ACFM: Trip 32: Myth
Keir, Nadia and Jeremy consider the stories we just can't shake, from Oedipus to Brexit.
Tag: history
Novara FM: Liberty, Democracy, Piracy
Did the Enlightenment begin at sea? Eleanor Penny talks to historian-from-below Marcus Rediker.
Downstream: Everything We Think We Know About Human History Is Wrong | Downstream With David Wengrow
Humans have existed for at least 200,000 years. Yet until recently, historians believed that cities, astronomy, architecture and numeracy did not arrive until agriculture emerged some 12,000 years ago. But what if that was wrong? What if cities existed before agriculture and our hunter gatherer ancestors enjoyed a far more complex existence than we thought? […]
Opinion: Keir Starmer’s Betrayal of Workers is Nothing New for Labour
by Jodie Collins
Revisionist history has the public dreaming of a time when the Labour party stood up for organised labour. It’s a myth.
Analysis: How State-Sanctioned Multiculturalism Killed Radical Anti-Racism in Britain
by Ilyas Nagdee & Azfar Shafi
The 1980s saw grassroots solidarity-building supplanted by milquetoast representation politics, write Azfar Shafi and Ilyas Nadgee in this extract from their new book.
Feature: The ‘Colston 4’ Won by Invoking History – And Using It to Build a Strong Legal Defence
by Priyanka Raval
Since the Colston 4 were found not guilty last week, the right has sought to claim their win was ideological - an assault on the rule of law. This is simply not the case, writes Priyanka Raval: the group’s legal defence was robust.
Novara FM: History, Humanity, Heresy
Archaeologist David Wengrow upends everything we thought we knew about social evolution in a new book written with David Graeber.
The Bastani Factor: Operation Legacy: How the British Elite Re-Wrote World History
Conservatives are obsessed with the idea that the left wants to erase Britain’s history. Yet that’s precisely what happened when its empire collapsed after 1945, as re-writing the past became a matter of state policy executed on an industrial scale. Here Aaron Bastani explains what was called ‘Operation Legacy’ and how those who care about […]
Novara FM: Riots and the Red Flag
#ACFM's Keir Milburn offers a bloody and boisterous workers' history of Leeds.
Novara FM: From War to Constitution—and the Problem of England
Linda Colley takes James Butler through the age of war and revolution which gave birth to the modern constitution – and peers into England's political future.
Feature: The Little-Known History of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass is More Relevant Now Than Ever
by Sophie K Rosa
In April 1932, hundreds of workers marched on private land in the peak district. As the Tories push ahead with their draconian new police bill, the Kinder Scout protest is a lesson in how to resist harsh new trespass laws – and a reminder of why we must.
Novara FM: After Storming Heaven
James Butler is joined by Laura Forster to trace the many red threads of the Paris Commune, which began 150 years ago this week.
Opinion: The Tories Think Decolonising the Curriculum Means Censorship. They Couldn’t Be More Wrong
by Ali Meghji
Decolonisation isn't "taking bits out" of history, as one minister put it. It's filling in the gaps, writes sociology lecturer and curriculum decoloniser Ali Meghji.
The Bastani Factor: The World According to the Economist with Alexander Zevin
Since 1843, The Economist has been the single most devoted and influential champion of liberalism anywhere in the world. But what exactly is liberalism, and what does the output of the Economist tell us about it?
The Bastani Factor: Aaron Bastani Reacts to David Starkey’s Mask Off Moment
David Starkey’s appearance on Darren Grimes’s Youtube channel revealed the unashamed racism of Britain’s most prominent conservative historian.
Opinion: No, Britain Hasn’t Been a ‘Force for Good’ in the World
by Aaron Bastani
Last week at a protest in Poole in defence of a statue, a woman held a sign that read ‘British history matters’. Aaron Bastani argues she's right - and it’s about time we started teaching it.
The Bastani Factor: Victims of Anti-Communism with Vincent Bevins
Aaron Bastani interviews author of 'Jakarta Method', Vincent Bevins, to examine the historic legacy of anti-communism, and the murder programs done in its name.
The Bastani Factor: Victims of Anti-Communism With Vincent Bevins
The historic sins of communism and fascism are well documented. Often ignored, however, is murder and violence done in the name of anti-communism, and how this underpinned new forms of empire during the Cold War. Aaron Bastani interviews author of ‘Jakarta Method’, Vincent Bevins, to examine the historic legacy of anti-communism, and the murder programs […]