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"The United Front and the Popular Front in the North-east of England, 1936-1939" Ph.D thesis, 2002
Lewis Mates
This thesis examines the united and popular front campaigns in the north east of England. The region was important for the national success of both projects since it was dominated by a moderate and loyal labour movement. Chapter one examines united and popular front activity in the region in 1936 and provides an explanation of why there was so little of it. The second chapter focuses on divisions within the labour movement which provided significant barriers to united and popular front supporters. Chapter three examines the divisions related to the significant number of Catholics within the labour movement. It argues that Catholic disquiet over the labour movement’s attitude to the Spanish civil war did not provoke serious internal divisions, though Catholics remained opposed to Communism and therefore to the united and popular fronts. The Unity Campaign of 1937 and its effect is discussed in chapter four. This campaign drew very little support from within the labour movement and failed to improve relations between the left parties. Its effect, however, was not as damaging as some have claimed. The following four chapters deal solely with aspects of the popular front. Chapter five discusses the 1938 United Peace Alliance campaign and examines the fresh potential that the aftermath of the Munich settlement offered. The 1939 Cripps Petition campaign is examined in chapter six. Both campaigns failed to mobilise significant labour movement support in the region. Chapter seven considers the attitudes of Conservatives and Liberals to the popular front. Liberal support was almost non-existent. Liberal attitudes were generally characterised by opposition to both socialism and communism, therefore their natural allies were the Conservatives, who largely supported Chamberlain and thus opposed the popular front. Chapter eight, on the Tyneside foodship, assesses the argument that the ‘Aid Spain’ campaigns constituted the closest thing to a popular front in Britain. Generally speaking, these campaigns cannot be seen as de facto popular fronts as they were humanitarian and not political. The thesis concludes that the united front was not very united, nor was the popular front very popular in the region, reflecting their failures at national level.
Spanish Civil War and the British Left
Dissension over Spain [SCWBL Ch.3]
2007 •
Lewis Mates
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Public Memory of the 1641 Irish Rebellion in the Nineteenth Century British and Irish press.
Irish Rebellion in c19 popular press
2019 •
David Doherty
The Irish Confederate Wars began in 1641 when the Catholic aristocracy staged an unsuccessful coup against English Protestant rule there. In The Bloody Bridge, published in 1903, Thomas Fitzpatrick described the insurrection as an episode 'about which men wrote, as desperately as they fought'. The sentiment is utterly apt. Allegations of atrocities committed by Catholics on Protestants in 1641 have been a source of propaganda since the rebellion itself. The century following the United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798 and the Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1800 saw the 1641 Rising alluded to in the British and Irish newspapers numerous times. This paper will consider the public memory of 1641 in the nineteenth century popular press during the Catholic Emancipation movement in the early decades, through the Great Famine and rise of Fenianism, to the tumultuous Home Rule campaigns from the 1880s onward.
Public Memory of the 1641 Irish Rebellion in the Nineteenth Century British and Irish press
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The Easter Rising (1916) in Ireland and its Historical Context: The Campaign for an Irish Democracy
2019 •
Féilim Ó hAdhmaill
This entry focuses on the Easter Rising in Ireland (1916), its causes, and its impact nationally and internationally. As such, this is a study of the development of resistance to British colonial rule in Ireland, the beginnings of Irish republicanism, its challenges to existing power structures such as the Catholic Church, the landowning, and emerging capitalist class and the British Empire, and the resulting tensions and conflicts which emerged within the Irish population and between it and British political and strategic interests. It also discusses the legacy of the Rising and its aftermath in relation to Ireland’s place within the world, the continuing uncertainty and unresolved issues around conflict, and peace within Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations today.
The United Front and the Popular Front In the North East of England, 1936-1939
2002 •
Lewis Mates
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Neil Vaney
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