New Historical Express

Category: Pop music

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
Pop music, Popular culture, Thatcherism, Uncategorized, Youth culture

When George and Andrew were part of the counter-hegemony against Thatcherism
Acid house, British History, Club culture, Contemporary history, Drugs, Electronic music, Gentrification, Hacienda, Law & order, Manchester, Neo-liberalism, Nighttime economy, Policing history, Pop music, Popular culture, Public order issues, Rave culture, Thatcherism, Youth culture

Policing club culture in the UK and the neoliberal city
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
Anti-racism, Archives, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, British Road to Socialism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Contemporary history, LGBT rights, Marxism, Pop music, Popular culture, Punk, The Leninist, Uncategorized, Young Communist League, Youth culture

‘Homosexuality and punk rock’: Conflicting social attitudes in the 1970s Young Communist League
24 Hour Party People, British History, Buzzcocks, Control, DIY, Joy Division, Manchester, Morrissey, Pop music, Popular culture, Popular memory, Punk, Sex Pistols, The Smiths, Youth culture

June 4, 1976: Sex Pistols play Manchester for the very first time…
academia, African National Congress, Anti-apartheid, Anti-racism, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Communist Party of Great Britain, Pop music, Popular culture, Popular memory, Riots, Rock Against Racism, South Africa, Television, The Young Ones, Youth culture

South Africa and anti-Apartheid in British popular culture before Mandela (1976-1983)
British far left, British History, Communist Party of Great Britain, Contemporary history, John Cooper Clarke, Manchester, Poetry, Pop music, Popular culture, Punk, Uncategorized, Young Communist League, Youth culture

Interview with John Cooper Clarke in Young Communist League’s Real Life (1983/84)