New Historical Express

Category: Government inquiries

Commission for Racial Equality, Government inquiries, Home Office, Immigration, immigration controls, Virginity testing

When the UK government tried to thwart an investigation of racism in the border control system
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
1989, Archives, Contemporary history, Criminal justice system, Criminology, crowd control, Football, Government inquiries, Hillsborough, Liverpool, Margaret Thatcher, Policing history, Public Order Act, Public order issues, State crime, State violence, Thatcherism

Historians and the online archive of the Hillsborough Independent Panel
Announcements, bloggy stuff, Books, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Commission for Racial Equality, Contemporary history, Criminology, Government inquiries, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, Intersectionality, National Archives (UK), Profiling, Racial discrimination, Research, The Guardian, UKBA, Virginity testing, Women’s history

Guest post at Border Criminologies
Announcements, Books, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Commission for Racial Equality, Contemporary history, Criminology, Deleuze, Feminism, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Government inquiries, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, Intersectionality, Melanie Phillips, Modern European History, National Archives (UK), Racial discrimination, The Guardian, Tories, UKBA, Virginity testing, Women’s history, X-rays

Out Now! Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control has been published
Archives, Baader-Meinhof, British History, Contemporary history, Counter-terrorism history, Criminology, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, German history, Government inquiries, Hansard, Ian Macleod, Modern European History, New Left, Policing history, Political violence, Red Army Fraction/RAF, Research, Terrorism, Youth culture

Piecing together the death of Ian Macleod: The responses in West Germany and Britain
1981 riots, 2011 riots, Anti-racism, British ‘race relations’, British History, Contemporary history, Criminology, Government inquiries, Macpherson Report, Policing history, Profiling, Public order issues, Racial discrimination, Scarman Report, Stephen Lawrence, Stuart Hall

From Scarman to Macpherson to Ellison
Announcements, Archives, Biopolitics, Books, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Contemporary history, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Government inquiries, Immigration, National Archives (UK), Profiling, Racial discrimination, Research, The Guardian, UK Labour Party, Virginity testing, Women’s history, X-rays

The ‘virginity testing’ controversy 35 years on