New Historical Express

Category: Conservatives

alt right, Conservatives, Fascism, Right-wing extremism/radicalism, Right-wing populism, UKIP, Uncategorized

Today’s right-wing talking points resurrect yesterday’s fascist tropes
Conservatives, Elections, Harold Wilson, labour history, Tories, UK Labour Party, Uncategorized

‘Who Governs Britain?’: The last time the Tories called a snap election…
1989, Archives, British History, Conservatives, Criminology, crowd control, Football, Hillsborough, Hooliganism, Law & order, Margaret Thatcher, Policing history, Public Order Act, Public order issues, Thatcherism, Tories, Uncategorized

Policing football crowds and the aftermath of Hillsborough: What the new Thatcher papers reveal, pt 2
Brexit, British ‘race relations’, Conservatives, European Union, Home Office, Immigration, Margaret Thatcher, National Front, Parliament, Party manifestos, Right-wing populism, Theresa May, UKIP

Theresa May and UKIP: A repeat of Thatcher and the NF in ’79?
1968, anti-fascism, Anti-racism, British ‘race relations’, British far left, Communist Party of Great Britain, Conservatives, Enoch Powell, Fascism, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, National Front, Powellism, Racial discrimination, Racist violence, Right-wing extremism/radicalism, Right-wing populism, Tories

Powellism and the advent of the British far right: The Communist Party response
43 Group, anti-fascism, Anti-Nazi League, Anti-racism, Anti-semitism, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, British National Party, British Union of Fascists, Communist Party of Great Britain, Conservatives, Contemporary history, Enoch Powell, Fascism, International Marxist Group, IS/SWP, labour history, Maoism, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, National Union of Students, New Left, protest, Protest laws, Public order issues, Race Relations Act, Racial discrimination, Racist violence, Red Lion Square, Red Mole, Right-wing extremism/radicalism, Right-wing populism, Tories, Trotskyism

‘By whatever means necessary’: The origins of the ‘no platform’ policy
Agee/Hosenball, Archives, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Conservatives, Contemporary history, Counter-terrorism history, Criminology, Embassies and diplomatic staff, Embassies and protest, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Immigration, Iranian Embassy Siege, Irish terrorism, Lord Carringron, Margaret Thatcher, Middle East/North Africa, National Archives (UK), Northern Ireland, Political violence, Prevention of Terrorism Acts, Research, Security services (UK), Terrorism, UKBA

Removing the barriers to deportation from the UK: Lord Carrington and counter-terrorist efforts in the early 1980s
Anti-communism, British Commonwealth, British far left, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Conservatives, Decolonisation, Empire, Espionage, Marxism, South Africa, UK Labour Party

Tory anti-communism in the early 1950s