New Historical Express

Category: Popular memory

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, 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
Announcements, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Great Britain, Contemporary history, Daily Worker/Morning Star, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, Popular memory, The Leninist, Trotskyism

The British left and immigration: Weekly Worker cites Hatful of History blog
Announcements, British History, Contemporary history, Film, Film and history, Media appearances, Papers/Seminars, Popular culture, Popular memory, Public service announcements, Punk, Television, Thatcherism, The Young Ones, Youth culture

The Conversation (UK) On Rik Mayall, The Young Ones and Thatcher
British History, Film, Film and history, Popular culture, Popular memory, Punk, Television, Thatcherism, The Young Ones, Youth culture

In tribute to Rik Mayall: The Young Ones, Thatcherism and the People’s Poet
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)
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’