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  • 16 Oct 2017

    ‘No Future’ takeover week on fifteeneightyfour starts today!

    All this week on fifteeneightyfour we are celebrating the launch of No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984 by Matt Worley with music, words, videos and giveaways. Forty years on from the release of the iconic debut album, 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols', No Future recaptures punk's anarchic force as a medium through which the frustrated and the disaffected could reject, revolt and re-invent. Keep checking this space throughout the week to hear more.

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  • 15 May 2017
    John Kiszely

    Author John Kiszely sheds new light on one of the worst blunders in British military history

    The British campaign in Norway in 1940 was an ignominious and abject failure. It is perhaps best known as the fiasco which directly led to the fall of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his replacement by Winston Churchill. But what were the reasons for failure? In this exclusive article for fifteeneightyfour, Sir John Kiszely, who served in the British Army for forty years, rising to the rank of lieutenant general, explains his personal fascination with the campaign and what it can tell us about more recent wars.

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  • 21 Apr 2017
    Siniša Malešević

    The Myth of Violent Past

    Siniša Malešević, author of The Rise of Organised Brutality, explores how organised violence is on the rise and why it has increased throughout the course of human history.

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  • 30 Nov 2016
    Campbell McLachlan

    Brexit and the Foreign Affairs Prerogative

    On Monday 5 December 2016, the UK Supreme Court will hear the Government’s appeal from the judgment of the Divisional Court in R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. It is the case of the century on the scope of the foreign affairs treaty prerogative. A unanimous Divisional Court held that […]

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  • 13 Oct 2016

    UK Black History Month: A Reading List

    Check out our reading list for UK Black History Month!

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  • 13 Sep 2016
    Kirsten McKenzie

    Rogue Agents

    Kirsten McKenzie explores a radical new account of the legal, constitutional and administrative transformations that unfolded during the British colonial order of the 1820s.

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  • 7 Sep 2016
    William Cavert

    Remembering the Great Fire of London, 350 years on

    This week marks the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London. Here, author William Cavert casts new light on the possible causes of the disaster.

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  • 20 Jun 2016
    Vivien A. Schmidt

    The Issue Remarkable for its Absence: The Resilience of Neo-Liberalism in Europe

    Vivien A. Schmidt, co-edtior of Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy, examines one of the motivators behind the Brexit camp: neoliberalism.

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