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Month: June 2014

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Before the ‘unity’ of Grunwick: 40 years since the Imperial Typewriters strike

June 16, 2014 hatfulofhistory

Disobedient Objects at the V&A blog: The Grunwick strike

June 13, 2014 hatfulofhistory

The British left and immigration: Weekly Worker cites Hatful of History blog

June 11, 2014 hatfulofhistory

The Conversation (UK) On Rik Mayall, The Young Ones and Thatcher

June 10, 2014June 10, 2014 hatfulofhistory

In tribute to Rik Mayall: The Young Ones, Thatcherism and the People’s Poet

June 8, 2014 hatfulofhistory

For those thinking of attending the far left seminar/book launch on Monday June 23…

June 4, 2014June 4, 2014 hatfulofhistory

June 4, 1976: Sex Pistols play Manchester for the very first time…

June 1, 2014June 1, 2014 hatfulofhistory

Against the Grain: The British far left from 1956 – now available for pre-order

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  • The Workers Revolutionary Party and the Anti-Nazi League
    This was originally posted on my Patreon here. A scan of the pamphlet discussed below can be found here. In mid-1978, the Workers Revolutionary Party published a pamphlet titled The Anti-Nazi League and Fascism, based on articles written for their newspaper, Newsline, by Jack Gale. The WRP, led by Gerry Healy, was an orthodox Trotskyist […]
  • Talk: Anti-statism, the Revolutionary Communist Party and Spiked
    On Saturday, I gave a paper at the Historical Materialism online conference titled ‘Anti-statism and the Trajectory from the Revolutionary Communist Party to Spiked’. It was recorded and is on the Haymarket Books YouTube channel. I have embedded the video above. My paper starts at about the 41 minute mark. I have posted the text […]
  • Legislating the free speech on campus culture war in the 1980s
    This was originally posted on my Patreon here. This month is the 35th anniversary of the introduction of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 which was a response by the Thatcher government to the disruptive protests on campuses in the mid-1980s which included the shutting down of talks by Conservative MPs. It is particularly prescient […]
  • 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 […]
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