Freddy Foks
@freddyfoks.bsky.social
'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. Simon Fellow at Manchester: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/freddy.foks
you can find the contents of the book here and a very nice pre-pub review of it by Amanda Vickery: uolpress.co.uk/book/democra...
July 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
you can find the contents of the book here and a very nice pre-pub review of it by Amanda Vickery: uolpress.co.uk/book/democra...
But surely the better (imperfect) analogy is not the defeat of Joseph but the *victory of his son Neville chamberlain completing tariff reform in 1932 when the U.K. put on 10%/15%/33% tariffs on imports and ended the U.K.s role as the free trade hegemon?
April 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
But surely the better (imperfect) analogy is not the defeat of Joseph but the *victory of his son Neville chamberlain completing tariff reform in 1932 when the U.K. put on 10%/15%/33% tariffs on imports and ended the U.K.s role as the free trade hegemon?
help needed: can you help me decipher this word written in the left margin (red underline)?
'Yes, but equally sometimes not, which could (rightly) in[...]'
'Yes, but equally sometimes not, which could (rightly) in[...]'
![A government memo dated 1965, with marginal handwriting... on the left margin: 'Yes, but equally sometimes not, which could (righly) [illegible]'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yyhv55alctzexpq3ah4loypb/bafkreig6lfjqhv5vzy5ayijobslaumqalihqm3ufhxbmuvjkjiuq4qsl6u@jpeg)
March 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
help needed: can you help me decipher this word written in the left margin (red underline)?
'Yes, but equally sometimes not, which could (rightly) in[...]'
'Yes, but equally sometimes not, which could (rightly) in[...]'
Compare these figures with the numbers migrating from the Caribbean on British troopships in the late 40s [table from Lindsey 'Halting the Tide']... which the govt tried to get down to zero
February 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Compare these figures with the numbers migrating from the Caribbean on British troopships in the late 40s [table from Lindsey 'Halting the Tide']... which the govt tried to get down to zero
Counting ships and looking at numbers of berths provides concrete evidence of govt intervention in migration policy. This is only one example: how many berths the govt subsidised after WW2 to maximise migrant numbers to Australia
February 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Counting ships and looking at numbers of berths provides concrete evidence of govt intervention in migration policy. This is only one example: how many berths the govt subsidised after WW2 to maximise migrant numbers to Australia
My article tries to do something different by looking at how shipping was used by the government to prosecute its aims in migration policy.
The way shipping was used is captured in this schematic diagram
The way shipping was used is captured in this schematic diagram
February 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My article tries to do something different by looking at how shipping was used by the government to prosecute its aims in migration policy.
The way shipping was used is captured in this schematic diagram
The way shipping was used is captured in this schematic diagram
Then there are those who make the complete opposite case: and argue that the British government was *racist. It took between 1948 and 1962 to persuade the public to accept migration restrictions
February 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Then there are those who make the complete opposite case: and argue that the British government was *racist. It took between 1948 and 1962 to persuade the public to accept migration restrictions
The question they ask is: why was there such a 'delay' between the 1948 BNA, the arrival of 'Windrush' migrants in that same year, and the turn to restriction in the 1960s? Dean's article is a classic...
February 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The question they ask is: why was there such a 'delay' between the 1948 BNA, the arrival of 'Windrush' migrants in that same year, and the turn to restriction in the 1960s? Dean's article is a classic...
On the one hand are historians who point to the 'liberal' dimensions of the 1948 Act. They accept that the BNA had little to do with immigration, but argue there was an elite consensus in the 40s and 50s set against undermining its expansive definition of Commonwealth citizenship
February 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
On the one hand are historians who point to the 'liberal' dimensions of the 1948 Act. They accept that the BNA had little to do with immigration, but argue there was an elite consensus in the 40s and 50s set against undermining its expansive definition of Commonwealth citizenship
How might ships change the way we understand migration policy in postwar Britain and its empire? My new article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
offers an answer to that question. Here's a thread to hopefully pique your interest and maybe get you to read it 🧵🚢
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
offers an answer to that question. Here's a thread to hopefully pique your interest and maybe get you to read it 🧵🚢
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
February 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
How might ships change the way we understand migration policy in postwar Britain and its empire? My new article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
offers an answer to that question. Here's a thread to hopefully pique your interest and maybe get you to read it 🧵🚢
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
offers an answer to that question. Here's a thread to hopefully pique your interest and maybe get you to read it 🧵🚢
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
great chart! a lot can be said about modern history by tacking on this one from Paul Kennedy's recent Victory at Sea...
February 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
great chart! a lot can be said about modern history by tacking on this one from Paul Kennedy's recent Victory at Sea...