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Two plastic balls linked by a skinny rope caused the most ridiculous moral panic at at the start of the...
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The 1970s was a bumper decade for every kind of cult. Terrorists, violent extremists, fringe religions, etc. By the end...
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Plenty of people know about planes being hijacked by terrorist groups in the 1970s but few remember the spate of...
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We worry today about various kinds of extreme Right activity - especially online. The impact it has on young people....
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On a Facebook page for my old school, somebody posted a picture of one side of the old school gym....
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I was at school with the son of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) boss Len Murray and together with a...
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When some of your earliest memories are watching the Apollo rockets launching into space and astronauts walking on the moon...
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Pictured here are my membership cards for the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS) and the Labour Party Young Socialists...
In the 1970s and early 1980s, the National Front and British Movement attempted to recruit school age children across the...
Digging up this 1970s National Front manifesto from my archives, I was struck how far to the right mainstream political...
