Evan

Mainly songs from Different Class, three from His n Hers, one from This is Hardcore (from memory)

After 27.5 years, I have seen Pulp live again. Such a great show.

📖 Call for Papers 📖: Our project is hosting a workshop on 8-9 July at the University of Lincoln, UK for scholars working at the colonialism-migration governance intersection.

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Sorry, realised that PNG plantation manager was 57, not 60!

One thing that we found in our research is that there was one individual who sought to join the National Front of Australia (and donated a sum of money) who was a 60 yo plantation manager in Papua New Guinea. ASIO noted that he had previously been a donor to the Australian Nazi Party.

Other records suggest that ASIO had access to the PO Box for the NFA in Melbourne, as other mail was also intercepted and copied.

Looking for Australian historical studies which use submissions to inquiries as their source base

As we note in the article, plantation managers in PNG were wealthy and resistant to PNG’s independence from Australia in 1975, giving this individual the motive and means to join and donate to Australian far right groups.

One thing that we found in our research is that there was one individual who sought to join the National Front of Australia (and donated a sum of money) who was a 60 yo plantation manager in Papua New Guinea. ASIO noted that he had previously been a donor to the Australian Nazi Party.

Very happy with how this book review went. My first publication

Thanks Michelle, will have a read

Yes, I think so!

They made movies like ‘High Fidelity’, ‘Empire Records’ and ‘Clerks’ about video and record stores. Not as many about streaming.

I have found this, but looking for others.

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Looking for Australian historical studies which use submissions to inquiries as their source base

Drawing The Global Colour Line, Henry Reynolds and Marilyn Lake At last a history of Australia in its dynamic global context. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in response to the mobilisation and mobility of colonial and coloured peoples around the world, self-styled 'white men's countries' in South Africa, North America and Australasia worked in solidarity to exclude those peoples they defined as not-white--including Africans, Chinese, ...

‘Drawing The Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality’ by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds.

www.mup.com.au/books/drawin...

The real question is:

Which season of original Law and Order had the best cast?

For me, it is probably Season 6 with Rey Curtis, Jack McCoy, Lennie Briscoe and Claire Kincaid.

Dancer in the Dark. Had it on VHS or DVD (sorry, so long ago that I can’t remember) but never watched it after that first viewing in the cinema.

Yes. I would read volumes and volumes of Morning Star in there and then go to the only place to eat within walking distance for lunch. £3 meals at McDonald’s!

It was so cosy!

Next visit there was no photography of archival papers but I think by my third visit, 15 years later, they were allowing that too!

Then went to the Labour History Archive and Study Centre, when it was on Princess Street in Manchester, and met the loveliest, most helpful archivists. Got free range of the photocopier in the days before archival photography was common place!

From my first overseas research trip in my PhD days. With a letter of recommendation, the necessary ID and list of works to be consulted, I could only wrangle a temporary pass at first. Was told ‘this is not a public library’. Luckily I didn’t need the BL that much on that trip!

Labour History Review essay prize 2026 Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize for 2026. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026, and details are set out below. Download the entry form (Word document)…

Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026
(Please share widely)
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The Obscure Muppet of Desire

The Discreet Muppet of the Bourgeoisie

Un Muppet Andalou

The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social

Matthew L. McDowell reviews "The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s" by Thomas Adam

@anthempress.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social

Matthew L. McDowell reviews "The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s" by Thomas Adam

@anthempress.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi-clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, hi...

My article with @booklearning.bsky.social on using membership forms from the National Front of Australia to analyse the demographics of far right support in the 1970s-80s was published open access last week.

It has already had 200 reads!

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