@ThreeJacques

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.

The Crazy Madness of the Woman Who Started the Notting Hill Carnival

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From Sam Selvon's 1956 novel about Caribbean migrants in 1950s London: Galahad, newly arrived from Trinidad, is amazed to see a man pay for a newspaper at a stand where nobody is watching the money. From The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon (1956) #BlackHistoryMonth
Quote card: “He see a test come and take a newspaper and put down the money on a box—nobody there to watch the fellar and yet he put the money down. What sort of thing is that? Galahad wonder, they not afraid somebody thief the money?” — The Lonely Londoners (1956)

ALT Quote card: “He see a test come and take a newspaper and put down the money on a box—nobody there to watch the fellar and yet he put the money down. What sort of thing is that? Galahad wonder, they not afraid somebody thief the money?” — The Lonely Londoners (1956)

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A House in Bayswater, dir. Ken Russell (1960) A Bayswater house is being demolished, so its elderly tenant throws the crockery to jazz. Television used to be allowed to do this.
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Colonel Thomas Rainsborough of Parliament's New Model Army at the Putney Debates in 1647, during the English Civil War, arguing that the poorest man in England had as much right as the greatest to a say in how he was governed. Quoted by the historian E. P. Thompson. From The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson (1963)
Quote card: “For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he…” — The Making of the English Working Class (1963)

ALT Quote card: “For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he…” — The Making of the English Working Class (1963)

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From Rex and Moore, Race, Community and Conflict (1967)
Stat card: Sparkbrook, Birmingham council election 1963, votes cast with "House Britons not Blacks" on the walls: Labour candidate (won the seat) 3,610; Pakistani independent candidate 430; Mosleyite candidate (follower of the fascist Oswald Mosley) 68. Source: Rex & Moore, Race, Community and Conflict (1967), pp.202, 205.

ALT Stat card: Sparkbrook, Birmingham council election 1963, votes cast with "House Britons not Blacks" on the walls: Labour candidate (won the seat) 3,610; Pakistani independent candidate 430; Mosleyite candidate (follower of the fascist Oswald Mosley) 68. Source: Rex & Moore, Race, Community and Conflict (1967), pp.202, 205.

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THE GIPSY LADDIE John Kirkpatrick youtube.com/watch?v=PlBgVdvj…

The Gipsy Laddie

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Richard Hoggart, who grew up in working-class Leeds, in his 1957 classic about English working-class life, on neighbours who always knew, or thought they knew, everyone's business. From The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart (1957)
Quote card: “‘What will the neighbours think?’ Usually they think that two and two make six…” — The Uses of Literacy (1957)

ALT Quote card: “‘What will the neighbours think?’ Usually they think that two and two make six…” — The Uses of Literacy (1957)

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Historian Simon Ball on a 1922 agreement by Britain's Colonial Office and India Office that Indians in Kenya, then a British colony, should be able to settle freely and have the same political rights as European settlers. The settlers fought the plan off. From The Guardsmen by Simon Ball (2004) #MilitaryHistory #history
Quote card: “In the summer of 1922 the Colonial Office and the India Office agreed that Indians should be able to settle freely in Kenya and should enjoy equal political rights to the European settlers.” — The Guardsmen (2004)

ALT Quote card: “In the summer of 1922 the Colonial Office and the India Office agreed that Indians should be able to settle freely in Kenya and should enjoy equal political rights to the European settlers.” — The Guardsmen (2004)

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Daniel Finkelstein, the British journalist, in his family history, on a court case in Germany before Hitler took power, against antisemitic writing, under laws that banned attacks on any religion. His grandfather was involved in such trials. From Hitler Stalin Mum & Dad by Daniel Finkelstein (2023) #history #JewishHistory
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JOE HILL Billy Bragg (1989) #folkmusic #BillyBragg youtube.com/watch?v=Ellmj2KW…

Billy Bragg - Joe Hill (1989)

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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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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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NDubz went to Haverstock, so you know he's from the streets, or for the streets or something.
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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 youtube.com/watch?v=JyAUt5tZ…

The Trooper

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WAE'S ME FOR PRINCE CHARLIE Ewan MacColl (1961) #ScottishFolk #tradfolk youtube.com/watch?v=ErNgIjbb…

Wae's Me for Prince Charlie (From The Jacobite Rebellions)

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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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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)
Quote card from Coming to England by Floella Benjamin (1995)

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THE DOCKYARD GATE Sam Larner (1961) youtube.com/watch?v=leeWq_9d…

The Dockyard Gate

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Harold Macmillan, later Conservative Prime Minister, remembering 1940, when the Earl of Suffolk reached Britain after escaping the fall of France with a stash of industrial diamonds, some French scientists and 'heavy water', a rare material needed for atomic research. From The Blast of War 1939-45 by Harold Macmillan (1967)
Quote card: “He had also brought something called heavy water, and some French scientists…” — The Blast of War 1939-45 (1967)

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