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The Broadway Bookshop is delighted to announce that Daniel Rachel will be appearing at the shop on Wednesday 7 December to read and talk about his new book Walls Come Tumbling Down (published by Picador). Daniel’s remarkable oral history – which brilliantly captures the mood on the streets of British cities before and after the epoch-changing rise of Rock Against Racism – will be introduced by writer Ken Worpole, who remembers when Hackney’s streets were on the front line.

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Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
The mood on the streets of British cities before and after the epoch-changing rise of Rock Against Racism.
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"For months, historians of the twentieth century have been looking nervously at Trump and asking what tools we have to understand the man, his popular appeal and his backers – and to measure the danger he represents." Jane Caplan explores the meaning and history of fascism, arguing that we need to understand it in order to remain vigilant in the future, and to identify points of risk and resistance.

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Trump and Fascism. A View from the Past
Fascism is not just the big bang of mass rallies and extreme violence; it is also the creeping fog that incrementally occupies power while obscuring its motives.
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On Friday 18th of November, LGBTQI+ activists and historians will pop up in 10 iconic London spots to highlight the importance of queer history and demand that London gets a LGBTQI+ museum. In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967, the coalition are demanding a permanent home.

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Queer Filing Cabinets to take over the streets of London
There is both precedent and demand for a queer museum. Make it happen!
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Memoirs are a history from inside – like memories, they appear plural, unreliable, random, and potentially interminable. In her lecture, Alison Light will talk about some of the challenges and pleasures of writing a memoir of her marriage to the social historian, Raphael Samuel.

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Between Private and Public: Writing a Memoir about Raphael and Myself
The Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2016 commemorates the twentieth anniversary of Raphael’s death with a lecture by his widow, the writer Alison Light.
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"El Otro [The Other] told homosexual men and women that they were not criminals, nor were they evil. They were victims of an oppressive system ... And, if this system was to be destroyed, ... They needed to communicate, they needed to debate and, most important of all, they needed to organize." Today on History Workshop, Felipe Caro on the Colombian gay liberation publication El Otro, and its founder Leon Zuleta.

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El Otro: A Homosexual Liberation Paper from Colombia
Homosexuals needed to communicate, they needed to debate and, most important of all, they needed to organize.
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"Gareth Stedman Jones’s new biography of Karl Marx is a remarkable work of intellectual history and critical analysis. Rooting Marx within his nineteenth-century political and cultural context, Stedman Jones brilliantly draws out Marx’s contributions as economic historian, radical polemicist, and political actor – as well as husband, son, father and friend."

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‘Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion’: Tristram Hunt in conversation with Gareth Stedman Jones
Tristram Hunt in conversation with Gareth Stedman Jones about his new biography – Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion.
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"We have to rethink history. We have to question it and change paradigms to make our national history more inclusive." Bisila Noha reflects on the continuing need for Black History Month, and especially stories of black women, at History Workshop.

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Black HERstory Month: Where did all the black women in history go?
We have to rethink history. We have to question it and change paradigms to make our national history more inclusive.
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The Russian Revolution was not only one of the most critical events of the twentieth century in its own right but an inspirational event across the ‘black Atlantic’ as a blow against racism and imperialism.

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The Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic
CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 14-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary of the Russian Revol…
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QUEER AND THE STATE
The targeting and surveillance of LGBTQ+ spaces

DATE: Saturday 19 November 2016, 13:00-17:30
LOCATION: The National Archives, Kew

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Welcome to the Caravan Club!

The National Archives and London Metropolitan Archives are teaming up with professional set designer Dave Benson to recreate ‘London’s Greatest Bohemian Rendezvous’ – the Caravan Club. With an exciting array of performances, you will get to experience the thrill and atmosphere of the 1930s, and learn about the underground venues that played host to Britain’s LGBTQ+ communities in the early 20th century.

