Published 2024
“…This thesis uses four local case studies to examine the links between popular declinism and discourses of ‘race’ and immigration in the Midlands in the period c. 1958-81: Nottingham c. 1958 (around the time of the ‘race riots’), Smethwick c. 1959-64 (charting the growth of political racism in the town culminating in Peter Griffiths’ 1964 general election victory), Wolverhampton c. 1967-74 (the local background and reactions to local MP
Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech), and Leicester c. 1972-81 (examining reactions to the arrival of Ugandan Asian evacuees in 1972 and the rise and fall of the National Front’s popularity). …”
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