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December 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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This is what I'm working on next: fascism and the environment. Hoping to finish it before the world burns and/or the fascists take charge. Fingers crossed. Do ask me about it, if you're curious. www.thebookseller.com/rights/manch...
Manchester University Press signs Richard Smyth’s ‘vital’ book on fascism and the environment
Manchester University Press has acquired Richard Smyth’s Greenshirts, a new book that uncovers the "deep, often obscured entanglements between fascist ideologies and environmental thought" over the la...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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it's very much the opposite of that, you should come along and listen to what John has to say!
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Postcards from 1920s and 1930s Seven Dials 4

Before there was the Seven Dials Trust, the area became a focus for the ferocious struggles through which modern London was brought into being.

#London #SevenDials #CoventGarden #History #20s30s
A postcard of a derelict and empty building in Seven Dials, London. The text reads: ‘Black, Asian, Italian, or Jewish entrepreneurs striving to make a living in Seven Dials cannot compete with bigger property companies seeking to remake the area in their own image. The emerging fault-lines of the 1920s and 1930s establish a template for recurring struggles between working-class communities and wealthy gentrifiers and developers.’
December 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM