New Historical Express

Category: Historical methods

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
academia, bloggy stuff, Higher Edcuation, Historical methods, Historiography, Internetz, Research, writing

Turning that blog post into a journal article: A quick guide
Archives, Comintern, Digital humanities, Historical methods, International communist movement, Public service announcements, Research, Soviet history, Soviet Union

How to navigate the Comintern archives online: A guide for the non-Russian speaker
academia, Historical methods, Historiography, history from below, labour history, Research, Research suggestions

Are labour historians still doing labour history?
Announcements, British History, Contemporary history, Film, Film and history, Historical methods, Historiography, Journal announcements, Popular culture, Punk, Television, Thatcherism, The Young Ones, Youth culture

New article: Thatcherism and The Young Ones
academia, Archives, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Commission for Racial Equality, Contemporary history, Criminology, Empire, Hillsborough, Historical methods, Historiography, Immigration, National Archives (UK), Policing history, Popular memory, Racial discrimination, Research, Research suggestions, Security services (UK), Tories, UKBA, Virginity testing, Women’s history, Women’s liberation

Deny, normalise and obfuscate: The Home Office in the 1980s and the abuse of South Asian women
Blackadder, British History, Britishness, Deleuze, Film, Film and history, First World War, Historical methods, Historiography, Modern European History, Nationalism, Popular culture, Popular memory, The Guardian, Tories

Mr Gove, film can never replicate historical ‘truth’
Archives, Chris Marker, Contemporary history, Control, Deleuze, Film, Film and history, Historical methods, Historiography, Joy Division, Rashomon, Research, Sans Soleil, Television

Why studying film helped me become a better historian