New Historical Express

Category: Home Office

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
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
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
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?