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Tag Archives: London history
For a few days in May: Surbiton and the General Strike of 1926
In May, 1926, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) called a General Strike in Britain and, for about nine days (from 3rd-12th May), it appeared to many people that the country’s industrial relations had reached a new low-point. The Armed Forces … Continue reading
Posted in British history, British politics, Gender History, Kingston, Local History, London history, Media history, Public History, Research, Surbiton, Surrey, Uncategorized, Women's history
Tagged British history, history, Kingston, Local History, London history, Public History, Surbiton, Surrey, Women
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Radicalism in Richmond-on-Thames: The influence of the Left Book Club of the 1930s
Back in 2018-2019, using a variety of sources, I conducted some research into the local impact of the famous Left Book Club (LBC) of the 1930s, focusing in particular on the town of Richmond-on-Thames in the outer suburbs of London. … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-fascism, Archives, British history, British politics, Local History, London history, Public History, Research, Richmond history, Secret State, Surbiton, Surrey, Teaching, The National Archives, Uncategorized
Tagged British history, Kingston, Local History, London history, Public History, Richmond, Secret State, Surbiton
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Women Against the Female Vote: The anti-Suffragists in Chiswick in South-West London
Back in 2014-2015 I spent some time in the archives investigating a still relatively under-researched aspect of women’s history, the anti-Suffrage groups that had emerged in Edwardian Britain. How did this come about? My general research on British history had … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, British Empire, British history, Gender History, Local History, London history, Media history, Public History, Research, Richmond history, Surrey, Uncategorized, Women's history
Tagged Archives, British history, civic engagement, Local History, London history, Public History, Research, Richmond, teaching, Women
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Decadence and Decline: Looking back on the gloomy world of Dean Inge
There has been some interesting coverage on social media in recent months of the views of William Ralph Inge (1860-1954), who was known as the ‘Gloomy Dean’ or the ‘Gloomy Philosopher’, and was Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in London … Continue reading
Posted in British history, British politics, European History, Extremism, Fascism, History of war, London history, Media history, Nazism, Public History, Research, Uncategorized, World History
Tagged Archives, British history, history, London history, Public History, teaching, World History
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A New Vision: The foundation of a branch of the League of Nations Union in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey
There are times in history when the global will very much influence the local, and during the interwar period Kingston-on-Thames in Surrey, England, saw a burst of activity from a local lobby group, the League of Nations Union (LNU), which … Continue reading
Posted in American history, British history, European History, History of war, Kingston, Local History, London history, Media history, Public History, Research, Surrey, Uncategorized, World History
Tagged British history, First World War, Kingston, Local History, London history, Research, Surrey, World History
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Kingston-on-Thames’s War Memorial: A brief history
In November, 2023, the main war memorial in Kingston-on-Thames in Surrey will be 100 years old, and will again be a key feature of Remembrance Sunday, which falls this year on Sunday, 12th November. Remembrance Sunday, created in the UK … Continue reading
Mobilising women in the 1920s: The case of Mrs. Peel and the British Housewives Association
Accusations of ‘profiteering’ by retailers and business traders became a regular and controversial theme on the Home Front in Britain during the Great War, when rationing made it a near daily challenge for many mothers and housewives to feed their … Continue reading
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Tagged Archives, British history, civic engagement, First World War, history, Local History, London history, Media history, Public History, Women
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Doom and Decline: The gloomy world of Dean Inge
There has been some interesting coverage on social media in recent days of the views of William Ralph Inge (1860-1954), who was known as the ‘Gloomy Dean’ or the ‘Gloomy Philosopher’, and was Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in London … Continue reading
Lawrence of Arabia in Surbiton and the first ‘multi-media’ show
Many people with an interest in British imperial history are familiar with the life and wartime career of T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935), mainly through the famous epic feature film Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The smash-hit and critically acclaimed movie starred the late … Continue reading
Posted in American history, British Empire, British history, History of war, Kingston, Local History, London history, Media history, Middle East, Public History, Research, Surbiton, Surrey, Uncategorized, World History
Tagged British history, Film, History of war, Kingston, Local History, London history, Middle East, Surbiton, Surrey, World History, World War One
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Under a ‘Rain of Bombs’: How the Dunkirk evacuation was reported in Kingston-on-Thames
On 26th May, 1940, the new Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, ordered the implementation of ‘Operation Dynamo’, a plan to save the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). This led to what one war correspondent called at the time the ‘miracle’ of Dunkirk, … Continue reading
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Tagged history, Kingston, Local History, London history, Memory, Public History, Research, Surrey, teaching, World War Two, WWII
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