NEW: UK must make training the ‘go-to’ response to skills needs, or risk holding back growth. 📣 Our new report for @nuffieldfoundation.org shows the Government’s plans to grow the economy risk falling short unless it reverses sharp falls in employee training. Read @financialtimes.com coverage. ⬇️

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#OtD 27 Aug 1889 the great strike of East End Jewish tailors in London, UK began during a dockers' strike. Despite the antipathy of the dockers' union leader, the tailors held out until October when the employers caved in stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9881...

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A little reminder for all the amazing teachers and education staff - your wellbeing matters too. 📞 Call us, we’ll listen: 08000 562 561 📷 IG: IntrovertDoodles

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📣📣 In today’s paper 🗞️. A pleasure to be interviewed by Sofie Mulders for @demorgen.be, discussing women’s rights - past, present and future - and what history can teach us, as seen through the lens of #Economica 📗 (out now in Dutch with Meulenhoff, translated by Anne Marie Koper). #econhist

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#OtD 11 Aug 1984 during the great miners' strike, 23,000 women marched in London against pit closures. Women Against Pit Closures played a crucial role in supporting the strike more info in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/10/30/e...

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