Alfie Steer
@alfiesteer.bsky.social
Historian of the Labour Left. Articles and book reviews in Tribune, Jacobin, Political Insight, Contemporary British History, English Historical Review, Modern British History.
Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
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A busy (and jetlagged) return to London, but I'm still thinking about @thenacbs.bsky.social in Montreal last weekend! Great to be joined by @alfiesteer.bsky.social and @racheljcollett.bsky.social for our panel on activism in the 1990s, and very grateful to Jess White for stepping in as chair ☃️
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A busy (and jetlagged) return to London, but I'm still thinking about @thenacbs.bsky.social in Montreal last weekend! Great to be joined by @alfiesteer.bsky.social and @racheljcollett.bsky.social for our panel on activism in the 1990s, and very grateful to Jess White for stepping in as chair ☃️
Such a lovely evening! Great end to #nacbs2025
I had a feeling I was being watched over last night at dinner here in Montréal 😳. However it didn’t impact too much on lovey inter generational chat with @racheljcollett.bsky.social & @alfiesteer.bsky.social. Nice way to end #nacbs2025.
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Such a lovely evening! Great end to #nacbs2025
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This panel looks fab.
I wonder why there's no equivalent of NACBS in the UK, mega conference of the newest British history.
I guess that Brum and Warwick are trying to do so, but there's nothing that comprehensive.
I wonder why there's no equivalent of NACBS in the UK, mega conference of the newest British history.
I guess that Brum and Warwick are trying to do so, but there's nothing that comprehensive.
Next up at #nacbs2025 is a fab lineup of rising history stars in field of histories of activism in late 20th century Britain incl: @racheljcollett.bsky.social @alfiesteer.bsky.social Dan Frost & Jess White.
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This panel looks fab.
I wonder why there's no equivalent of NACBS in the UK, mega conference of the newest British history.
I guess that Brum and Warwick are trying to do so, but there's nothing that comprehensive.
I wonder why there's no equivalent of NACBS in the UK, mega conference of the newest British history.
I guess that Brum and Warwick are trying to do so, but there's nothing that comprehensive.
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Next up at #nacbs2025 is a fab lineup of rising history stars in field of histories of activism in late 20th century Britain incl: @racheljcollett.bsky.social @alfiesteer.bsky.social Dan Frost & Jess White.
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Next up at #nacbs2025 is a fab lineup of rising history stars in field of histories of activism in late 20th century Britain incl: @racheljcollett.bsky.social @alfiesteer.bsky.social Dan Frost & Jess White.
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Great to see our @histparl.bsky.social colleague @alfiesteer.bsky.social in action!
Next up at #nacbs2025 is a fab lineup of rising history stars in field of histories of activism in late 20th century Britain incl: @racheljcollett.bsky.social @alfiesteer.bsky.social Dan Frost & Jess White.
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Great to see our @histparl.bsky.social colleague @alfiesteer.bsky.social in action!
Check out @racheljcollett.bsky.social's fantastic article on the Women's Liberation Movement in Merseyside, and radical regionalism, in the latest issue of Tribune - out today!
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Check out @racheljcollett.bsky.social's fantastic article on the Women's Liberation Movement in Merseyside, and radical regionalism, in the latest issue of Tribune - out today!
