New Historical Express

Category: Tories

Margaret Thatcher, moral panics, Thatcherism, Tories

Culture wars and moral panics in the history of Thatcherism
Announcements, Margaret Thatcher, moral panics, Public service announcements, Thatcherism, Tories

Guardian piece on the ‘war on woke’ and the ‘loony left’
Margaret Thatcher, Punk, Red Wedge, Thatcherism, The Smiths, Tories, Uncategorized, Youth culture

Briefing Margaret Thatcher on punk and pop music (1987)
Conservatives, Elections, Harold Wilson, labour history, Tories, UK Labour Party, Uncategorized

‘Who Governs Britain?’: The last time the Tories called a snap election…
1989, Archives, British History, Conservatives, Criminology, crowd control, Football, Hillsborough, Hooliganism, Law & order, Margaret Thatcher, Policing history, Public Order Act, Public order issues, Thatcherism, Tories, Uncategorized

Policing football crowds and the aftermath of Hillsborough: What the new Thatcher papers reveal, pt 2
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
1968, anti-fascism, Anti-racism, British ‘race relations’, British far left, Communist Party of Great Britain, Conservatives, Enoch Powell, Fascism, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, National Front, Powellism, Racial discrimination, Racist violence, Right-wing extremism/radicalism, Right-wing populism, Tories

Powellism and the advent of the British far right: The Communist Party response
anti-fascism, Anti-racism, British ‘race relations’, British far left, British History, British Union of Fascists, Communist Party of Great Britain, Criminal justice system, Daily Worker/Morning Star, Fenner Brockway, Harold Wilson, Legislation, Marxism Today, Public Order Act, Public order issues, Race Relations Act, Racial discrimination, Tories, Trade unions, TUC, Union Movement

The Communist Party’s campaign for the Race Relations Act 1965