In addition to this amazing experience, you will also have the chance to delve into an astonishing collection of archival documents which explore the historical state targeting and surveillance of LGBTQ+ spaces. Records include illicit love letters, undercover police reports and newly released oral testimony.

You will also get to hear from and be part of the discussion with a variety of fascinating speakers who will look at not only the cultural importance of LGBTQ+ venues – but also the enduring resilience of a community under siege from discrimination.

Performances by:
The Bee’s Knees – professional dance group specialising in Charleston, authentic jazz and eccentric dances from the 1920s-1940s
Timberlina - informal, informative and hilarious performance that challenges the status quo around accepted norms of LGBTQ+ narratives

Please note, this event is only suitable for guests aged 16+.

Book your free tickets now https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-and-the-state-tickets-…

Can’t make the Saturday?
A second event will be held at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) on Thursday 24th November – 18:00 – 21:00.

Please note, performances are not the same as at The National Archives.
Book for LMA’s event at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-human-festival-queer-a…

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Queer and the State
CREATIVE WORKSHOP The National Archives and London Metropolitan Archives invite 16-25 year olds to join a creative workshop with a focus on the targeting and surveillance of LGBTQ+ clubs and meeting places by the government. This event - run as part of the national Being Human Festival - will combin...
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Vera Mackie reflects on the radical potential of the pacifist handkerchief. Digging into her collection of similar items collected in Japan, Mackie excavates stories of activism, feminism, political change and the significance of gift giving.

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The Pacifist Handkerchief
The pacifist handkerchief invites reflections on contested memories in modern Japanese history.
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'Through the Smoke of Budapest': sixty years ago exactly, the final issue appeared of 'The Reasoner', the "dissident" publication within the Communist Party of Great Britain. It carried a remarkable piece of politically engaged writing - E.P. Thompson's impassioned article about the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian uprising.

'Stalinism has sown the wind,' the article opened, 'and now the whirlwind centres on Hungary. As I write the smoke is still rising above Budapest.'

It...

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Today on History Workshop, Justin Bengry weighs in on the 'gay pardon' question before the UK Parliament. According to Bengry, the most important issue is not whether or not a pardon is extended to the dead, but why the Conservative government explicitly refuses to allow so many living men opportunities to clear their names.

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Conservative ‘Gay Pardon’ for the dead is a strategic distraction that harms the living
Rather than righting the wrongs of the past, the pardon exploits LGBTQ issues and people, a perverse outcome of the Conservative government’s ongoing attempt to appear progressive, inclusive, and L…
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Conference Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Lucas Plan

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Conference at the 40th anniversary of the Lucas Plan
The Lukas Plan, produced by workers at the Lucas Aerospace arms company, showed how jobs could be saved by converting to make products that answer a social need, rather than weapons.
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HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENT SEMINAR SERIES:

The History of Labour and its Environmental Implications

30 November 2016, starts at 7.30 pm. ...
Marx Memorial Library, Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DU

‘The Generalisation of Wage Labour, and the Changing Relationship with the Land in Early Modern England’, George Yerby, author of The English Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change (Routledge 2016)

‘Capitalism, the Use of Labour, and the Environmental Context’, Martin Empson, author of Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History (Bookmarks 2015)

‘Urbanisation, Industrialisation, and their Impact on Labour Militancy’, Neil Davidson, author of Nation-States, Consciousness and Competition (2016)

Chair: Carrie Hamilton (Roehampton)

All welcome. No booking necessary.

Contact: George Yerby: george.yerby@googlemail.com or Neil Davidson: neil.davidson@glasgow.ac.uk

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Professor Matt Cook's inaugural lecture

In this lecture marking World AIDS Day 2016, Prof. Cook traces the emotional landscape of Britain at a key turning point in the history of AIDS.

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‘Archives of Feeling’: the AIDS crisis in Britain, c.1987
In this lecture marking World AIDS Day 2016, Prof. Cook traces the emotional landscape of Britain at a key turning point in the history of AIDS.
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