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October 7, 2020 hatfulofhistory

Review of ‘No Platform’ in Twentieth Century British History

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The ‘Battle of Cable Street’ and the Origins of ‘No Platform’

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New piece in Times Higher Ed on Education (No. 2) Act 1986 and the Tories

September 20, 2020 hatfulofhistory

Book review: Graham Macklin’s Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right

September 14, 2020 hatfulofhistory

New journal article on neo-Nazism and border control in Britain and Australia

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 hatfulofhistory

The free speech on campus culture war rages on

August 26, 2020 hatfulofhistory

Chapter 1 of the ‘No Platform’ book free to download

August 25, 2020 hatfulofhistory

So I started a Patreon…

August 20, 2020 hatfulofhistory

My review of Jeff Sparrow’s Fascists Among Us

August 12, 2020 hatfulofhistory

Nigel Biggar says I’m wrong and piece for History Workshop Online

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Review of ‘No Platform’ in Twentieth Century British History
The ‘Battle of Cable Street’ and the Origins of ‘No Platform’
New piece in Times Higher Ed on Education (No. 2) Act 1986 and the Tories
Book review: Graham Macklin’s Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right
New journal article on neo-Nazism and border control in Britain and Australia

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Review of ‘No Platform’ in Twentieth Century British History
I am excited that my book has had its first review in an academic journal, Twentieth Century British History, and can report that it is very positive! The review, by Hallam Roffey at the University of Sheffield, concludes with the following: This is, though, a crucial intervention and an imperative text for those interested in […]
The ‘Battle of Cable Street’ and the Origins of ‘No Platform’
Tomorrow (October 4) is the anniversary of the ‘Battle of Cable Street’. This post, adapted from my book, looks at how this event in 1936 influenced anti-fascists and the student left in the 1970s in their adoption of the ‘no platform’ policy and tactic. ‘No platform’ emerged out of a much longer anti-fascist tradition in […]
New piece in Times Higher Ed on Education (No. 2) Act 1986 and the Tories
With Gavin Williamson proposing new legislation to compel student unions to maintain free speech on campus, Times Higher Education has published an opinion piece by myself on the attempt by the Thatcher government in 1986 to ban ‘no platforming’ with the Education (No. 2) Act. You can find it here and a longer version on […]
Book review: Graham Macklin’s Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right
This was originally published on my Patreon here. Subscribe and help me continue my research and writing endeavours. Failed Führers is the new book by scholar of British fascism, Graham Macklin, published as part of Routledge’s Fascism and the Far Right series, and is the result of years of meticulous research on the history of […]
New journal article on neo-Nazism and border control in Britain and Australia
I am very excited to announce that my new article, ‘Keeping the Nazi Menace Out: George Lincoln Rockwell and the Border Control System in Australia and Britain in the Early 1960s’, has been published in the journal Social Sciences. This is part of the ARC project, ‘Managing Migrants and Border Control in Britain and Australia, […]

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