Author: hatfulofhistory
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‘No platforming’ homophobes in the 1980s
As it is LGBT+ History Month in the UK this month, I thought I’d share a short story of protest against homophobia in Britain in the 1980s by students at Swansea University. This story can be found in my book No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech. When the…
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Media Bits on history of fascism and anti-fascism in australia
Over the holiday break, our book, Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia, was published. Last week there were two bits of media coverage relating to the book. The first was an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Peter Hartcher on the history of Australian fascism, including a few quotes from me. The second…
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New article on RCP and the red front
This is just a quick announcement that my article on the Revolutionary Communist Party’s The Red Front has been published by Contemporary British History journal. I started working on this in 2017 and the final article is over 20,000 words. You can find it here.
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New article on alien registration in inter-war australia
This is just a quick announcement that my article ‘The Bureaucratic Limits of a National Security Agenda: The Winding Road of Alien Registration in Interwar Australia’ has been published in Australian Historical Studies journal. You can download it here. If you don’t have access, please get in touch!
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‘Rather swamped’: Thatcher, moral panics and racist rhetoric
There has been shock at the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, using the word ‘invasion’ in a parliamentary speech to describe the arrival of those seeking asylum in Britain. However, this kind of rhetoric has a much longer history, with politicians since the 1890s using the term ‘invasion’ and similar phrases. The following post is about…
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Article on polarisation in Jacobin
I am very excited to announce that Jacobin published a piece by Aurelien Mondon and myself on the centrist myth of polarisation and the false equivalence of radicalism on the right and left in the liberal mainstream. You can read the piece here. Aurelien and I are also pleased to see that it has been…
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Special journal issue on Global Maoisms
I am very excited to announce that the special issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal that I edited on Global Maoisms has been published. You can find the issue here. My introduction is free to download, as well as two other articles – one on Maoism in Hong Kong and one on Maoism in Greece.
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CFP: The British Far Left from 1956 (new volume)
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE BRITISH FAR LEFT FROM 1956 (NEW VOLUME) It has been five years since we published Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956 and the scholarship on the history of the British left has grown considerably in this time. We are also starting to see historical analysis of the…
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New book on history of fascism and anti-fascism in Australia is now ready for pre-order
This is just a quick announcement that the book that I have co-edited with Jayne Persian and Vashti Jane Fox, Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia, is now available for pre-order. The book is part of Routledge’s Fascism and the Far Right series and will be out in December 2022. If you order at…
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The West German police, the RAF manhunt and the killing of a British citizen: Reading the (slim) FCO file on the death of Iain Macleod
This is the draft of a paper that I presented at the online conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians last year. It is a reading of the rather slim FCO file on the death of Iain Macleod, a British citizen who was killed by the West German police during a raid on a…
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