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Gregory Billam

@gregorybillam.bsky.social
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Modern British Historian | PhD in British and Australian Communism | Articles and Book Reviews in Contemporary British History, Labour History Review, Labour History, and Twentieth Century Communism | Web and Social Media Editor @sslh.bsky.social

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This week 75 years ago, a referendum was held as to whether the Communist Party of Australia could be banned, which was narrowly defeated. I published this article on how the attempt to ban the CPA fit within other anti-communist measures in the Anglophone world. www.academia.edu/34350672/Pol...
Britain and the World 10.2 (2017): 170-196
DOI: 10.3366/brw.2017.0274 © Edinburgh University Press
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EVAN SMITH
Policing Communism Across the
'White Man's World': Anti-Communist Co-operation between Australia, South Africa and Britain in the
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chartism Day 2026 is just ten days away. This year's event is held at the Friends Meeting House in Warwick on the 19 September. All are welcome, but numbers are limited. A must for all interested in the Chartist movement! Book here now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
Chartism Day 2026 programme.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 25/08/2026
How have different radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and move towards alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri, our current managing editor, introduces new History Workshop series called 'Radical Horizons'.
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Radical Horizons
This article is the introduction to a new History Workshop series called ‘Radical Horizons’.
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On this day thirty-three years ago, the renowned historian and activist E.P. Thompson died (1924-1993). What are some of your favourite passages, works, and insights?
E. P. Thompson addresses an anti-nuclear weapons rally, Oxford, England, 1980.E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The SSLH welcomes applications for financial support from ECRs, independent scholars and UGs to undertake research in labour history. We take a broad view of ‘labour history’ that includes cultural and social aspects as well as political and institutional histories. sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
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Bursaries & Grants
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support to PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research, as well as to BA and…
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Gramsci: The cup is not empty, but not yet full. Now is the time of monsters.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Labour History Review | Most Read ‘Uncomradely and Un-communist’: Breakdown in the Communist Anglosphere? The Communist Party of Great Britain and Communist Party of Australia Debate, 1947–1948 by @gregorybillam.bsky.social. ➡️Read it online: bit.ly/LHR-Billam @sslh.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social
A red background with grey cogs and mechanics in the bottom right hand corner on top of which is the red plain cover of Labour History Review. The journal caption is placed in white text to the left which reads 'Published in partnership with the Society for the Study of Labour History' with the LUP and SSLH logos in white at the top left.
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Gregory Billam @gregorybillam.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I have a new article (open access!) published online in Contemporary British History covering the Communist Party Historians' Group and the national-radical tradition. So, please download! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Bringing history to the people’: the Communist Party Historians’ Group and the national-radical tradition, 1946–1956
The Communist Party Historians’ Group produced many of the most influential historians of the twentieth century shaping the development of social history and wider British historiography into the p...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/06/2026
Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
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Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Veteran Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child attacks ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s policies * UK politics live – latest updates Shabana Mahmood should be moved out of the Home Office and her asylum policies of “performative cruelty” ripped up by Andy Burnham’s administration, Alf Dubs has said. The veteran Labour peer who came to the UK aged six in 1939 fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia said the home secretary’s talents “would be better used elsewhere in the cabinet”. Continue reading...
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Society for the Study of Labour History stands in solidarity with those affected and emphasises the importance of protecting history and humanities departments from the threat of closure at the University of Hertfordshire, and elsewhere. Read our statement: sslh.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...
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SSLH Statement: History at the University of Hertfordshire
The Society for the Study of Labour History is deeply saddened and shocked to learn that the University of Hertfordshire intends to make cuts across a range of humanities subjects, including the cl…
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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Call for Papers New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field Workshop to assess the current state of research on the New Left. Cfp for an event to be held in November at QMUL. Info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
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Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field
Call for papers.
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A reminder that Labour History Review Volume 88, Issue 1 (2023) @livunipress.bsky.social is available to read online for free. The issue includes articles from João Lázaro, Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh, and @gregorybillam.bsky.social Read the issue here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/lhr/88/1
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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Total utter and complete madness. Historians, or ‘the unemployed’ as they are now known.
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Stack of the book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, edited by Daniel Frost and Evan Smith
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I was one of the examiners of Gregory’s thesis on the Communist Parties of Great Britain and Australia in the early Cold War period, and thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
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Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Congratulations to Gregory on his thesis completion on British and Australian communism. He recently published an article in Twentieth Century Communism on the CPGB's empire conferences in 1947 and 1954, which was published in issue 26. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2024...
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Gregory Billam @gregorybillam.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I've finally moved over from the other unnamed hellscape to shamelessly plug my newly finished PhD thesis on British and Australian communism. A special mention to my fantastic supervisor, Dan Gordon, and my examiners, Evan Smith and James Renton. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/studentTh...
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National communisms: British and Australian roads to socialism in the early Cold War period, 1945-56
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