Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977
April 2020
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Book
The republic besieged? British banks and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39
March 2017
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Chapter
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Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century Banking: Exploring the History and Archives of Banking at Times of Political and Social Stress
‘Loyal believers and disloyal sceptics’: Propaganda and dissent in Britain during the Korean War, 1950-53
December 2016
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Journal article
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History
<p>On 10 December 1951 the Labour MP Richard Crossman went to see Benjamin Britten’s new opera Billy Budd, which had just opened at Covent Garden. It was, he noted in his diary, "oddly topical ... Billy Budd is really pure, brave and loyal, but it is the war against the French Revolution, and he comes on board shouting “Rights of Man”! ...moreover he is deeply moved by the merciless treatment of the lower deck by the upper deck. Benjamin Britten is a Socialist, and I am not sure this isn’t all about loyalty and the Cold War."</p> <br/> <p>Crossman’s comment was apposite for, as the Cold War intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the loyalties of British diplomats, journalists, politicians, trade unionists and scientists were being questioned as never before. The unmasking of the ‘atom spies’ Alan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs was followed by the defection of Bruno Pontecorvo, a naturalised British scientist, to the Soviet Union in August 1950. Even more perplexing was the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in May 1951, although the fiction that the fate of the ‘missing diplomats’ was unknown was maintained for some time. The vetting and purging of civil servants had already been introduced in 1948, in response to fears that Communists’ ‘divided loyalty ... might in certain contingencies become active disloyalty’. Such concerns extended far beyond the civil service. The Labour Party General Secretary Morgan Phillips kept a file on the so-called ‘Lost Sheep’ (Labour MPs who were secret members of the Communist Party), and George Orwell’s listing of alleged crypto-Communists and fellow travellers, for the benefit of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD), suggested that British public life was riddled with political and personal corruption. Crossman himself, in his foreword to The God that Failed, an influential collection of essays by former Communists, presented the Cold War as a quasireligious struggle for the ‘souls’ of intellectuals. As Anne Deighton has recently written, the Cold War was conceived as ‘a war of ideas, of loyalty to beliefs’. </p>
‘The dark millions in the colonies are unavenged’: Anti-fascism and anti-imperialism in the 1930s
October 2016
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Journal article
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Contemporary European History
The quotation in this title expresses a dilemma, as the ‘dark millions’ were likely to remain ‘unavenged’ so long as authors were asked to take sides on the Spanish Civil War rather than colonial oppression. Indeed, anti-fascism might well be thought of as, in a sense, antithetical to anti-imperialism. This article explores the relationship between anti-fascism and anti-imperialism, focusing on Britain and France. The first part looks at anti-imperialism in the era of the Popular Front; the second looks at how the tensions between anti-fascism and anti-imperialism were played out in the case of the major conflicts of the later 1930s in Abyssinia, Spain and China; the third discusses the imperialist assumptions of many anti-fascists. The article concludes by looking at the early phase of the Second World War.
Ideology, Idealism, and Adventure: Narratives of the British Volunteers in the International Brigades
July 2016
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Journal article
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Labour History Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Beyond Cable Street: New approaches to the history of anti-fascism in Britain in the 1930s
January 2016
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Chapter
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Rethinking antifascism : history, memory and political uses, 1922 to the present
THE BALKAN WARS AFTER 100 YEARS
January 2015
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Chapter
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War in the Balkans: Conflict and Diplomacy before World War I
WAR IN THE BALKANS: Conflict and Diplomacy before World War I
January 2015
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Edited book
The history of the Balkans incorporates all the major historical themes of the 20th Century--the rise of nationalism, communism and fascism, state-sponsored genocide and urban warfare. Focusing on the centuries opening decades, War in the Balkans seeks to shed new light on the Balkan Wars through approaching each regional and ethnic conflict as a separate actor, before placing them in a wider context. Although top-down 'Great Powers' historiography is often used to describe the beginnings of the World War I, not enough attention has been paid to the events in the region in the years preceding the Archduke Ferdinand's assassination. The Balkan Wars saw the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the end of the Bulgarian Kingdom (then one of the most powerful military countries in the region), an unprecedented hardening of Serbian nationalism, the swallowing up of Slovenes, Croats and Slovaks in a larger Balkan entity, and thus set in place the pattern of border realignments which would become familiar for much of the twentieth century.
China and the British left in the twentieth century: transnational perspectives
December 2013
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Journal article
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Labor History
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 3505 Human Resources and Industrial Relations, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
'Shanghai-Madrid Axis'? Comparing British responces to the conflicts in Spain and China. 1936-1939
September 2012
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Journal article
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Contemporary European History
East wind: China and the British left, 1925-1976
January 2012
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Book
Human rights, the memory of war and the making of a 'European' identity, 1945-1975
December 2010
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Chapter
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Europeanization in the Twentieth Century
History
Human Rights, the Memory of War and the Making of a ‘European’ Identity, 1945–75
January 2010
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Chapter
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Europeanization in the Twentieth Century
48 Law and Legal Studies, 4807 Public Law, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Review: Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, William Heinemann: London, 2005; xv + 878 pp.; 9781594200656, £25.00 (hbk)
October 2009
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Journal article
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European History Quarterly
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Hasta que punto era 'diferente' Espana? el segundo Franquismo en el contexto iternatcional
September 2009
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Chapter
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España en cambio. El segundo franquismo, 1959-1975
History
Human rights campaigns in modern Britain
May 2009
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Chapter
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NGOs in contemporary Britain
History
Spain Transformed
January 2007
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Chapter
Edge of Darkness: British ‘Front-line’ Diplomacy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1937
August 2003
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Journal article
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Contemporary European History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
The Lost Art of Felicia Browne
October 2002
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Journal article
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History Workshop Journal
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
`The Truth Will Set You Free': The Making of Amnesty International
October 2002
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Conference paper
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Journal of Contemporary History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Three Lives of Homage to Catalonia
September 2002
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Journal article
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The Library
46 Information and Computing Sciences, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4610 Library and Information Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
Anti-fascism and Democracy in the 1930s
January 2002
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Journal article
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European History Quarterly
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
The politics of democracy in twentieth-century Europe: Introduction
January 2002
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Journal article
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European History Quarterly
The courage of Galileo: Joseph Needham and the "germ warfare" allegations in the Korean War.
January 2001
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Journal article
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History (Historical Association (Great Britain))
Chemical Warfare Agents, Biochemistry, Research, Government Agencies, Biological Warfare, Chemical Warfare, History, 20th Century, United States, China, Korea, Biological Warfare Agents, Warfare, United Kingdom
THE DEATH OF BOB SMILLIE: A REPLY
December 2000
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Journal article
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The Historical Journal
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SHORTER NOTICES
February 1998
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
THE DEATH OF BOB SMILLIE, THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, AND THE ECLIPSE OF THE INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY
June 1997
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Journal article
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The Historical Journal
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SHORTER NOTICES
September 1996
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
‘A Far Away Country of Which We Know Nothing’?Perceptions of Spain and its Civil War in Britain,1931–1939
January 1993
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Journal article
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Twentieth Century British History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Divided Loyalties: the Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain's Civil Service Trade Unions, 1936–9
February 1992
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Journal article
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Historical Research
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
National Identity, State Formation and Patriotism: the Role of History in the Public Mind
March 1990
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Journal article
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History Workshop Journal
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
The Role of the British Labour Movement in the Origins and Work of the Basque Children's Committee, 1937-9
April 1988
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Journal article
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European History Quarterly
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology