Category: Research suggestions
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Some highlights from the CIA’s recent document dump online
This week, the Central Intelligence Agency uploaded more than 12 million documents onto its online library, allowing access to previously unavailable declassified material ranging from the 1940s to the 1990s. There is a lot of interesting material for researchers to wade through, but here are some of my initial highlights: A 1949 report on the…
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Full run of IMG’s ‘The Red Mole’ is now online
This is just a quick post to note that the blog Red Mole Rising has been resurrected and is now uploading many new interesting documents relating to the International Marxist Group, the USFI and Socialist Action. As part of this, the blog has uploaded the entire run of the IMG newspaper The Red Mole, alongside…
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Are labour historians still doing labour history?
#twitterstorians, @liz_beths and I are pondering, is labour history dead? #labourhistory — Evan Smith (@Hatfulofhistory) September 19, 2015 Today I have been having a discussion with several friends on social media over the question that an academic posited to me – is labour history dead? As part of that discussion, most of us have argued…
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ASIO and B.A. Santamaria: Duelling Anti-Communisms
The Australian has had a love-in this week with Catholic anti-communist B.A. Santamaria, with pieces by Tony Abbott and Gerard Henderson celebrating Santamaria’s anti-communist crusade inside and outside the Australian labour movement since the 1940s, and Greg Sheridan disclosing how his work inside the National Civic Council led him to crosspaths with ASIO and conduct…
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New Communist History Online Resources
Just a quick post to let those interested in Communist history that there are two new online resources to play with! Firstly, the Russian Archives have now made the Comintern Online Archive free to access. The website is only navigable in Russian at the moment, but after playing around with Google translate, I have been…
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What does the term ‘black’ mean for historians of Afro-Caribbean & Asian activism in 1970s Britain?
Should historians of Afro-Caribbean and Asian activism in Britain in the 1970s-80s use the term ‘black’ to describe these people and their communities? Or does the term ‘black’ as a political category belong to a by-gone era? From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, many African-Caribbean and South Asian activists in Britain used the…
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New left history resource: SLL/WRP’s Labour Review & Fourth International
This is just a quick post to let the usual left-wing trainspotters that the Encyclopedia for Trotskyism Online (ETOL) has now digitised the entire run of two journals belonging to the Healyite Socialist Labour League (after 1973 the Workers Revolutionary Party). The first is Labour Review, which ran from 1952 to 1963. This was the…
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UK High Commissioner Morrice James on the Whitlam Dismissal 1975
I have blogged in the past about the files at the National Archives in London revealing the British attitudes towards the ‘constitutional crisis’ of 1975, when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr after the Liberals, under the leadership of Malcolm Fraser, refused to pass supply bills in the Senate.…
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