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March 24, 2021 hatfulofhistory

Will history absolve the Bristol protestors?

September 20, 2020 hatfulofhistory

Book review: Graham Macklin’s Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right

September 21, 2019 hatfulofhistory

We Call it Hiiiistory: Thinking Historically about Acid House, Rave Culture and Late Thatcherism

May 23, 2019 hatfulofhistory

Love Milkshakes, Hate Racism: A short history of throwing food at the far right

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

January 27, 2019 hatfulofhistory

Two new opinion pieces on the history of fascism and anti-fascism

August 2, 2018August 2, 2018 hatfulofhistory

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

December 14, 2017December 14, 2017 hatfulofhistory

London and the south-east regional divide in television sitcoms in Blair’s Britain

April 15, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Announcing the chapter list for ‘Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956’

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  • 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.
  • Review of ‘No Platform’ in Full Stop Mag
    It is very exciting to see a review essay by Shane Burley (author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It) for Full Stop magazine on recent anti-fascist scholarship, including my book. You can find the review here. The other two books are Stanislav Vysotsky’s American Antifa and Devin Zane Shaw’s Philosophy […]
  • The Revolutionary Communist Party and Labour politicking on Merseyside in the 1980s
    Last month a story emerged of conflict amongst the Labour Party in Liverpool over the shortlist for the party’s mayoral candidate, with accusations that the Labour Party’s national leadership was interfering in local party selection processes. Since then, another story has emerged of Labour allegedly running a ‘dysfunctional’ council in Liverpool and a propo […]
  • Will history absolve the Bristol protestors?
    This was originally posted over at my Patreon here On Sunday night, a protest against the Tories’ Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which would have put severe limitations on the right to protest in England and Wales, turned into a violent confrontation with the police. As night fell, the police used force to push […]
  • New piece for Red Pepper on the British left and the first Gulf War
    I’m delighted that Red Pepper has published a piece by myself on the history of the British left and the movement against the first Gulf War. You can read it here.
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