Paul S Philippou

University of Dundee, History, Honorary Research Fellow

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First Degree: BSc. (Eng.) and ACGI in Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College of Science & Technology, University of London

Masters Degree: MSc and DIC in Fluid Mechanics, Imperial College of Science & Technology, University of London

Research Degree: PhD in History, University of Dundee - 'There is only one P in Perth. And, it stands for Pullars!': the labour, trade union, and co-operative movement in Perth, c1867-c1922.

Published Works: Spanish Thermopylae: Cypriot Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 (2009); Battleground Perthshire (2009); Perth: Street by Street (2012); Born in Perthshire (2012); Early Photographers of Perthshire (2016); Scott's Fair City (2018); Beyond the Swelkie (2021); Mind the Links: Golf Memories (2022)

Published Articles: ‘Mutually Hostile Parties?: the co-operative movement in Perth and its relationship with the labour movement, 1871-1918’, Scottish Labour History Journal (2016); 'The Fruits of Long Years of Propaganda and Unremitting Effort: Labour's “Breakthrough” in Scotland in 1922’, Scottish Labour History Journal (2018); Extended Review and Comparison of Giles Tremlett, The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and The Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Fraser Raeburn, Scots and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity, Activism and Humanitarianism (EUP, 2020), Scottish Labour History Journal (2021)

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<i>‘There is only one P in Perth - And, it stands for Pullars!'</i>:the Labour, Trade-Union, and Co-operative Movements in Perth, c. 1867 to c. 1922

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Spanish Thermopylae: the Cypriot Contribution to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Thermopylae: the Cypriot Contribution to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 2015

'Spanish Thermopylae: the Cypriot Contribution to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil... more 'Spanish Thermopylae: the Cypriot Contribution to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War'. Paper given at the International Conference 'The Spanish Civil War: Cyprus, Greece, and Europe', organised by the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus and the Prometheus Research Institute (20-21 February 2015)

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Review of Giles Tremlett, The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and The Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury, 2020), Fraser Raeburn, Scots and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity, Activism and Humanitarianism (EUP, 2020)

Scottish Journal of Labour History, 2021

Review of Giles Tremlett, The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and The Spanish Civil War ... more

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Mutually Hostile Parties? The co-operative movement in Perth and its relationship with the labour movement, 1871-1918

Scottish Journal of Labour History, 2016

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'The fruits of long years of propaganda and unremitting effort': Labour's 'breakthrough' in Scotland in 1922

Scottish Journal of Labour History , 2018

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Thesis Chapters by Paul S Philippou

University of Dundee DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 'There is only one P in Perth -And, it stands for Pullars!' the Labour, Trade-Union, and Co-operative Movements in Perth, c. 1867 to c. 1922

In recent years a number of studies within Scottish labour history have added to the discipline’s... more In recent years a number of studies within Scottish labour history have added to the discipline’s understanding and knowledge of the history of the labour and trade-union movements of several Scottish towns/cities hitherto neglected by a historiography traditionally dominated by research into the West-Central Belt. These studies, of which this thesis forms part, provide data against which generalising narratives which purport to describe the development of the labour and trade-union movements in Britain can be read - a process which ultimately must improve these now orthodox narratives or see them replaced. The thesis also provides a historical description of the progress of the labour and trade- union movements in Perth, c. 1867 to c. 1922. This study of Perth is unique in that Perth’s labour and trade-union movements have been almost entirely neglected and thus the thesis provides a substantial body of fresh observations and data in the form of a critical and comparative history of the Perth labour and trade- union movements, c. 1867 to c. 1922. Comparative considerations within the thesis revolve around existing studies of the labour and trade-union movements of Scotland’s main industrial towns/cities/areas including Paisley and the Vale of Leven which shared common features with Perth. In gathering evidence use has been made of an array of primary sources. Both qualitative and quantitative methods feature throughout the thesis which is arranged using a thematic and chronological structure. The thesis also examines the Perth co-operative movement and the city’s working-class housing, in so far as they offer an understanding of the reasons for the historical development of working-class consciousness and support for Labour in Perth. The thesis provides an example of a development of class consciousness and support for Labour that shows strong deviation with those (according to conventional Scottish labour history) found in many other parts of Scotland. In particular, the thesis considers why a significant proportion of the Perth working class either remained loyal to Liberalism or shifted allegiance to Conservatism in the very early 1920s at which point the death agony of the Liberal Party had become deafening and the rise of Labour inexorable. In addition, the thesis examines the slow development of trade unionism in Perth and its failure to make any substantial headway until almost the conclusion of the Great War. The thesis when placed alongside studies such as Catriona Macdonald’s work on Paisley adds to the case for a fragmented development of class and trade-union consciousness across Scotland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The motor for the deviation between Perth and elsewhere is shown to be due to a ‘local identity’ - in particular a lingering and powerful industrial paternalism, the absence of a sizeable and powerful branch of the Independent Labour Party, and an insular craft-union dominated trades council. Additionally, the Perth working class is shown to have played a significant role in its own subordination going so far as to act to maintain the local industrial order even as Perth’s industrial paternalists and Liberal elites were abandoning the consensus upon which it was built. 

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<i>‘There is only one P in Perth - And, it stands for Pullars!'</i>:the Labour, Trade-Union, and Co-operative Movements in Perth, c. 1867 to c. 1922

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Spanish Thermopylae: the Cypriot Contribution to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Thermopylae: the Cypriot Contribution to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 2015

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Scottish Journal of Labour History, 2021

Review of Giles Tremlett, The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and The Spanish Civil War ... more

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Mutually Hostile Parties? The co-operative movement in Perth and its relationship with the labour movement, 1871-1918

Scottish Journal of Labour History, 2016

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