New Historical Express

Category: Archives

Archives, Digital humanities, history from below, labour history

Talk: The Opportunities and Limits of Digital Radical Archives (video)
Archives, Counter-terrorism history, National Archives (UK), Red Army Fraction/RAF, Terrorism, West Germany

The West German police, the RAF manhunt and the killing of a British citizen: Reading the (slim) FCO file on the death of Iain Macleod
Archives, Declassified, Policing history, Security services (UK), surveillance

Using surveillance records as a historical source
Archives, Public service announcements, social media

A new piece about historians’ weird archival finds
Archives, Australian far left, British far left, Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Great Britain, Digital humanities, Euroscepticism, Rupert Lockwood, Scans, Uncategorized

Communist Party of Australia’s Rupert Lockwood on the Common Market (c.1961)
Archives, British far left, Margaret Thatcher, Militant/Socialist Party, National Archives (UK), Policing history, Poll Tax, Thatcherism, Uncategorized

The Poll Tax ‘Riot’: Thatcher, the Met and its aftermath
Anti-communism, Archives, Australian history, Communist Party of Australia, National Archives of Australia, National Front of Australia, Research, Research suggestions, Socialist Party of Australia, State Library of Victoria, Uncategorized

Archives of political extremism in Australia: A short guide
anti-fascism, Anti-racism, Archives, British far left, Communist Party of Great Britain, Digital humanities

Archiving the left – CPGB’s ‘Racism: How to Combat It’ (1978)