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Month: September 2012

September 28, 2012 hatfulofhistory

CFP: Gender and Justice in South Asia since 1757

September 26, 2012September 28, 2012 hatfulofhistory

The Selecter are coming to Adelaide, but Morrissey is not.

September 24, 2012September 24, 2012 hatfulofhistory

More on inquests and inquiries in Thatcherite Britain

September 20, 2012September 21, 2012 hatfulofhistory

Ten New Books I’m Dying to Read

September 18, 2012September 18, 2012 hatfulofhistory

‘Race relations’, government accountability and public inquiries in the UK, 1979-1981

September 13, 2012September 13, 2012 hatfulofhistory

Two reports that have been released

September 11, 2012September 11, 2012 hatfulofhistory

For those interested in history and popular culture

September 10, 2012 hatfulofhistory

Before Facebook (and even before Myspace)…

September 6, 2012September 6, 2012 hatfulofhistory

Gary Foley and The Clash

September 5, 2012September 5, 2012 hatfulofhistory

Youth Culture and Politics in Contemporary British History Journal

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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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