Posts tagged: history

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  The Second British Revolution

  In the years leading up to World War I, Britain was rocked by an unprecedented upsurge of labor militancy. As James Robins writes, as millions went on strike across the country, was this Britain's lost revolution?

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  Cat and Mouse: The Copernican Inversion Outside Work

  The history of monetary scams – from the coin clipping shown in the recent BBC drama The Gallow’s Pole, to the Spanish Anarchist and bricklayer who forged millions of travellers cheques in the 1960s and 1970s – shows how workers' resistance is still key to capitalist development.
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  Talking shit

  What links Karl Marx, William S. Burroughs, Dalit struggles in India and the Yetties' famous Muckspreader Song? Ed Emery writes on the centrality of excrement, both metaphorical and literal, to the modern world.
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  The Black Atlantic at 30

  Published 30 years ago this year, Paul Gilroy's seminal book The Black Atlantic profoundly shaped how we understand race and culture in contemporary society.
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  Choose your side. Choose your weapons

  Published 20 years after the 1984-85 miners' strike that it portrays, David Peace's kaleidoscopic novel GB84 depicted the affective realities of the struggle as it was fought by pickets, policemen. Alexander Curtis asks what the literature can teach us about the past and present of class war.
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  Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’

  The Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg discusses the historical method of microhistory, of which he is an eminent representative, and some themes and concepts of his work.

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  A Political Education

  Alexander Baron, the writer, political activist, journalist, soldier, and prominent figure in mid-twentieth-century British cultural history, is best remembered today as the author of the novels The Human Kind (1953), The Lowlife (1963), and King Dido (1969). In this extract from his recently published memoir Chapters of Accidents, introduced by his son Nick Baron, he recounts his political education in interwar East London.
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  On the Churchill Front in the Culture Wars

  Historian John Newsinger responds to Simon Heffer and Andrew Robert's review of Tariq Ali’s powerful new demolition of the Churchill myth, Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes.

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  Potential Prehistory

  Historian of science Lukas Rieppel considers the connections between geology, prehistory, and imperialism, as part of the "Unlearning Imperialism" Verso roundtable.

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  Towards a Radical Practice of History: When Can History Repair?

  Historian Vazira Zamindar asks if history has the disciplinary tools to practice repair, part of the Verso roundtable "Unlearning Imperialism" considering the work of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

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  Unlearning Imperialism: A Verso Roundtable

  A Verso roundtable on Ariella Aïsha Azoulay's Potential History, discussing imperial knowledge, history, art, the possibility of repairing devastated worlds, and above all: what can a radical practice of history look like?

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  Race, Racism, and Racecraft

  Racecraft is not a euphemistic substitute for racism. It is a kind of fingerprint evidence that racism has been on the scene.