Jack Hughes

Mostly reading books around the issue of national decline, cultural rot, loss of traditions and the British Old New Left, while unpicking Whig history.

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The Jason Ardley-like backstory of the woman who created the Notting Hill Carnival. https://t.co/oMtwxrNE4G

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@GordonDComstock The two Nigel Barton things are fantastic. I got them with the idea of looking into the 1964 election, and maybe writing an essay on it. You get a depiction of the bigoted woman thinking the Labour candidate is going to send the West Indians home that Bowden mentions.

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Stand Up, Nigel Barton, by Dennis Potter, dir. Gareth Davies (1965)
"One says UP to Oxford." "Does bloody Oxford move up and down the bloody mountain?" The class system in one argument about prepositions.

#DennisPotter #ClassicTV

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@AngloLombard Meet in the middle and call them swarthy?

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Ed Miliband, then leader of the Labour Party, quoted in a 2011 biography on how Haverstock, his comprehensive school in Camden, north London, taught him to get on with white working-class East Enders.

From Ed: The Milibands by Mehdi Hasan (2011)

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Are you sure...? From what I've been able to discover, the idea of a postwar labour shortage being the cause of Windrush, "you asked we came" and "jobs English people wouldn't do" didn't really start to come in until the 70s, once the race relations bureaucracy had begun to get going and contrary voices shut out. You get the odd Punjabi claiming they were doing jobs the English wouldn't to sociologists in the late 50s/early 60s, but that wasn't part of any national story about what was happening until much later.

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NDubz went to Haverstock, so you know he's from the streets, or for the streets or something.

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@baylissbaghdad @Cheetoignocnito @sammysangel There was a push after Blair got in in 97 for the 50th anniversary. That's when the idea of "the Windrush Generation" comes from, though back then it just meant the people on the original voyage.

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@Aliathewhite @copyright4001 The British Nationality Act came in months after the Windrush and other ships bringing West Indians docked. It has nothing to do with West Indian migration and didn't enable them to come. The Home Office call the idea that the Act opened the door "a myth".

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@MorgothsReview Isn't it odd how, when it's some kind of half a billion pound national infrastructure project, concerns about the impact on voles being able to get a good nights sleep become an impossible regulatory obstacle. With migrants, an objection from three Popes would be insufficient.

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Michael Newman, biographer of Ralph Miliband, the Marxist political thinker and father of the Labour politicians David and Ed Miliband, on how Ralph, decades later, described the Jewish immigrant family he grew up in.

From Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left by Michael Newman (2002)

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THE TROOPER
Bob Copper (1977)
#tradfolk
https://t.co/VzregAr9gv

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WAE'S ME FOR PRINCE CHARLIE
Ewan MacColl (1961)
#ScottishFolk #tradfolk
https://t.co/8dW1gD3YM1

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@cranialillusion @janeyellene Yes, it's not bad. I had some in Verona.

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It was only changed to mean all of them quite recently. When the Windrush Foundation made it up just before the 50th anniversary, it only meant the passangers on the original voyage. It wasn't until the 70th anniversay in 2018 that that the definition was expanded to include all the West Indians who came in that period. Now people are trying to expand it again to include all the non-white postwar migrants

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@janeyellene That was during a wartime craze for French cooking.

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From Nicholas Deakin's study of race and the 1964 general election in Britain, summing up one survey of British attitudes to 'coloured' immigrants.

From Colour and the British Electorate 1964 by Nicholas Deakin (1965)

#history

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Variations on a Mechanical Theme, dir. Ken Russell (1959)
The Industrial Revolution reached its climax, the BBC informs us, when the Queen accepted a musical bustle, 'most cunningly and patriotically contrived'. Steam power, the Empire, and this.

#KenRussell

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@infinitehorus Doubtless. All stuff I'm looking into ;-)

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Floella Benjamin, the Trinidad-born children's TV presenter who came to England as a girl in 1960, remembering the stories told back home about life in England, the kind of stories that drew many Caribbean migrants to Britain.

From Coming to England by Floella Benjamin (1995)

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@infinitehorus I've never been fond of that piece. It works if you already believe, but it's pretty much just find the Jew, so if you don't believe it's unconvincing. the Indian stuff is even more obscure.

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@GordonDComstock The right face at the right time.