On Wednesday 15 April I was privileged to appear in parliament as an expert witness at the parliamentary joint committee…
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Historical Association webinar, ‘the power of maps’
I’ve just given one of the webinars for the Historical Association’s short course series, ‘The Power of Maps’. The audience…
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BBC History Extra podcast
This week I recorded an episode for the BBC History Extra Podcast on the history of protest. Danny Bird was…
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BBC Radio 4 great lives
I’m on BBC Radio 4, Great Lives, discussing the Luddite movement as part of Alex von Tunzelmann’s choice of General…
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select bibliography on new social movements, urban commons, and anti-globalisation protest
Urban commons Anti-globalisation/environmental/anti-war protests Sources Operation Solstice documentary: https://youtu.be/rdztgEB5SlI Reclaim the Streets film: https://archive.org/details/ngv_lo_en_20041101_reclaim_the_streets_the_film Do or Die magazine issues 1-10:…
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The Cuckoo Cage at Womad 2022
This year at Womad festival, I was privileged to chair a panel of authors from Comma Press’s collection, The Cuckoo…
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Public Order law and space
A quick summary here of the development of public order law in relation to space and protest and the freedom…
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continuities of ‘social crime’ protest about land use
James Greenhalgh’s book, Reconstructing Modernity: space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities (Manchester UP, 2017) is a thought-provoking…