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Rhian E. Jones

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Red bluestocking. Writer, journalist and broadcaster on history, politics and culture. Coeditor @RedPeppermag. Welsh. 🥃⚒️ 📧: rhian@redpepper.org.uk

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Rhian E. Jones’s Biography

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Writer, critic and blogger on politics, music, pop culture and radical history. Grew up in South Wales and now based in London. Author of Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender (zer0, 2013); Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest (University of Wales Press, 2015); Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible (Repeater, 2017); and editor of Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them (Repeater, 2017). Blogs at Velvet Coalmine: w…

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The complex cases of macho music and its female fans

The complex cases of macho music and its female fans

Along with co-editor Eli Davies, Rhian E Jones has compiled essays written by women about their experiences o…

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Does the BBC care about class?

Does the BBC care about class?

The BBC has made a concerted effort to reflect the diversity of Britain when it comes to race and gender. The…

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We shouldn't lament the Welsh valleys' loss, rather learn from their radical past | Rhian E Jones

We shouldn't lament the Welsh valleys' loss, rather learn from their radical past | Rhian E Jones

Growing up in the Welsh valleys, one was constantly reminded of the region's radical past. My history lessons…

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Bourgeois? Does John Hayes really understand the word? | Rhian E Jones

Bourgeois? Does John Hayes really understand the word? | Rhian E Jones

The term "bourgeois", like the term "terrorist", has a long and sometimes counterintuitive history. When the …

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Appointed on merit? Might as well believe in the tooth fairy | Rhian E Jones

Appointed on merit? Might as well believe in the tooth fairy | Rhian E Jones

In the debate around John Whittingdale's warning to David Cameron not to "push through" a female candidate to…

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Was Margaret Thatcher really 'the first Spice Girl'? | Rhian E Jones

Was Margaret Thatcher really 'the first Spice Girl'? | Rhian E Jones

One of social media's more unexpected responses to the death of Margaret Thatcher was the attempt to enlighte…

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Blurred Lines: A view from the comment section

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By Rhian E. Jones Verified
| Red Pepper (UK) Verified
Like many things enabled in the idealistic early days of Web 2.0, the opportunity for public responses to mainstream journalism via the comments section wasn’t a bad idea to begin with. But under the particular business model of left-leaning newspapers like the one where I worked in the 2010s, comment sections became a battleground in the emerging ‘culture war’. Let’s start with the headlines.
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The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?

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By Rhian E. Jones Verified
| History Today Verified
A sustained campaign of attacks blazed across the Welsh counties of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire from 1839. Tenant-farmers and labourers, infuriated by increased charges on road travel that made their working lives and finances even more burdensome, took matters into their own hands by destroying tollhouses, gates, and bars in what became known as the Rebecca riots.
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review

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By Rhian E. Jones Verified
| History Today Verified
Ahead of a possible Labour victory in Britain’s next general election, three new histories published on the centenary of the party’s first government provide a useful opportunity for reflection and perspective. Peter Clark’s brisk and personable The Men of 1924 devotes roughly half its length to Labour’s early years, as the party transformed itself ‘from pressure group to government in waiting’.
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