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September 18, 2021 hatfulofhistory

A new piece about historians’ weird archival finds

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The BNP and the hijacking of the Free Speech Society at Leeds University

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Collected reviews of ‘No Platform’ book

July 4, 2021 hatfulofhistory

Marxism and football at the 1966 World Cup: How North Korea captured a socialist imagination

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CFP: Australian workers and anti-colonialism in the 20th century

June 27, 2021 hatfulofhistory

Me in Jacobin on Australian universities and the free speech culture wars

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When the fascists went to university (and the campaigns to keep them out)

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A short interview about ‘no platform’ with Marta Santiváñez

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Guardian piece on the ‘war on woke’ and the ‘loony left’

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Southall 1979 pamphlet

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  • A new piece about historians’ weird archival finds
    A few weeks ago, I put out a simple tweet about what made historians go ‘wait, wut?’ while doing research and got hundreds of replies. The Conversation has published a piece by me reflecting on some of the stories that I got from other historians. You can find it here.
  • The BNP and the hijacking of the Free Speech Society at Leeds University
    In the House of Commons yesterday, the Tories’ Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill was debated. Labour MP Alex Sobel, who attended Leeds University, told the story of Mark Collett and Chris Beverley, who were BNP members that tried to overturn the ‘no platform’ policy at Leeds in the early 2000s, via the Free Speech […]
  • Collected reviews of ‘No Platform’ book
    My book, No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech, has been out for a year and has been reviewed in several publications. I thought I’d collect them here, particularly as they’re an easy reference point for me then. Review by Nick Hillman in Times Higher Education. Mike Makin-Waite, ‘Controversial […]
  • Marxism and football at the 1966 World Cup: How North Korea captured a socialist imagination
    Ever since the English football team was denounced for taking the knee by some right-wing pundits, who claimed that this was a symbolic action of the ‘Marxist’ Black Lives Matter movement, the meme of the English players as revolutionary Marxists has become widespread. Since English football has embraced Marxism, it has been memed, football is […]
  • CFP: Australian workers and anti-colonialism in the 20th century
    Here is a call for papers that I am involved with. “Imperialism and its agents must be destroyed”: Australian Workers and Anti-Colonialism in the twentieth century 3-4 February, 2022 Online symposium (via Zoom) Keynotes: Professor Ann Curthoys (Sydney) & Professor John Maynard (Newcastle) The Australian working-class movement has a mixed history of inter […]
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