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‘The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed’ review
When in April 2026 Donald Trump threatened the destruction of ‘a whole civilisation’ in Iran, it betrayed a desperation to bring an end to a conflict that will likely go down as one of the biggest follies in recent military history. But Trump’s words also alluded to something deeper. The genocidal threat to eradicate a civilisation unwittingly hit upon one reason why his war with Iran was never likely to be straightforward.
What the 1985 Bradford school strikes can teach us
Along with students across the country, pupils at Iqra academy in Bradford have recently embarked upon a new academic year. The school boasts a newly built, wood-panelled annex, but on the sandstone facade of the original Victorian building its original name — Drummond Road board school — is carved in imposing block capitals. In the surrounding Manningham district, nearly 80% of residents come from South Asian backgrounds and a similar percentage are Muslim.
Multicultural Britain: a people’s history
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'Why trying to out Reform Reform would be a mistake'
It’s 1964 and a newly installed Labour government are worried about anti-immigrant sentiment among its core voters. At the general election in October that year, the Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths had caused a famous upset in the Smethwick constituency in the Midlands. Griffiths defeated Patrick Gordon-Walker, the incumbent MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary, on a brazenly discriminatory platform.
Multicultural Britain: A People's History
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The five best non-fiction books of 2024 - according to our experts Original
With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation UK, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. In 2024, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it comes to recommending non-fiction. At The Conversation we have experts across all disciplines. Here, a few of them recommended the best books in their field for a general audience.
Ignore the sham debate over multiculturalism — the UK is already diverse
In inner-city Birmingham in the 1990s, we had our own way of conversing at school — a fusion of the local Brummie dialect, Jamaican patois and snippets of Punjabi. Hello became “wagwan” (“what’s going on?”), goodbye became “laters” and negotiations for chewing gum were often conducted in Punjabi. This urban polyglotism was a reflection of the multiple languages and idioms that many pupils were using at home, even if the Punjabi insults we used in the playground would be unrepeatable in English.
Multicultural Britain
Description Between the end of the Second World War and the early twenty-first century, Britain became multicultural. This vivid book tells that remarkable story. Kieran Connell, an historian of Irish and German heritage who grew up in Balsall Heath, inner-city Birmingham, takes readers into multicultural communities across Britain at key moments in their development.
Debating the 'success' of multiculturalism misses the point - it's simply part of life in Britain today
By Kieran Connell, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Queen's University Belfast Suella Braverman – the home secretary in one of the UK’s most ethnically diverse cabinets in history – has declared that multiculturalism has failed. Speaking to an American think tank, Braverman spoke out against what she called a “misguided dogma” that has “allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it”.
Debating the 'success' of multiculturalism misses the point – it's simply part of life in Britain today Original
Suella Braverman – the home secretary in one of the UK’s most ethnically diverse cabinets in history – has declared that multiculturalism has failed. Speaking to an American think tank, Braverman spoke out against what she called a “misguided dogma” that has “allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it”. I am a historian of multiculturalism, and grew up in Balsall Heath, an area of Birmingham with a decades-long history of rich cultural diversity.
New Directions in Diaspora Studies
This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts.
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