Contemporary British History

This article enhances our understanding of how national considerations shaped and bounded forms of transnational activism. The existing anti-apartheid scholarship acknowledges that activist responses reflected the political, economic, social, and cultural environments in which they operated. However, a dominant British metanarrative exists that marginalises the experiences and developments of anti-apartheid activism across Britain's constituent four nations. This study provides the first in-depth analysis of the Welsh Anti-Apartheid Movement (WAAM), which in turn, creates an alternative point of reference for understanding the growth of activism in Britain. Based on archival research and oral history interviews, this article demonstrates the significance of the Welsh national context in creating points of divergence, and uniqueness, with the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, including its strong demands for autonomy. A focus on WAAM clearly demonstrates how the anti-apartheid cause was refracted through Welsh national identity, language, and culture, which considerably impacted how it mobilised and campaigned. This article argues that new readings of anti-apartheid activism are derived by recognising that the political and social conditions in Wales created defined spatial differences from the rest of Britain.

Matthew Graham

‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement

“带有威尔士风味的反种族隔离”：民族文化、组织自治与威尔士反种族隔离运动

Feminists of the 1960s-80s linked women's emancipation to economic, social and political equality. So, despite long traditions of women's giving, activists seeking financial support for their work generally looked to public funders or trade, whilst philanthropy was rejected. Women with wealth in turn experienced uncertainty, guilt or shame in how to give or invest in political contexts. Yet in fact, women did donate to feminist ventures, including literary productions, magazines and activist presses. This article uncovers this history, looking at how philanthropy helped sustain the cultural arms of social movements, yet usually unplanned and a last resort. Focusing on Spare Rib, WIRES, Trouble & Strife, Onlywomen and Black Power press Bogle-L'Ouverture, it explores the motives for both givers and receivers. Do donors have to be wealthy? What about donations to women's activism from men, or to Black activism from white people? In answering these questions, I compare philanthropy in the UK with women's funding movements in the US and the Netherlands at the time, considering their more proactive approaches to the risks that inequalities would be cemented. These examples demand consideration in today's context of revived feminist activism and shrinking state funding, in which many are turning to private funding for support.

Margaretta Jolly

Feminist cash for feminist culture: considering philanthropy in the UK Women’s liberation movement, Black power and beyond

女权主义资金支持女权主义文化：探讨英国妇女解放运动、黑人权力运动及其他领域的慈善事业

This article explores how the student press at the New Universities of Sussex and Essex functioned as a key source of expression for the student body, revealing how students developed a sense of identity by addressing the new university community and wider society, by covering national and global politics, popular culture, and local community causes. The article demonstrates how student publications provide insight into the students' interpretation of their time at university—its curriculum, teachers, buildings, politics, and wider issues. The article is based on original archival research on a series of student publications at the Sussex and Essex special collections. The research reveals an alternative and competing narrative of the institutions in question, it helps promote the student voice in these institutions' histories and therefore decentres a narrative often dominated by founding academics and architects. The article presents how students were directly involved in perceiving and creating the university community and in forming the idea of the 'student' as an actor in the university community and as part of wider society. The article contributes to a more nuanced history of these institutions, the growing field of student histories and histories of post-war higher education more generally.

Jack O’Connor

Competing narratives for a new university: Student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979

新大学竞争性叙事：苏塞克斯和埃塞克斯学生报，1960-1979年

Ben Jones

Geo Walker Churchman

“It was like a big union”: emotional communities, working-class subjectivities and the popular memory of acid house and rave

“就像一个大联盟”：情感社区、工人阶级主体性与酸屋和锐舞的流行记忆

Eleana Sanchez

Mark Wickham-Jones

Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party

斯图亚特·霍尔、新左派与工党

Abbreviation	Contemp. Br. Hist.
Journal Impact	0.52
Quartiles(Global)	HISTORY(Q1)

ISSN	1361-9462, 1743-7997
h-index	19

Publication Information	Publisher: Routledge，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2007，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 52.05%

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‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement

Feminist cash for feminist culture: considering philanthropy in the UK Women’s liberation movement, Black power and beyond

Competing narratives for a new university: Student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979

“It was like a big union”: emotional communities, working-class subjectivities and the popular memory of acid house and rave

Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party

‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement

Feminist cash for feminist culture: considering philanthropy in the UK Women’s liberation movement, Black power and beyond

Competing narratives for a new university: Student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979

Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party

“It was like a big union”: emotional communities, working-class subjectivities and the popular memory of acid house and rave