New Historical Express

Category: John Major

Acid house, British History, Club culture, Deindustrialisation, DIY, Drugs, Electronic music, John Major, Law & order, LGBT rights, Margaret Thatcher, North/South divide, Pop music, Popular culture, protest, Protest laws, Public order issues, Rave culture, Tories, Youth culture, Zine history, Zines

Thinking historically about acid house & early rave culture: The soundtrack to late Thatcherism
Asylum, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Criminology, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Government inquiries, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, John Major, New Labour, Tories, UK Labour Party, UKBA

Defining and demonising asylum: A brief history of UK refugee discourses
British History, Film, Film and history, John Major, Men Behaving Badly, Popular culture, Television, Thatcherism, Tories, Unemployment, W-O-R-K

What can Men Behaving Badly teach us about post-Thatcherite Britain? A guest post by Lauren Piko