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Book Review: ‘Searching for Lord Haw-Haw’ by Colin Holmes
Anti-colonialism, Anti-communism, ASIO, Australian Labor Party, British Commonwealth, British far left, British History, Britishness, Canada, Colonial Office, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party of South Africa, Communist Party of the USA, Decolonisation, Embassies and diplomatic staff, Empire, Espionage, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Harold Laski, International communist movement, MI5, National Archives (UK), National Archives of Australia, New Zealand, Papers/Seminars, Political violence, Research, Rhodesia, Security services (UK), South Africa, South African Communist Party, Southern Rhodesian Communist Party, The Guardian (CPSA), Tories, Trade unions, UK Labour Party, US history, US Left, Western Intervention, Young Communist League

Policing Communism Across the British Empire: A Transnational Study
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
1956, Announcements, Archives, British far left, British History, Communist Party of Great Britain, Daily Worker/Morning Star, Eric Hobsbawm, Historians’ Group of the CPGB, International communist movement, John Gollan, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, MI5, National Archives (UK), New Left, Research, Security services (UK)

The CPGB response to the New Statesman letter and the Historians’ Group: From the newly released MI5 files on Hobsbawm

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Book Review: ‘Searching for Lord Haw-Haw’ by Colin Holmes

Policing Communism Across the British Empire: A Transnational Study

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

The CPGB response to the New Statesman letter and the Historians’ Group: From the newly released MI5 files on Hobsbawm