Category: Modern European History
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CFP: XXVth Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, Monash University, 11-14 July 2017
Monash would like to invite you to the XXVth Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, to be held at Monash University’s Caulfield Campus in Melbourne. Europe’s Entanglements Location: Monash University (Melbourne), 11 – 14 July 2017 Contact: arts-AAEH2017@monash.edu Website: http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/australasian-association-for-european-history-2017/ First deadline for paper and panel proposals: 30 September 2016 As Europe commemorates the centenary of the…
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Celebrating VE Day in the Tribune and Daily Worker
To celebrate the 71st anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Allies in May 1945, here’s how the Communist Party of Australia’s Tribune celebrated the victory, compared with the reporting of the victory by the Communist Party of Great Britain’s Daily Worker.
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‘Fortress Britain’ and the end of the Cold War
Timothy Garton Ash wrote in The Guardian this week that the walls and barriers that had fallen in 1989 were being rebuilt in 2015. A cartoon in the pages of Marxism Today published in December 1989 seems to have made the same argument – that while the West celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall,…
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Archive of Connolly Association’s ‘Irish Democrat’ now online
This is a guest post by Gerard Madden. Gerard Madden is an Irish Research Council funded PhD student in NUI Galway, currently completing a dissertation on ‘Irish Catholic anti-communism in the era of Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, 1940-1971’. A founding member of the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class, he is interested…
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The Communist Party and Mosley’s Union Movement, 1947-51
News came through this week that veteran anti-fascist campaigner Morris Beckman had died. Beckman had been involved in the 43 Group, a militant anti-fascist organisation set up in the late 1940s to combat Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement. The 43 Group worked alongside the Communist Party of Great Britain to fight the UM in the late…
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CFP: From Civil Rights to the Bailout (NIU Galway)
Here is a post from my friend David Convery: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, WORKERS AGITATION AND LEFT-WING ACTIVISM IN IRELAND, 1968-2010 CALL FOR PAPERS Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class NUI Galway 19-20 June 2015 From the Civil Rights Movement to contemporary protests against austerity, the years since 1968 have witnessed widespread and varied social…
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How the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall
Two days before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the Morning Star (the paper nominally tied to the newly established Communist Party of Britain) had a two page spread celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917. Interviewing Yuri Kasin of the Soviet Union’s Social Sciences Institute, the article praised…
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Review of Sheila Fitzpatrick’s A Spy in the Archives
This is just a quick post to note that my review of Sheila Fitzpatrick’s A Spy in the Archives (Melbourne University Press, 2013) has been published in the latest issue of Agora, the journal of the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria. As the journal is not really available online, I have posted a pre-print version…
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The PFLP/RAF terrorist who evaded the UK border control system: Zohair Akache and the ‘German Autumn’
In 1980, Lord Carrington, the new Foreign Secretary under Margaret Thatcher, ordered a review of how the UK border control system was utilised in the fight against terrorism, particularly in relation to terrorists from the Middle East and North Africa. The catalyst for this review were two incidents in May 1980 – the siege at…
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