(Formerly Hatful of History)
I am excited to announce that the hardback edition of our edited volume, In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956 has been published by Manchester University Press. You can order it here. The hardback edition is quite pricey so please recommend it to your library. If you do want a copy of [ ]
An on-going research interest of mine is on the demographics of the far right in Australia and Britain. Below is an excerpt from a literature review discussion from a longer paper. There are a small number of studies that have attempted to examine the socio-economic demographics of the far right in Australia and Britain across [ ]
As part of my growing interest in digital archives, as well as my interest in Southern Africa during the Cold War and decolonisation, I have been undertaking a project to scan various publications produced in this region which are increasingly difficult to find. Previous endeavours have included scanning copies of ZAPU s Zimbabwe Review from the [ ]
A break from radio silence to announce that our new edited volume, In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956, is now available for pre-order from Manchester University Press. The hardback is a bit expensive (the book will apparently be 500 pages long), but an affordable paperback will be available in 2026-27. Please [ ]
A few weeks ago, the database publisher Gale organised an online symposium on the archives of social movements called Power to the People . I took part with a talk on online radical archives. You can view the video below:
The controversial South African figure Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi has passed away. Buthelezi made a brief appearance in my book No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech when there were protests against him debating a representative of the South African government at the Oxford Union in 1985. With this in [ ]
Just a quick announcement that Jacobin has published a piece by me on the history of the Revolutionary Communist Party between the 1970s and 1990s. While it is framed by the trajectory from the RCP to Spiked, the article primarily focuses on the left-wing period of the RCP and then the beginnings of the rightwards [ ]
Apologies for the radio silence on the blog. I should mention that since anti-trans campaigner Posie Parker had food and drink lobbed at her in New Zealand, there has been interest in my research on the history of throwing food at public figures as a form of protest. Firstly, The Conversation published this piece by [ ]
As it is LGBT+ History Month in the UK this month, I thought I d share a short story of protest against homophobia in Britain in the 1980s by students at Swansea University. This story can be found in my book No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech. When the [ ]
Over the holiday break, our book, Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia, was published. Last week there were two bits of media coverage relating to the book. The first was an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Peter Hartcher on the history of Australian fascism, including a few quotes from me. The second [ ]