I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period
How did a protest by a group of women from a Christian anarchist movement inspire a 1960s American folk song?
Victoria Peretitskaya explores the song's radical origins:
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Trying to do it all in one chapter and regretting it.
Chap 4 of the book I'm currently working on is on the National Front. There's still so little historical research on the NF! There's contemporary journalism & sociology/political science stuff or stuff on anti-fascism but little on a movement that loomed large in the politics of race in 70s Britain.
Got a new article out today in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's about the ways in which the music press constructed race in late 20c Britain. Open access so do share it around!
Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @uniofreading.bsky.social for supporting the research.
doi.org/10.1017/jbr....
Nice to see that they've taken the flags down; I was there in October and the city centre was covered right up to and around the outside of the Cathedral.
This image shows the title and abstract for a new journal article by Benjamin Bland, published in the Journal of British Studies. Title: "“I Am Not Anti Black Music But …”: Popular Music, the NME, and Race in Late Twentieth-Century Britain". Abstract:"Popular music culture has often featured in postwar British history as a site of tolerance and inclusivity, of multicultural exchange and anti-racist activism. This article, while not denying music's intersections with progressive causes, presents a different narrative. I use the pages of Britain's most prominent weekly music paper, the New Musical Express (NME), to demonstrate the important role that music has played in perpetuating wider processes of racialization in the late twentieth century. Surveying contestations over race in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, it highlights the ways in which popular music institutions such as the NME could function as sites of racial formation, reproducing the social power of whiteness even when providing space for what was often referred to as “black music.” The article underlines the degree to which popular music could produce hegemonically white cultural spaces, despite the diversity of musical culture at large. In so doing, it indicates the significance of popular culture for understanding patterns of racialization into the latter years of the twentieth century and beyond."
This is a fascinating looking paper by @benjamin-bland.bsky.social, on processes of racialisation in the popular culture of late C20th Britain.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
VACANCY - we are looking for a new early modern British colleague to join us at Warwick! Thematic focus open, with interests in religious change and/or social relations particularly welcome. Full details at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
One can detest Maduro and Khamenei and still think a state taking it upon itself to kidnap or assassinate rival leaders outside an actual declaration of war is a horrendous precedent, especially when it’s done by states led by people who are equally vile.
*there’ll
I did a little complain about it here: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article... and here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... And they’ll be more in my book (eventually).
I don’t but @aurelmondon.com does!
I’ll say it again: Matthew Goodwin is, to an extent, the product of an academic field that is dedicated to the study of racists but routinely refuses to seriously or deeply engage with other academic work on race.
Easington then, Easington now: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MATTHEW BADLOSS IS IT
screenshot of GB News interview with Matt Goodwin with banner "Green Party Wins By-Election"
*deep breath* a hahah ahHahahahahHAhahahhahhhaaaaaaaaaheeheeeeee heehehe
We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Hi Mike, happy to share my notes if you DM me an email address.
A journey time still possible if you're travelling by East Midlands Rail.
This is today for people in London. Come here me talk about the politics of immigration officers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Tickets free and only a few remaining...
I remember; it’s also been pretty popular with British fascists since before UDI in 1965.
This kid was also rocking the flag of Rhodesia on his bedroom wall.
If it's any further incentive the title of my talk is: 'Meet the Institutional Racists: Immigration Officers and Powellite Solidarity, 1968-1976'.
Last day for 25% discount on paperback pre-order tomorrow
www.waterstones.com/book/the-tru...
The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939
this would be a dream PhD for one lucky individual...
Questions I found myself asking while reading this piece this morning. Also don't know how places like this escape toward hope; practitioners of the politics of ethno-cultural resentment ('We are poor because the blacks are here', as Stuart Hall put it) aren't just wayward potential socialists.
What is striking is that this becomes *incredibly obvious* if you look back at why people sympathised with fascism when it first emerged in the 1920s and 1930s.
Might start using this post in my email signature.
