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March 12, 2021 hatfulofhistory

New piece for Red Pepper on the British left and the first Gulf War

January 27, 2020January 28, 2020 hatfulofhistory

Tankie: The origins of an epithet

July 13, 2019 hatfulofhistory

There is no such thing as the ‘alt left’

April 13, 2019 hatfulofhistory

‘No Platforming’ at Bristol University in the 1980s and Now

April 7, 2019 hatfulofhistory

New article on Corbyn and the historical context of the 2017 Labour manifesto

October 26, 2018 hatfulofhistory

New covers for paperback editions of books on the history of the British far left

August 2, 2018August 2, 2018 hatfulofhistory

New book: ‘Communists and Labour: The National Left-Wing Movement 1925-1929’ by Lawrence Parker (with extract)

June 11, 2018 hatfulofhistory

Communist Party of Australia’s Rupert Lockwood on the Common Market (c.1961)

March 31, 2018 hatfulofhistory

The Poll Tax ‘Riot’: Thatcher, the Met and its aftermath

March 22, 2018March 23, 2018 hatfulofhistory

Get ‘Against the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956’ for under $US 10

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  • When the fascists went to university (and the campaigns to keep them out)
    Recently there have been several mentions of Oswald Mosley being invited to speak at universities in the early 1960s. One from a piece in The Times opining for the ‘lost days of campus free speech’ and then related to Max Mosley’s recent passing, who invited his father to speak in 1961 when Secretary of the […]
  • A short interview about ‘no platform’ with Marta Santiváñez
    Last year the journalist Marta Santiváñez interviewed me about the history of ‘no platform’ as she was writing a chapter for Charlotte Lydia Riley’s edited book The Free Speech Wars. A few excerpts were published in the chapter, but I thought I would post (with Marta’s agreement) the original interview transcript.  This interview was conducted […] […]
  • Guardian piece on the ‘war on woke’ and the ‘loony left’
    A quick post to mention that last week The Guardian published a piece by myself on the Tories’ current ‘war on woke’ and its similarities with the right-wing attacks on the ‘loony left’ in the 1980s. You can read the piece here.
  • Southall 1979 pamphlet
    Today is the anniversary of the police riot in Southall on 23 April, 1979 when police attempted to break up a demonstration against the National Front outside Southall Town Hall. There were numerous injuries and over 300 arrests, while one protestor, Blair Peach, was killed. Recently declassified files reveal much more about what happened at […]
  • Turtlemania and the ninja moral panic in 1980s-90s Britain
    I am very excited that Tribune has published my piece on how the moral panics about ninja weaponry and screen violence in the 1980s led to the BBC heavily censoring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when it appeared on British television in 1990. You can find the piece here.
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