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The Domino Revolutions: 1848, 1989, 2011
The successive overthrow of apparently well established governments in Tunisia, Egypt and then Libya prompts the question: how do revolutions spread? Kevin Adamson and Mike Rapport of the School of History and Politics at the University of Stirling compare years of ‘domino’ revolutions.
The Nation, Our Libraries and Archives – and the Cuts
Discussion of a History Workshop Journal feature on ‘Coalition Cuts’, threats to archives and their repositories, urging academics, in particular, to champion libraries and archives within their own institutions
Greece: History Repeating Itself?
As Greece suffers economic austerity and sharp public spending cuts, the historian Violetta Hionidou looks at worrying echoes of the country’s wartime experience of extreme deprivation
Breaking the Silence
The shared experiences of people born to refugee parents from Nazism, the ‘second generation’, as seen through a series of interviews by the author, Merilyn Moos, with children of parents who fled from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
Radical Objects: Stuff the Jubilee Badge
This anti-monarchy badge was produced and widely distributed in 1977 by the Socialist Workers Party as part of their ‘Stuff the Jubilee’ campaign.
Bollywood & Revolutionary Bengal: Revisiting the Chittagong Uprising (1930-34)
Madhu Singh, associate professor at the University of Lucknow in northern India, explores the anti-colonial episode of the Chittagong Uprising (1930-34) which Bollywood has recently brought back into the spotlight.
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