Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2177638
Simón C. Smith
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Pub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2174975
Alfie Steer
ABSTRACT 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 Committee. Despite Blair’s attempts to ‘modernise’ the Labour Party and abandon the ideological baggage of ‘Old Labour’, the election demonstrated the continued electoral competitiveness of the Labour Left among the party membership, and hostility towards New Labour’s trajectory. This article explores the CLGA’s foundation and electoral success as an illustrative case study of how the Labour Left altered its political strategy and rhetoric in the New Labour years. This helps to fill a significant gap in the existing literature, where organised dissent to New Labour has often been overlooked. The CLGA saw the Labour Left form broad cross-factional alliances previously thought impossible, as well as oversee a shift in rhetoric from criticising to passionately defending post-war social democracy and the political culture of ‘labourism’. Alongside the changing political strategies deployed by the Labour Left after the 1980s, this article also demonstrates how New Labour’s iconoclasm and the creation of the pejorative label of ‘Old Labour’ had the unintended consequences of erasing complex factional divides among opponents and facilitating a cross-factional activist opposition.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-10DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2167077
Adam Evans
ABSTRACT 2024 marks twenty-five years since the first elections to, and meeting of, the National Assembly for Wales. The Assembly had been established by the narrowest of margins at a referendum in 1997. However, supporters of devolution would have no honeymoon period. Instead, the period from Autumn 1998 to February 2000 marked what might almost be seen as a long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution. This was a period of political instability, weak leadership and partisan infighting, all of which threatened the credibility of an already vulnerable devolution project. This article outlines how this saga began with the resignation of Ron Davies as Secretary of State for Wales in 1998 and only ended when Alun Michael, Davies’s successor as Welsh Labour leader and the first First Secretary of Wales, was forced out of office. This paper uses recently released archival materials to add new detail to this story, demonstrating the extent to which the UK Government orchestrated Michael’s rise to power, the clear sense of buyer’s remorse Michael’s backers would go on to experience and the frenzied discussions that went on within Whitehall during his beleaguered tenure as First Secretary.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2160707
Daniel Salisbury, Karl Dewey
ABSTRACT In 1978, Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov was murdered on Waterloo Bridge by an unknown assassin. The brazen attack in central London, Markov’s public profile and the alleged use of an exotic spy gadget (a poison umbrella) made the murder one of the Cold War’s most infamous cases of political assassination. However, despite wide-spread suspicions the case formally remains open, with the British government taking only limited actions against Bulgaria, the presumed culprit. This article draws on recently declassified archival materials from the United Kingdom to provide the first historical account focusing on the British dimensions of the case. The article discusses Markov’s journey to London, his murder and the British government’s response. It argues that the limited response to Markov’s murder largely followed uncertainty regarding the identity of the assassin and culpability of the Bulgarian state, as well as the political climate in the twilight years of détente. In contrast, British authorities responded tentatively to the attack on Litvinenko in 2006 and much more decisively to the attack on Skripal in 2018. This was due to the step change in the information environment providing more actionable intelligence and increasing unwillingness to accept Russian belligerence on UK soil.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2211016
Hannah J Elizabeth
In 1994, the Birmingham based lesbian health activism group LesBeWell began to produce a newsletter titled Dykenosis. Variously describing itself as 'for women who have sex with women', 'health information for dykes' and 'the national bi-monthly newsletter about lesbian health', the newsletter offers a window into how one activist group imagined the health and ill health of women who had sex with women in the 1990s. By analysing Dykenosis, this article illuminates how LesBeWell identified and attempted to eliminate social and institutional obstacles to 'dyke' health. The article focuses on Dykenosis' collation of experiences of invisibility and hypervisibility within Britain's National Health Service, and the mobilisation of research, complaint, and community self-help within its pages and beyond as remedy to NHS shortcomings.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-29DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2145953
M. Moulton
{"title":"Cooperative rule: community development in Britain’s late empire","authors":"M. Moulton","doi":"10.1080/13619462.2022.2145953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2145953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45519,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary British History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45816954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-25DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2145954
Dan O'Neill
{"title":"The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945","authors":"Dan O'Neill","doi":"10.1080/13619462.2022.2145954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2145954","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45519,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary British History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46918797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2142780
E. Smith
ABSTRACT In recent years, one of the most controversial stories on the British left is the trajectory of the far left Trotskyist group, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) to the libertarian/contrarian online publication Spiked!, via the magazine Living Marxism. The evolution of the RCP into Spiked! has been explored somewhat by journalists, but it has yet to be explored in depth by historians. This paper argues that in the history of the RCP, The Red Front is an often overlooked turning point for the party towards rejection of conventional left thinking in the 1990s and eventual rejection of Marxist politics.
{"title":"A Platform for Working Class Unity? The Revolutionary Communist Party’s The Red Front and the pre-history of Living Marxism/Spiked Online in the 1980s","authors":"E. Smith","doi":"10.1080/13619462.2022.2142780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2142780","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years, one of the most controversial stories on the British left is the trajectory of the far left Trotskyist group, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) to the libertarian/contrarian online publication Spiked!, via the magazine Living Marxism. The evolution of the RCP into Spiked! has been explored somewhat by journalists, but it has yet to be explored in depth by historians. This paper argues that in the history of the RCP, The Red Front is an often overlooked turning point for the party towards rejection of conventional left thinking in the 1990s and eventual rejection of Marxist politics.","PeriodicalId":45519,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary British History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48233762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2141716
Sina Fabian
Published in Contemporary British History (Ahead of Print, 2022)
发表于《当代英国历史》(印刷前，2022年)
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2138348
B. Jackson
{"title":"Scottish Nationalism: History, Ideology and the Question of Independence","authors":"B. Jackson","doi":"10.1080/13619462.2022.2138348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2138348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45519,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary British History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44946689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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