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Month: February 2014

February 26, 2014February 26, 2014 hatfulofhistory

The intersectional politics of the Grunwick strike

February 25, 2014February 25, 2014 hatfulofhistory

Feb 25, 1956: Khrushchev gives “Secret Speech” to 20th Congress of the CPSU

February 19, 2014 hatfulofhistory

Envisioning the postcolonial world: The Communist Party of Great Britain and post-imperial relationships

February 17, 2014 hatfulofhistory

Celebrating Stuart Hall and Marxism Today: A list of Hall’s articles 1979-1998

February 13, 2014 hatfulofhistory

Forthcoming: Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control – Subject to Examination

February 11, 2014 hatfulofhistory

Stuart Hall, Marxism Today and the ruptures in Thatcherism’s early years

February 7, 2014January 14, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Sectarian hilarity for the left-wing trainspotter! The UK Spartacist League’s papers from 1978-2011 now digitised and online

February 6, 2014 hatfulofhistory

Communist Party’s ‘Charter of Rights for coloured workers in Britain’ (1955)

February 1, 2014 hatfulofhistory

The ‘virginity testing’ controversy 35 years on

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A new piece about historians’ weird archival finds
The BNP and the hijacking of the Free Speech Society at Leeds University
Collected reviews of ‘No Platform’ book
Marxism and football at the 1966 World Cup: How North Korea captured a socialist imagination
CFP: Australian workers and anti-colonialism in the 20th century

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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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