Edward Higgs discusses the problem of identifying the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, and the ways immigrants and citizens are made known to the state.
Historians’ Watch
Jennings’ Buildings and Grenfell Tower: Housing the Poor in Kensington, Then and Now
Jennifer Davis finds historical precedent for the tragedy at Grenfell Tower in Victorian era Kensington’s Jennings’ Buildings.
Brexit in Context: Reflections on the History of Referenda
Gareth Stedman Jones reflects on the history of referenda, and the ways they can be used to bring about unconstitutional or unscrupulous changes in government.
Europe’s far right: the new normal?
Rather than treat the far-right as an exceptional political movement, we should see it as a logical outcome of the transformed political landscape of post-Cold War Europe.
A Queer and Present Danger (and a Past One)
A recent campaign against Safe Schools, an anti-LGBTI bullying program operating in Australian primary and secondary schools, has generated a remarkable, and remarkably successful, mobilisation by homophobic defenders of ‘traditional’ values.
Executive Order: Trump playing the ‘nation’ card
Exclusion has, in fact, been central to the configuration of political power in the US and in other white settler states.
Autocracy in America won’t come with jackboots
Stephen Heathorn explores what the rise of the far right, authoritarianism and fascism looks like in the 21st century, as opposed to the 1930s.