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Lovely to see my piece in the new issue of Tribune alongside other great articles on protest + power ✊🏼
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Lovely to see my piece in the new issue of Tribune alongside other great articles on protest + power ✊🏼
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Not a single member of the Socialist Campaign Group has a position in the Labour Govt
But MPs backed by the right-leaning Labour to Win faction are *hugely* represented
This is IMO a big part of the issue with PM Starmer's Government. It has a v narrow ideological range. No 10's tent is very small
But MPs backed by the right-leaning Labour to Win faction are *hugely* represented
This is IMO a big part of the issue with PM Starmer's Government. It has a v narrow ideological range. No 10's tent is very small
November 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Not a single member of the Socialist Campaign Group has a position in the Labour Govt
But MPs backed by the right-leaning Labour to Win faction are *hugely* represented
This is IMO a big part of the issue with PM Starmer's Government. It has a v narrow ideological range. No 10's tent is very small
But MPs backed by the right-leaning Labour to Win faction are *hugely* represented
This is IMO a big part of the issue with PM Starmer's Government. It has a v narrow ideological range. No 10's tent is very small
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New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Nice surprise to see my article on Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp is out today - have a read if interested in space, the weirdness of the Wirral, local feminisms and anti-nuclear activism in Merseyside, and global solidarity movements in the 1980s academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Nice surprise to see my article on Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp is out today - have a read if interested in space, the weirdness of the Wirral, local feminisms and anti-nuclear activism in Merseyside, and global solidarity movements in the 1980s academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
Superb article by @racheljcollett.bsky.social in @mbhjournal.bsky.social, recovering the Capenhurst Women's Peace Camp. Fascinating case study of 1980s anti-nuclear feminism on the Wirral peninsula, and the surprising connections to the Namibian freedom struggle.
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September 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Superb article by @racheljcollett.bsky.social in @mbhjournal.bsky.social, recovering the Capenhurst Women's Peace Camp. Fascinating case study of 1980s anti-nuclear feminism on the Wirral peninsula, and the surprising connections to the Namibian freedom struggle.
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Fun fact: Danny Kruger had to resign as the Tory candidate for Sedgefield in 2005 after saying the Tories were planning to introduce 'a period of creative destruction in the public services'.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Tory candidate quits over remark
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September 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Fun fact: Danny Kruger had to resign as the Tory candidate for Sedgefield in 2005 after saying the Tories were planning to introduce 'a period of creative destruction in the public services'.
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With all the debate about
@mainstreamlabour.bsky.social
and the kind of soft+hard left unity that may be necessary to change the Labour Party's current trajectory, it would be remiss of me to not share my article on the last time something like this happened:
@mainstreamlabour.bsky.social
and the kind of soft+hard left unity that may be necessary to change the Labour Party's current trajectory, it would be remiss of me to not share my article on the last time something like this happened:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2023.2174975
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September 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
With all the debate about
@mainstreamlabour.bsky.social
and the kind of soft+hard left unity that may be necessary to change the Labour Party's current trajectory, it would be remiss of me to not share my article on the last time something like this happened:
@mainstreamlabour.bsky.social
and the kind of soft+hard left unity that may be necessary to change the Labour Party's current trajectory, it would be remiss of me to not share my article on the last time something like this happened:
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Huge congratulations to Martin Carthy for being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize!
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Martin Carthy’s “Transform Me Then Into A Fish” is shortlisted for the Mercury Prize 2025
In a pleasantly surprising turn of events, the Mercury Prize has included folk legend Martin Carthy’s latest album, “Transform Me Then Into A Fish,” on its 2025 shortlist, making the 84-year-old music...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Huge congratulations to Martin Carthy for being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize!
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Died #OTD 1999, Alan Clark, political diarist and Conservative MP for Plymouth Sutton, 1974-92 and Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-99. He was once described by Norman Lamont as 'the most politically incorrect, outspoken, iconoclastic and reckless politician of our times.'
September 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Died #OTD 1999, Alan Clark, political diarist and Conservative MP for Plymouth Sutton, 1974-92 and Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-99. He was once described by Norman Lamont as 'the most politically incorrect, outspoken, iconoclastic and reckless politician of our times.'
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Excellent article in Guardian from John McDonnell MP
Don’t sugarcoat this: Starmer’s government is weak and may perish. Here are my five steps to recovery
John McDonnell
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t sugarcoat this: Starmer’s government is weak and may perish. Here are my five steps to recovery
John McDonnell
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Don’t sugarcoat this: Starmer’s government is weak and may perish. Here are my five steps to recovery | John McDonnell
After so many avoidable mistakes, of course people are angry. But with the far right looming, we need action not despair, says MP and former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell
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September 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Excellent article in Guardian from John McDonnell MP
Don’t sugarcoat this: Starmer’s government is weak and may perish. Here are my five steps to recovery
John McDonnell
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t sugarcoat this: Starmer’s government is weak and may perish. Here are my five steps to recovery
John McDonnell
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I attended my first Morris dancer AGM and let me just say a bitter CLP meeting is NOTHING in comparison.
