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9 May, 2008
Signs of progress on my thesis
Filed under:Personal, Academia at10:28 this text spokenListen to this posts linked to this

I’ve got my theory mojo working - at least erratically - and have a stack of books by or about Erving Goffman by my desk to prove it:

From Things observed

(While I am sharing pictures, also see various London-specific stuff in my other album below):

London discoveries
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2 May, 2008
Fighting British fascists in the months after WWII
Filed under:Interesting facts, Broadband content, London at14:58 this text spokenListen to this posts linked to this

An extraordinary untold story unearthed from the archives by BBC Radio 4 - how British fascists released from internment after WWII started up again and were fought in the streets of Dalston (near where I used to live) and elsewhere by Jewish militants who styled themselves the 43 Group. The initial group included (mostly) ex-servicemen, five women, and a 17-year-old Vidal Sassoon. That fascists in Britain continued to spout poisonous anti-semitism (extracts were included on the program) even after the details of the holocaust began to be revealed is truly shocking to me.

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