Report & audio from this one-day conference which examined issues of history, identity and citizenship across an increasingly divergent, multi-national UK state.
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The Thatcher-Botha Papers
Martin Plaut on the newly-released documents at the National Archive at Kew that reveal that Mrs Thatcher did not waver in her opposition to South Africa’s white supremacist leader P.W Botha’s racial policies
Radical Objects: Photo of Mewa Singh’s Funeral Procession 1915
Melanie Hardbattle on a discovery from the history of Asian immigration into Canada, made in the Special Collections and Rare Books department at Simon Fraser University Library
Theatre Review: ‘Drawing the Line’
Howard Brenton’s new play examines the last act of British rule in India, the dissection of the country in 1947 to create the independent nations of India and Pakistan.
‘Reflections on Jacoby and All That’: An Unpublished Essay by E. P. Thompson
A previously unpublished paper written by E P Thompson in 1987, and presented at the History and Society Program of the University of Minnesota during the 1987-1988 academic year.
Radical Objects: A Menu for Change – The South African Deputation to London, 1909
Radical Objects: A menu of a meal at the House of Commons in London in 1909, hosted by the Labour Party leader James Keir Hardie, with Labour MPs and a South African deputation led by W. P. Schreiner
History Workshop Journal Issue 76
Information about the recently-released issue 76 of the History Workshop Journal