This Thursday, the country faces a choice. Five more years of chaos with the Tories, or turning the page and rebuilding Britain with my changed Labour Party. Change will only happen if you vote for it.

As Britain heads to the polls, Rebecca Goldsmith writes for Renewal on Labour, class and the politics of experience at the 1945 and 2024 general elections renewal.org.uk/lessons-from-1…

There is much about the 1945 election campaign that resonates today. As voters across Britain go to the polls, Rebecca Goldsmith traces the politics of class-based experience and feeling, an important but overlooked line of continuity between then and now 👇 x.com/RenewalJournal…

#OTD 1945. General Election. Britain heads to the polls nationally for the first time in a decade - as Attlee starts knocking up the vote in Limehouse 🗳️ But the country would have to wait three weeks for the result 👇🏼

Amazing to see Chelsea and Fulham turn red today, as it did in 1945. In this blogpost I draw on reports of Labour Party meetings in Fulham in 1945 to reflect on some of the resonances between Labour’s platform then, inflected with classed experience, and now.

I visited a lot of seats for LabourList this election, so here's a thread. I started in Chipping Barnet, and did the very first session of the election in the pouring rain. Dan Tomlinson MP is now the MP, having unseated Theresa Villiers: labourlist.org/2024/05/labour…

Reeves tells Treasury: "I will judge my time in office a success if I know that, at the end of it, there are working-class kids from ordinary backgrounds living richer lives, their horizons expanded, and their potential realised."

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Hugely enjoyed speaking to the wonderful Amelia Horgan about my ethnographic work in ex-industrial towns in the midlands. Pls forgive the ramble and enjoy the anecdotes:

Historians in Cambridge are all welcome to the public panel discussion tomorrow 12 July with the fab panel holly smith sundeep (@historysunny.bsky.social) Max Long @[email protected], on public history among historians of Britain. 2-4pm at Jesus College's Sibilla room.

Sign here to protest against Goldsmiths, University of London disgraceful attempt to make the convenor of their Black British History MA redundant. Again, a world-leading course, the first ever programme focusing exclusively on Black British histories — under threat. chng.it/Yjwsjp972V

"A new Great Reform Bill needs to be based around a clear principle – there should be no representation without taxation, and all those who pay tax should have a say in how we are governed." Jon Lawrence makes the case for a new Great Reform Act: renewal.org.uk/labour-should-…

#OTD 1945, the general election results were announced, with Labour winning in a landslide. For #HistParl's blog Rebecca Goldsmith (Rebecca Goldsmith) wrote about the use of Mass Observation during the election campaign and its insights for historians today. ow.ly/aoQk50SHYnR

My first ever book review is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Almost 6,000 people have signed up to our HOLD ON TO HOPE pledge. Dismayed at the scenes of violence across the country, thousands of people want to do something positive in their communities. JOIN THEM secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/152844/pe…

My first article, ‘“We’ve been left out”: women’s refuges in Northern Ireland, 1974-2008’, is out now in Modern British History. It’s a truly inspiring story and I’m grateful to everyone at Women's Aid NI who shared their time and memories. Cambridge History Camb British History academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance-a…

I have just published an academic article in Int Jrnl Pol,Cul&Soc !🎉 I present Raymond Aron's exile in London during WW2, when he exposed collaboration in real time. What's new: Aron likely inspired Jean-Paul Sartre's famous article "What is a Collaborator?" ⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.100…