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Angry brigade
“You can’t reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it breaks.” — Angry Brigade, communiqué. Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used guns and bombs in a series of symbolic attacks against property. A series of communiqués accompanied the actions, explaining the choice of ta...
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Archive that, comrade!
Archive That, Comrade! explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate. It is informed by the author’s experience of writing a memoir about his involvement in the London underground...
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Born of struggle, living in hope
From the Spanish Civil War to postpunk London—this is the untold story of a legendary community space where anarchy meant action. For the first time, the tangled twelve-year history of the Centro Iberico is unraveled and laid bare—a story that begins in the trenches of antifascist resistance and ...
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British communism and the politics of race
A ground-breaking examination of how the Communist Party of Great Britain helped shape the anti-racist movement in the U.K.
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Burning britain
As the Seventies drew to a close and the media declared punk dead and buried, a whole new breed of band was emerging from the gutter. Harder and faster than their ’76–’77 predecessors, not to mention more aggressive and political, the likes of Discharge, the Exploited, and G.B.H. were to prove no...
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Closed doors, open minds
For some twenty years from the late 1960s, and thereafter following a brief pause, representatives of British Jewry’s religious orientations held closed-door meetings at the Chief Rabbi’s residence in attempts to bridge their communal and halachic differences. This volume explores their often fie...
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Day the country died
The Day the Country Died features author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper (Burning Britain) exploring in minute detail the influential, esoteric, UK anarcho punk scene of the early Eighties. If the colorful ’80s punk bands captured in Burning Britain were loud, political, and uncompromising, ...
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Democracy’s foot soldiers
A captivating history of the Afro-Caribbean soldiers who fought for the British Empire in World War I and their transnational campaign for equalityFollowing the outbreak of World War I, tens of thousands of men from the British Caribbean volunteered as soldiers to fight on behalf of the British E...
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Foundations
An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private...
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Good trouble
Good Trouble is the story of the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland – specifically, the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to Derry march through oral history.
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It's a london thing
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London’s precious, embattled multiculture.
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Rival civilisations
How British intellectuals of the twentieth century reckoned with the emergence of an Asian powerMost historians of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe point to the persistence of racialised and hierarchical views of non-Europeans as “uncivilised.” Yet these accounts overlook the profound inte...
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Social-imperialism in britain
In this important volume, Redfern rigorously examines the relationship between British labour and British capital during the two world wars of the twentieth century.
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The black book
The story of the heroic men and women that the Nazis singled out for death in their plan to invade Britain, including Noel Coward, Virginia Woolf and EM Forster. Mavericks and moral visionaries, their stories of courage are uncovered here for the first time. Oldfield sheds light and gives vivid ...
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The duty to stand aside
Two prominent frenemies agree on the duty of intellectuals in society, if little else.
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The fascist groove thing
This is the late 1970s and ’80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists.Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarmi...
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The land where nothing works
Tracing the origins of Britain’s current malaise to the abandonment of social democracyWhat has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint, weeds, and broken railings. Public services are no longer f...
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The maternalists
The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare ...
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The solidarity economy
The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empireAfter India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organizations. Utilizing existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, the n...
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This is a message to persons unknown
Flesh and blood are what we are, flesh and blood are who we are, our cover is blown … This Is a Message to Persons Unknown is the first full history of the legendary band Poison Girls. From their first gigs in Brighton in 1977 to years of DIY tours across Britain and Europe, the band forged a rad...
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Twilight of the dons
The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectualAfter World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridge—the dons—formed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often anti-establishment outsi...
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Waterloo sunrise
A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London foreverWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. ...
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Without permission
A young Jewish veteran of the United States Merchant Marine gets caught up in efforts to assist the new state of Israel, undergoes a challenging and dangerous sea voyage and is imprisoned for that effort, and is released and returns to build a bazooka plant in Haifa during the Israeli War for In...
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Yesterday
The first major account of this transformative period in the history of Great BritainBetween 1990 and 2020, the United Kingdom experienced tension between unparalleled social change and a pragmatic political culture which sought continuity, compromise and gradualism. Thatcher’s legacy was slowly ...
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