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Thompson vs Elias – ways of looking at the politics of Millwall

Posted: November 25, 2011 by davidlmartin in Uncategorized
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It was the New Left historian E. P. Thompson who transformed histories of the working class with a simple inversion. Rather than analyzing class in terms of the relationship between workers and the means of production, he suggested that if we were to look at workers’ shared experience of capital we would find that they [...]

Taking history underground

Posted: October 16, 2011 by davidlmartin in The Tunnel
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  The Greenwich Foot-Tunnel is, for my mind, a site to be reckoned with. Its limitations are second to none. Yes, the prison is necessarily restrictive in terms of visitor access, but do not let the public nature of the tunnel deceive you: any project in here must not obstruct thoroughfare, must not harm or [...]