September 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I attended my first Morris dancer AGM and let me just say a bitter CLP meeting is NOTHING in comparison.
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I am going to be speaking at this year’s NACBS on this amazing panel with colleagues and comrades @racheljcollett.bsky.social, @fmarshallpayne.bsky.social and Daniel Frost. Hope to see some of u there or for a pint afterwards 🍻
August 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I am going to be speaking at this year’s NACBS on this amazing panel with colleagues and comrades @racheljcollett.bsky.social, @fmarshallpayne.bsky.social and Daniel Frost. Hope to see some of u there or for a pint afterwards 🍻
I am going to be speaking at this year’s NACBS on this amazing panel with colleagues and comrades @racheljcollett.bsky.social, @fmarshallpayne.bsky.social and Daniel Frost. Hope to see some of u there or for a pint afterwards 🍻
August 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I am going to be speaking at this year’s NACBS on this amazing panel with colleagues and comrades @racheljcollett.bsky.social, @fmarshallpayne.bsky.social and Daniel Frost. Hope to see some of u there or for a pint afterwards 🍻
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Excellent piece! Time for a new Corrupt Practices Bill to counter the danger of plutocratic wealth - often from the US - corrupting British politics.
Today marks the anniversary of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act receiving royal assent in 1883. My new post for @histparl.bsky.social looks at the Act's impact on election expenditure and electoral corruption: historyofparliament.com/2025/08/25/1...
A 'revolution' in electioneering? The impact of the 1883 Corrupt Practices Act - The History of Parliament
Concluding her series on the 1883 Corrupt Practices Act, Dr Kathryn Rix of our House of Commons, 1832-1945 project looks at the long-term consequences of this
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August 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Excellent piece! Time for a new Corrupt Practices Bill to counter the danger of plutocratic wealth - often from the US - corrupting British politics.
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Final cover proof!
Pre-order the hardback edition for your institutional library now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Pre-order the hardback edition for your institutional library now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
August 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Final cover proof!
Pre-order the hardback edition for your institutional library now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Pre-order the hardback edition for your institutional library now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
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Last year @alfiesteer.bsky.social looked at Benn's campaign for the right to renounce his peerage and the events of the subsequent elections.
Watch the video via our TikTok channel:
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Watch the video via our TikTok channel:
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#OTD 1963 Tony Benn was re-elected as an MP. But why had he been removed in the first place? Here’s Alfie with the story! #HistParl #OTD #history #historytok #parliament #historytiktok #westminster #e...
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August 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Last year @alfiesteer.bsky.social looked at Benn's campaign for the right to renounce his peerage and the events of the subsequent elections.
Watch the video via our TikTok channel:
www.tiktok.com/@histparl/vi...
Watch the video via our TikTok channel:
www.tiktok.com/@histparl/vi...
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Britain can’t go on like this. The normalisation of extreme racism via social media & the UK gov cosplaying the far right has brought us to a very dangerous place - perhaps the most dangerous since the 1950s
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters.
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
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Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Britain can’t go on like this. The normalisation of extreme racism via social media & the UK gov cosplaying the far right has brought us to a very dangerous place - perhaps the most dangerous since the 1950s
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One of the major far right critics of Churchill was David Irving, who in the 1980s used Churchill's record to favourably contrast with Hitler. His 1987 book 'Churchill's War' was an example for this, before his fully explicit Holocaust denial from the late 1980s onwards.
August 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
One of the major far right critics of Churchill was David Irving, who in the 1980s used Churchill's record to favourably contrast with Hitler. His 1987 book 'Churchill's War' was an example for this, before his fully explicit Holocaust denial from the late 1980s onwards.
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#OTD 1819, the Peterloo Massacre took place, when a peaceful protest calling for parliamentary reform turned into tragedy. Find out more in this video: www.tiktok.com/@histparl/vi... (1/7)
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August 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#OTD 1819, the Peterloo Massacre took place, when a peaceful protest calling for parliamentary reform turned into tragedy. Find out more in this video: www.tiktok.com/@histparl/vi... (1/7)