Wonderful evening last night celebrating the great Sheila Rowbotham’s new book on her life and activism in the 1980s. A must read for anyone interested in recovering the inspiring radical politics of an era too often defined by Thatcherite hegemony. ✊️✊️
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Forty years ago Brenda Prince was one of four women photographers commissioned to do an exhibition titled Striking Women. Made up of more than 40 large black and white panels, it was shown at the P…
Very pleased to hear the third volume of “The British Far Left since 1956”, edited by @evansmithhist.bsky.social and Dan Frost has been submitted to the publishers. Here is the title and write up of my contribution to it. Can’t wait to see it finally out!
It’s that time again folks! If anyone is at party conference on Friday eve and fancies grabbing a pint let me know. 🍺
A letter from Ken Livingstone: “I am only too pleased to send you a photograph - I hope it is not for a dart board!”
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Today marks the anniversary of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act receiving royal assent. But why was this bill necessary 26 years after the passing of the 1807 Slave Trade Act, and why was full emancipat...
Labour’s NEC elections over the years have been a useful bellwether of the mood within the party. Less than 18 months into the last Labour govt the elections registered a swing to the left and discontent with the iconoclasm of New Labour. Me in CBH👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In October 1998, Tony Blair suffered an embarrassing electoral defeat when four activists from the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) were elected to the Labour Party’s National Executive Commi...
The rush I got logging back on here to see how many followers I had got in the great migration. Woof.
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