Ticket for the inaugural meeting of the Birmingham Area Civil Rights Campaign.
Photograph from the Birmingham Post, 6 May 1968, captioned 'A grim struggle for the police as they link arms to hold back the large crowd of demonstrators in Victoria Square, Birmingham, yesterday during the Prime Minister's visit'. The most visible placard says 'Would you let your daughter marry Enoch Powell'.
Letter sent to newspaper editors in August 1968 by the Birmingham Committee of the International Year for Human Rights. It deplores "the recent recommendations of the Birmingham City Council that all immigration into the city should be stopped, and we affirm that this policy is both morally wrong, and unworkable in practise. We remind the Council that the prosperity of this great city has been built on a long tradition of welcoming immigrants of all races. ... The proud motto of Birmingham is "Forward". Let the Council abandon its present backward-looking policy, and go forward to lead the nation in creating a society in which all races can work together in harmony."
Circular issued by the Birmingham Area Civil Rights Campaign Steering Group in 1968. It identifies four main fields of activity for the newly formed Birmingham Area Civil Rights Campaign: education, research, community action and political activity.
In 1968, against the backdrop of the Race Relations Act and Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech, local Birmingham groups campaigned against racism and in support of civil rights
The archives of activist Margaret Stanton capture some of the grassroots activities mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/MSP/...
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Very excited launch of #Saothar50 is today π₯³ π₯³. Looking forward to attending later as part of #DublinFestivalHistory & being in fab company of @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @sonjatiernan.bsky.social @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social @helenbeaumont.bsky.social. Hope to get quick ππββοΈ in as well π₯Ά. β€οΈDublin.
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I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.
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βOut of sight and out of mind?β: British Perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement
Delighted to be on the @ihr.bsky.social / @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social seminar programme for this autumn!
Come and hear me talk about my work on Britain and the NI Civil Rights Movement on 20th November. Or join online via Teams.
More details here π
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Volume 33, Issue 2
A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2
Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond
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βOut of sight and out of mind?β: British Perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement
Delighted to be on the @ihr.bsky.social / @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social seminar programme for this autumn!
Come and hear me talk about my work on Britain and the NI Civil Rights Movement on 20th November. Or join online via Teams.
More details here π
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Classism aside...Scotland is famously a country that has never produced any literature. Just football. Apparently.
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Presumably, votes at 16 will add a further level of unpredictability into the mix for 2029.
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A clear and authoritative rebuttal from @alanlester.bsky.social here, that's worth reading for anyone working on subjects that might become fodder for dubious public commentary...
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Something I see often in defenders of "AI" in the classroom (especially those who discuss "responsible" uses) is that, in using LLMs and then "critiquing" its output, we can then teach students to become more AI literate.
This irks me to no end.
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Richard J. Evans Β· Alien to the Community: Eugenics in Germany
In Hitlerβs mind, eugenics was part of Germanyβs long-term preparation for victory in the struggle between races....
βAs hereditarian thinking began to spread across the medical profession in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, anxieties emerged about the βfeeble-mindedβ passing on their βdefectsβ to future generations.β
Richard J. Evans on German eugenics before and after Nazism
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The broadsheet commentariat continue to be the most toxic and least accountable section of the body politic. Theyβre just paid to tell vicious lies with absolutely no personal consequences, ever.
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HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025
A reminder that this @historylabplus.bsky.social event is coming up @qubhistory.bsky.social on Thursday 25 September. If you know any final year History PhDs, recent PhD graduates, or postdocs who want to join us in Belfast, please spread the word!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.
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Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing
Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandiβs Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires
The daughters of Hermann GΓΆring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.
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Members of my family were tortured and killed in the Holocaust because countries like Britain said it wasn't their problem. Everyone said never again. And here we are. It's sickening beyond belief.
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think that if "we must debate the fascists not no-platform them!" is your view then we have probably reached the stage, globally, where you may wish to wonder if your preferred way of doing things is actually working
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Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters.
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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The long battle for equality: Northern Irelandβs LGBTQ+ history
The Ulster Museum is taking significant steps to integrate LGBTQ+ history into its broader historical exhibits
The 2nd Lurgan Pride is tomorow. A relatively small town, it experienced a 1950s show trial so bad it shocked homophile activists in Britain. That event is now forgotten but we should think about the long ramifications of the virulently homophobic postwar years. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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Proper Channels
How did Atlantic slavery end? Diana Paton argues that erasing the Haitian Revolution preserves the fiction that Britain is and was a progressive outlier in relation to race and racism
OTD 1791, the Haitian Revolution began. By 1793, slavery had been abolished in this French colonial island.
From 2020, after the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol, Diana Paton on why slavery was more often abolished through violence than reform:
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Front page of 'Parliamentary Activism? Northern Irish Civil Rights and the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster' in TRHS, by Patrick Thompson.
New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society':
'Parliamentary Activism? Northern Irish Civil Rights and the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster', by Patrick Thompson bit.ly/4mnLv6Y
Patrick's article charts the role of the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster in relations with Westminster, 1/2
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