New Historical Express

Category: Contemporary history

anti-fascism, Australian history, British History, Contemporary history, Fascism, free speech, Higher Edcuation, National Action, National Front of Australia, National Union of Students, no platform, Oswald Mosley, Powellism, protest, Public service announcements, Right-wing extremism/radicalism, Right-wing populism, Settler colonialism

Two new opinion pieces on the history of fascism and anti-fascism
1981 riots, anti-fascism, Anti-racism, Black power, British ‘race relations’, British far left, Communist Party of Great Britain, Contemporary history, Darcus Howe, IS/SWP, Margaret Thatcher, Marxism, Marxism Today, protest, Public order issues, Race Today, Riots, Thatcherism

Race, class and black rebellion in Britain, 1976-1981
ASIO, Australian history, Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), Contemporary history, Criminology, Feminism, National Archives of Australia, Papers/Seminars, protest, Socialist Party of Australia, Women’s history, Women’s liberation

ASIO and surveillance of the women’s liberation movement in Australia in the 1970s
Archives, ASIO, Contemporary history, Feminism, Germaine Greer, National Archives of Australia, Uncategorized, Women’s history, Women’s liberation

ASIO memo on Germaine Greer from 1971
1989, Acid house, Archives, British History, Club culture, Contemporary history, Criminal justice system, Criminology, Drugs, Electronic music, Hacienda, Home Office, Margaret Thatcher, Pop music, Popular culture, Public Order Act, Public order issues, Rave culture, Thatcherism, Uncategorized, Youth culture

Policing Acid House Parties in 1989: What the new Thatcher Government papers reveal
Anti-colonialism, British far left, British Road to Socialism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Conferences, Connolly Association, Contemporary history, Irish Democrat, Irish history, Irish left, Irish Republicanism, Northern Ireland, Northern Irish Civil Rights Association, Papers/Seminars

The Communist Party of Great Britain and the ‘Irish Question’, 1949-1968
Archives, British History, Contemporary history, Criminal justice system, Criminology, crowd control, Government inquiries, Hillsborough, Home Office, labour history, Law & order, Macpherson Report, Margaret Thatcher, Miners’ Strikes, National Archives (UK), Orgreave, Police violence, Policing history, protest, Protest laws, Public order issues, Riots, Scarman Report, State violence, Thatcherism, Tories, Trade unions

Orgreave is not merely history, but an important historical incident that needs to be fully investigated
academia, anti-fascism, Anti-revisionism, Appeals, Archives, bloggy stuff, British far left, Contemporary history, Digital humanities, DIY, Flyers and ephemera, Historical methods, history from below, International communist movement, Maoism, Popular memory, Scans, social movements, Trotskyism

Starting a discussion about self-archiving political movements and the international left