Contemporary British History
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Contemporary British History offers innovative new research on British society, culture, politics, foreign policy, and the economy in the recent past.
Joined April 2018
We're excited to see one of our SCGH members @SAhistoryMatt latest article on anti-apartheid activism in Wales published in @CBHJournal. The article argues for a multi-layered and nationally distinct analysis of activism grounded in a Welsh context https://t.co/sQSa4DWgc4
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This article enhances our understanding of how national considerations shaped and bounded forms of transnational activism. The existing anti-apartheid scholarship acknowledges that activist respons...
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As the Chancellor is set to unveil the long-awaited budget, I am excited to share my @CBHJournal article on the emergence of the modern Budget Day in the 1920s:
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Between 1924 and 1929, Churchill presided over the Treasury as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Historians have long examined the consequences of the chancellorship, often centred on tax policy or the ...
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Read the article, 'Chancellor Churchill: the Treasury, party politics and the reinvention of Budget Day, 1924–1929' by Robert Yee, our David Richards Junior Research Fellow in Economic History, in Contemporary British History: https://t.co/G4uGqXDGZU
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‘No status – no census!’ The causes and consequences of the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts Read @BhamPOLSIS Dr @laurence_cooley's article in @CBHJournal ⬇️ https://t.co/g6jAMV0ln7
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Despite Northern Ireland having been established on the basis of statistics from the 1911 census and the centrality of religious demography to many accounts of its conflict, little has been written...
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Why is Scotland so anti-nuclear? A new study by @ewangibbs and @linda83ross unpacks this ongoing topic. In @CBHJournal, they show how planning policies have been used to block the power - despite the rest of the UK utilizing it. 1/2 https://t.co/mAaO6wyg5Z
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In case you missed it, my latest article has been published in the new issue of @CBHJournal It documents the links between the Br Conservative Party & Scandi Conservatives, as well as their roles in forming the European Democrat Union with Christian Dems:
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This article explores the links between the British and Scandinavian Conservative parties in Europe between the late-1940s and the late-1970s. Its findings show that these parties were closer to ea...
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Delighted to see my new article 'The politicisation of the CFSP in the British domestic debate on Brexit: a challenge to EU-UK foreign and security cooperation' is now out in Contemporary British History @CBHJournal 50 free copies:
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The aim of this paper is to study the evolution of Britain’s involvement in the EU’s foreign and security policy in order to highlight the reasons that led the issue to be left out of talks on the ...
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Pleased to publish my latest article 'The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-78' Open Access with @CBHJournal
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This article explores the links between the British and Scandinavian Conservative parties in Europe between the late-1940s and the late-1970s. Its findings show that these parties were closer to ea...
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So excited my article on the group 'Women Against the Common Market' is now out in @CBHJournal. Led by left-wing Labour MP Anne Kerr, WACM staged a variety of bold/outlandish stunts, which got them deported from France, to stop Ted Heath. Free to read! https://t.co/dAPseTOyLd
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This article explores women’s activism in the early 1970s through the organisation ‘Women Against the Common Market’ (WACM), founded by the former left-wing Labour MP Anne Kerr. WACM carved out a d...
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New analysis explores the evolution of the UK's 'tampon tax' policies 🩸 📜Based on 25 years of parliamentary debates, EU directives and more Read about the politics that led to its abolition 👇🏽 https://t.co/l9P1vSR4Sz
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Very pleased to see my article (open access!) has been published in the latest print issue of @CBHJournal !
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Volume 37, Issue 2 of Contemporary British History
Delighted to share that my first peer-reviewed article is out with @CBHJournal ! It charts the history of the Grassroots Alliance and how the Labour left changed its strategy and rhetoric in opposition to New Labour in the 90s and 2000s. https://t.co/eSSwnrksOu (dm for access)
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Delighted to share that my first peer-reviewed article is out with @CBHJournal ! It charts the history of the Grassroots Alliance and how the Labour left changed its strategy and rhetoric in opposition to New Labour in the 90s and 2000s. https://t.co/eSSwnrksOu (dm for access)
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In October 1998, Tony Blair suffered an embarrassing electoral defeat when four activists from the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) were elected to the Labour Party’s National Executive Commi...
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Excited to share a new article with @KarlDewey1 in @CBHJournal - exploring the one of the most intriguing political assassinations of the Cold War: that of Georgi Markov, allegedly with a ricin-tipped poison umbrella, on Waterloo Bridge in London in 1978. https://t.co/OncGlO3iUA
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Margaret Thatcher famously backed Augusto Pinochet until the end. What's less known is that, under the Labour Party, Britain interfered in Chile's elections in an effort to prevent Salvador Allende from gaining power. My article in @cbhjournal: https://t.co/cF5yI2DCIa
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On 11 September 1973, a military coup was successfully launched against Chilean President Salvador Allende. British-made Hawker Hunter jets were used to attack the Chilean presidential palace, and ...
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