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October 17, 2016 hatfulofhistory

Starting a discussion about self-archiving political movements and the international left

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Turning that blog post into a journal article: A quick guide

May 23, 2016 hatfulofhistory

How to navigate the Comintern archives online: A guide for the non-Russian speaker

September 19, 2015September 19, 2015 hatfulofhistory

Are labour historians still doing labour history?

February 26, 2015 hatfulofhistory

The pitfalls of interdisciplinary research

December 10, 2014December 10, 2014 hatfulofhistory

New article: Thatcherism and The Young Ones

July 7, 2014 hatfulofhistory

Deny, normalise and obfuscate: The Home Office in the 1980s and the abuse of South Asian women

January 8, 2014January 8, 2014 hatfulofhistory

Mr Gove, film can never replicate historical ‘truth’

December 27, 2013 hatfulofhistory

Why studying film helped me become a better historian

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The Workers Revolutionary Party and the Anti-Nazi League
Talk: Anti-statism, the Revolutionary Communist Party and Spiked
Legislating the free speech on campus culture war in the 1980s
A new piece about historians’ weird archival finds
The BNP and the hijacking of the Free Speech Society at Leeds University

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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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