Author: Martin Shaw
Brighton’s Green MP
Congratulations to Caroline Lucas, elected for Brighton Pavilion as Britain's first Green member of parliament, in the general election on May 6 - a small but significant development in the context of the otherwise indecisive results (on which I will comment further once the outcome of coalition negotiations is clear). All I want to say… Continue reading Brighton’s Green MP
Brighton Pavilion’s dilemma – Britain’s first Green MP?
This blog does not usually deal with local politics, but I happen to live in the Brighton Pavilion parliamentary constituency, widely hyped as likely to elect Britain's first Green Party Member of Parliament, Caroline Lucas, at the General Election due to be held by June this year. In an election dominated by the uninspiring choice… Continue reading Brighton Pavilion’s dilemma – Britain’s first Green MP?
Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide
To appear in Holy Land Studies, 9, 1, May 2010. The text originally published in this post was not the final version, which is now available at https://theorypolitics.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/palestine-in-an-international-historical-perspective-on-genocide-2/
Text of my Britain and Genocide lecture
Here is the full text, longer than actually delivered: 100126 King's War Studies Lecture, Britain and Genocide.doc. However this is a draft and should NOT be cited. Here is a link to the definitive published version, for citation. This appeared on the Review of International Studies website as a FirstView article on 29 Nov. 2010, … Continue reading Text of my Britain and Genocide lecture
Britain and Genocide, on Open Democracy
Holocaust Memorial Day: my account of Britain's own record on genocide published on Open Democracy. This is a shortened version of my Annual War Studies Lecture, King's College, London, 26 January 2010, 'Britain and Genocide'.
Turn of the decade: the 2000s in historical perspective
My contribution to Open Democracy's 2010 forum.
From the archive: audio of my speech on 9/11
Speech at Sussex University, 17 October 2001.
Britain and the Cold War exhibition
I'm featured in the 'What Lies Beneath' exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London.
BBC ‘Witness’ programme, ‘Revolution at the LSE’
I was interviewed about the 1969 crisis at the LSE: 'Students in London in the 1960s believed that they could change the world with occupations and sit-ins. When the authorities built steel gates at the London School of Economics - the students couldn't let them stand. Our history programme Witness hears from two former revolutionaries… Continue reading BBC ‘Witness’ programme, ‘Revolution at the LSE’
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