Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs.bsky.social
Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
Nutmeg published the extract linked above but a longer version along with other writing on Scottish football, politics and society appears in McIlvanney’s Surviving the Shipwreck anthology.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Nutmeg published the extract linked above but a longer version along with other writing on Scottish football, politics and society appears in McIlvanney’s Surviving the Shipwreck anthology.
This is an important overview of the Scottish renewables jobs situation from @scottishtuc.bsky.social in a concise report.🔽
stuc.org.uk/resources/on...
Renewables employment is dominated by small firms, often sole traders.
Fewer Scots work in wind than energy efficient products.
stuc.org.uk/resources/on...
Renewables employment is dominated by small firms, often sole traders.
Fewer Scots work in wind than energy efficient products.
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This is an important overview of the Scottish renewables jobs situation from @scottishtuc.bsky.social in a concise report.🔽
stuc.org.uk/resources/on...
Renewables employment is dominated by small firms, often sole traders.
Fewer Scots work in wind than energy efficient products.
stuc.org.uk/resources/on...
Renewables employment is dominated by small firms, often sole traders.
Fewer Scots work in wind than energy efficient products.
Sunset over the Clyde.
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Sunset over the Clyde.
10k run under the winter sun
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
10k run under the winter sun
Linn Park, the country in the city.
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Linn Park, the country in the city.
Running in the rain 🏃♂️
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Running in the rain 🏃♂️
More anonymised parliamentary briefing should include quotes from historians.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
More anonymised parliamentary briefing should include quotes from historians.
Running by the bare trees. 🏃♂️
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Running by the bare trees. 🏃♂️
Sending off proofs for an essay about how oil transformed work and community in Northern Scotland through rig manufacturing in the Cromarty Firth and the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland. It uses oral histories with workers and members of their families and archival research.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sending off proofs for an essay about how oil transformed work and community in Northern Scotland through rig manufacturing in the Cromarty Firth and the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland. It uses oral histories with workers and members of their families and archival research.
The Gorbals looking pretty in the winter sky.
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Gorbals looking pretty in the winter sky.
Some of the illustrations are fantastic. There are a few of prominent individuals but they are predominantly depictions of a vibrant movement.
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Some of the illustrations are fantastic. There are a few of prominent individuals but they are predominantly depictions of a vibrant movement.
When my colleague Jim Tomlinson retired he kindly gave me this book the TUC published to celebrate its centenary.
It’s a very interesting product of its time - a confident account of organised labour’s forward march towards a more democratic more egalitarian society.
It’s a very interesting product of its time - a confident account of organised labour’s forward march towards a more democratic more egalitarian society.
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When my colleague Jim Tomlinson retired he kindly gave me this book the TUC published to celebrate its centenary.
It’s a very interesting product of its time - a confident account of organised labour’s forward march towards a more democratic more egalitarian society.
It’s a very interesting product of its time - a confident account of organised labour’s forward march towards a more democratic more egalitarian society.
An upside down cat 🐈⬛
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
An upside down cat 🐈⬛
Enjoyed the Glasgow leg of @dominicmhinde.bsky.social’s book tour. Drifting North is a journey through the people and places which have made Scotland formative to the making of carbon capitalism but which are now facing up to building a new world shaped by climate change.
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Enjoyed the Glasgow leg of @dominicmhinde.bsky.social’s book tour. Drifting North is a journey through the people and places which have made Scotland formative to the making of carbon capitalism but which are now facing up to building a new world shaped by climate change.
Saturday morning 10k in the wind and the rain 🏃♂️
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Saturday morning 10k in the wind and the rain 🏃♂️
Analogies tend to be made between now and the 70s for understandable reasons, but I’m tempted to say the 2020s chimes with the 1920s:
An old two party system dying.
Short lived prime ministers.
Britain struggled to find a place in a volatile international order.
Economic precarity.
An old two party system dying.
Short lived prime ministers.
Britain struggled to find a place in a volatile international order.
Economic precarity.
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Analogies tend to be made between now and the 70s for understandable reasons, but I’m tempted to say the 2020s chimes with the 1920s:
An old two party system dying.
Short lived prime ministers.
Britain struggled to find a place in a volatile international order.
Economic precarity.
An old two party system dying.
Short lived prime ministers.
Britain struggled to find a place in a volatile international order.
Economic precarity.
The Scottish government's discussion of conditionalities on future funding is a hopeful sign for making this happen. It echoes Riyoko Shibe's recent Just Transition Commission report which John Swinney referred to in his speech yesterday. Report 🔽
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Scottish government's discussion of conditionalities on future funding is a hopeful sign for making this happen. It echoes Riyoko Shibe's recent Just Transition Commission report which John Swinney referred to in his speech yesterday. Report 🔽
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
With @riyokoshibe.bsky.social at the Just Transition Commission’s summit in Edinburgh.
We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.
We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
With @riyokoshibe.bsky.social at the Just Transition Commission’s summit in Edinburgh.
We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.
We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.
Enjoyed discussing how work and inequality are being remade by AI with colleagues from Economic and Social History and other subjects earlier. Thanks to the Political Economy Futures Forum for organising an interesting event.
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Enjoyed discussing how work and inequality are being remade by AI with colleagues from Economic and Social History and other subjects earlier. Thanks to the Political Economy Futures Forum for organising an interesting event.
Happy National Black Cat Day from Izzy! 🐈⬛
October 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Happy National Black Cat Day from Izzy! 🐈⬛
Aberdeen away ole ole!
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Aberdeen away ole ole!