Historians interested in Euroscepticism go and check out our project blog! Lots of interesting contributions as well as something by me on the Maastricht Judicial Review europeresist.hypotheses.org

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“Does anyone seriously believe that Beatles music will be an unthinkingly accepted part of daily life all over the world in the 2000s?” Bryan Magee, philosopher and politician, article in The Listener, February 1967

‘Voting for or against Maastricht was an abstract gesture that we almost forgot to perform’ - Annie Ernaux, the years

the limits of a strictly materialist analysis of politics captured in two short paragraphs theguardian.com/world/article/…

An entire generation’s creativity stifled under the Tories. A decimation of arts and culture, and a narrowing of possibilities for bright and curious working class kids. So much unforgivable damage done by this cabal of incompetents, but today I am thinking of this.

The students of the MA Black British History (past & present) have come together to launch a petition to SAVE the course and it's staff. The loss of the MA would be a collective loss for us ALL - sign the petition today chng.it/gpR6WD2LNg Dr Hannah Elias Dr Kesewa John Goldsmiths UCU

“I’ll leave myself empty the whole day.” I interviewed families impacted by the two-child benefit cap. Anti-poverty groups say scrapping it would lift 300,000 children out of poverty. In today’s King’s Speech, Labour chose not to abolish the cap. theguardian.com/society/articl…

Margaret Thatcher in 1993, calling John Major's administration a "Vichy government". Proper jaw-on-the-floor moment, from David Lawton's excellent new article on the judicial review of the Maastricht Treaty, led by the Eurosceptic William Rees-Mogg. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

We are looking for a PhD candidate! 3 year, fully-funded position on "A New Era of EU Enlargement: Populism and Public Opinion". Position is based at Aston University and the candidate will spend some time at Jacques Delors Centre, where they will work with me: findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.