New Historical Express

Category: Scarman Report

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
1981 riots, Anti-racism, Bristol, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Communist Party of Great Britain, Contemporary history, Criminology, Law & order, Marxism, Marxism Today, Police violence, Policing history, Profiling, protest, Protest laws, Public order issues, Racial discrimination, Racist violence, Riots, Scarman Report, Southall, Southall 1979, Stuart Hall, Thatcherism, Tories, Uncategorized, Young Communist League, Youth culture

The Communist Party and the 1981 riots
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
1981 riots, 2011 riots, Anti-racism, British ‘race relations’, British History, Contemporary history, Criminology, Government inquiries, Macpherson Report, Policing history, Profiling, Public order issues, Racial discrimination, Scarman Report, Stephen Lawrence, Stuart Hall

From Scarman to Macpherson to Ellison
Announcements, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Commission for Racial Equality, Contemporary history, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, Profiling, Scarman Report, Thatcherism, The Guardian, Tories, UKBA, Virginity testing

New article at The Conversation (UK): Who will prevent a race to the bottom by UK Border Agency?
1981 riots, 2011 riots, academia, Announcements, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, Contemporary history, Criminology, Government inquiries, Journal announcements, Neo-liberalism, Papers/Seminars, Policing history, Public order issues, Racist violence, Scarman Report, Thatcherism, Tories, UK Labour Party, Youth culture

“Reading the Riot Act”: New special issue of Journal for Cultural Research on UK 2011 Riots available now
1981 riots, Anti-apartheid, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, Contemporary history, Film, Film and history, Policing history, Public order issues, Punk, Scarman Report, Thatcherism, The Young Ones, Tories, Youth culture

What can The Young Ones teach us about Thatcherism, part two: ‘Race’ and the Police in the 1980s
1981 riots, academia, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, CND, Contemporary history, Falklands, Film, Film and history, Policing history, Pop music, Punk, Racist violence, Scarman Report, Thatcherism, The Young Ones, UK Labour Party, Youth culture

What can The Young Ones teach us about Thatcherism? part one