialist History Society publication by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-shs-meetings","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}