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Continue reading →: The Enemy Above: Orgreave and the neoliberal police stateZoe Cussen explores the history of the 1984 Battle of Orgreave and its lasting repercussions on the nature of British policing. On the 15th of June, the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign and their supporters will take to Sheffield City Centre, demanding a long-overdue government inquiry into the brutal events…
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Continue reading →: ‘A woman’s place is on the miner’s picket lines!’Women Against Pit Closures: the local, the national and the ideological. ‘This strike wasn’t just a war fought on the battlegrounds of the picket line, Parliament and public opinion. It was as much a battle in the homes and families of those fighting for their communities’. This is how the…
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Continue reading →: ‘Keir Hardie’s cathedral was our quarry’The history of Mirfield’s socialist monastery You can see the towers when driving away from Huddersfield: the two coned brick turrets, level with the tree-line, of the Community of the Resurrection monastery high on the hill. I have travelled past this site several times a week for a number of…
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Continue reading →: Hull, Halifax, and HellThe eternal Yorkshire stubbornness, city living, and Victorian folk lessons for the 21st century world of work. Folk music is undeniably integral to the cultural history of Yorkshire. While the often informal and serpentine movement of folk music across time and space makes it hard to strictly regionalise English folk,…
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Continue reading →: West Riding to Republican SpainThe Leeds lads in the International Brigades In 1989 a small plaque was unveiled in the City Hall of Leeds, by the then newly-installed socialist Leader of the Council Jon Trickett. It read: ‘This memorial honours the men from Leeds who fought in the International Brigade with the Spanish People…
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Continue reading →: Trans Britain wasn’t built in a day!How Roman Yorkshire refutes Sunak’s gender normativity “A man is a man and a woman is a woman, that’s just common sense” – the poisonous, transphobic drivel of the UK’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the 2023 Tory Party Conference is yet another depressing marker of the war being waged…
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Continue reading →: ‘You cannot win a nuclear war!’: After Oppenheimer, try Threads.With the release of Oppenheimer in July, the nuclear bomb has taken its first tentative steps towards reconquering its share of the zeitgeist. While uncovering the torrid life of the father of the Bomb, Christopher Nolan has brought nuclear technology and its destructive power back into the collective imagination, albeit…
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Continue reading →: Miners, the Bomb, and obstructing neoliberalismThe story of the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire In 2023, local government in Yorkshire is in crisis. As Kirklees and Middlesborough Councils face potential bankruptcy, councils and devolved authorities across the county are feeling the strain of underfunding and stripped-back services amidst rising inflation. The promised benefits of devolution…
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