Category: Nationalism
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British attitudes towards the ‘White Australia Policy’ in the inter-war period
I am currently writing a research article on the British Union of Fascists’ view of Australia and how it fit into the fascist view of empire in the inter-war period. As Paul Stocker has recently written, the fascist view of empire was predominantly an extension of already existing conservative attitudes towards the empire, but was…
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British fascism and perceptions of Australia
Despite the centrality of the British Union of Fascists’ pro-imperialism, there has been little written on the BUF and its imperial policy (possibly with exception to the party’s attitude towards India). The attitude of the BUF towards the Dominions (in particular Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia) has not been explored in any…
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Mr Gove, film can never replicate historical ‘truth’
The last few days has seen a historiographical debate about the First World War played out in the media between Michael Gove, the Conservative Education Minister, and several different historians, including Richard J. Evans and Tristram Hunt, with plenty of others weighing in (see this article in The Guardian for a good summary). One of Gove’s…
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The Communist Party and the Union Jack
One of the continuing debates on the British left is how does the left interact with national identity and notions of ‘Britishness’. While many praise the internationalist traditions of the labour movement, inherited from Marx and Engels proposition that working people have no country, a significant number of people on the left have tried to…
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