New Historical Express

Category: Handsworth

1981 riots, 1985 riots, Archives, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, Contemporary history, Crime, Criminal justice system, Criminology, Drugs, Handsworth, Hartley Booth, Law & order, Margaret Thatcher, National Archives (UK), Northern Ireland, Police violence, Policing history, protest, Public order issues, Racial discrimination, Thatcherism

New archival documents reveal potential dangers of Thatcher’s advisers on policing and community relations issues
1985 riots, Archives, British ‘race relations’, British History, Britishness, Contemporary history, Enoch Powell, Fascism, Handsworth, Immigration, Margaret Thatcher, National Archives (UK), National Front, Public order issues, Racial discrimination, Racist violence, Right-wing extremism/radicalism, Right-wing populism, Thatcherism, Tories, UKIP

Enoch Powell and the immigration “challenge” to Thatcher (1985)
1981 riots, Announcements, Anti-racism, Archives, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, Contemporary history, Criminology, Handsworth, Law & order, Legislation, Margaret Thatcher, MI5, National Archives (UK), Police violence, Policing history, protest, Protest laws, Public order issues, Racial discrimination, Racist violence, Riots, Scarman Report, Security services (UK), Thatcherism, Tories

From the newly released NA papers: Thatcher, riots and the aftermath of Scarman in the early 1980s