National Front

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Cultural formation Andrea Levy
She noted the debilitating effects of racism on its victims. As a young woman jeered at by a National Front member, she felt apologetic. I wanted them to like me. It would be years before...
Textual Features Andrea Levy
Faith is denied the promotion she covets because no black girl has ever worked as a dresser. When she pursues the matter she is set to dress puppets, not living actors. With her house-mate Simon...

Timeline

1978: The Corner Bookshop in Leeds, and the Fourth...

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1978

The Corner Bookshop in Leeds, and the Fourth Idea Bookshop in Bradford (both feminist or left-wing centres) were attacked by the National Front .
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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23 April 1979: Blair Peach, a London teacher, suffered a...

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23 April 1979

Blair Peach , a London teacher, suffered a fractured skull when he was hit on the head by a police officer as he was leaving an anti-National Front demonstration at Southall. He died...

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