Evan

@evansmithhist

Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread

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Evan@evansmithhist· 28d

Cover of ‘The Cheese and the Worms’ by Carlo Ginsburg, with early modern drawing a man reading a book in a field with a windmill behind him

Evan@evansmithhist· Jul 3

Dead serious about aviation history!

Evan@evansmithhist· Jul 1

This is the paper that I presented at AHA this week in Sydney and will be talking about at next week's @colmigproject.bsky.social workshop. The paper went well (I think) and I got some good questions. I am working on a lengthy draft at the moment. If anyone wants to read for feedback, let me know!

Powerpoint title page for my AHA conference paper:

"Settler colonialism, imperial migration states and the control of non-‘white’ mobility: Australia and south Africa, 1901-39"

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 29

Let’s go!

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 29

Facebook reminding me of that time when I was a talking head in an ABC documentary.

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 28

Our three books on the British far left are available half price for two weeks only! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526107343/ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526113665/ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 28

The books will be organised using the Dua Decimal System

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 25

Another thing I found in the ASIO archives was when they didn’t tape Four Corners and had to approach the ABC for a recording.

ASIO memo from 1978 on National Front of Australia

1. DURING THE WEEK, OF 11-12 NOVEMBER, THE ABC TELEVISION PROGRAMME,
"FOUR CORNERS', CONSISTED OF AN EXAMINATION OF RIGHT-WING GROUPS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, WEST GERMANY AND AUSTRALIA.
CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION WAS, 1 UNDERSTAND, GIVEN TO THE NATIONAL FRONT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND AUSTRALIA AND THE LEADER OF THE NATIONAL FRONT HERE, ROSEMARY SISSYON, WAS INTERVIEWED. SISSION IS OF CONSIDERABLE INTEREST TO US AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE INTERVIEW WAS MOST REVEALING.
2. WITHOUT FOREWARNING OF THE PROGRAMME, HEADQUARTERS UNFORTUNATELY DID NOT MAKE RECORDING ARRANGEMENTS. | HAVE DISCUSSED THE MATTER WITH THE ADG/S AND HE AGREED WITH MY PROPOSAL THAT I DRAW THE MATTER TO YOUR ATTENTION AND ENQUIRE WHETHER WE MAY BE ABLE TO OBTAIN A PRINT. OF THE FILM FROM THE ABC ITSELF. YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THE MATTER WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 25

TFW you're an ASIO agent who's wasting their time monitoring an Irish Republican meeting in 1973.

Notes from ASIO report on Irish republicanism in Sydney:

"This whole Bession was devold of politics, every person at the meeting thoroughly enjoyed himself by singing Irish songs, etc.
There was no interest shown about H.M. The Queen's visit to Sydney and nothing was proposed in the way of demonstrations
to support the Irish Cause generally)."

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 19

I uploaded this old chapter that I co-authored with @drjpersian.bsky.social to academia dot edu and ResearchGate "European and Australian Fascisms: The Case of Ferenc Molnar and National Socialism in Cold War Australia" www.academia.edu/168897370/Eu... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 18

The only acceptable use of Claude

Claude Makelele, the engine room of Chelsea in the 2000s

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 17

1. Greater Manchester Police Museum A small little room in the city centre, left to my own devices with police annual reports and such. But this mannequin was in the corner of the reading room.

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 15

15 June 1974 is a significant date in British anti-fascist history. A protestor was killed in a demonstration against the National Front at Red Lion Square, while the NUS held an emergency conference to confirm its 'no platform' policy. Read about it here: hatfulofhistory.com/2019/06/16/1...

Cover of IMG pamphlet, 'Fascism: Smash It Now!' with sub-heading, 'the case for "no platform"'

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 14

During the final qualifying rounds for the 1966 World Cup in England, the UK government were concerned about the potential involvement of North Korea. North Korea had to play Australia, which the UK Foreign Office believed that Australia would win. North Korea defeated Australia 9-2 on aggregate.

North Korean participation in the World Football Cup.
News Department have had an enquiry
from
a Reuter
correspondent on the
issues
raised by
the North Korean team in the
World Football Cup competition.
These
eemsat first sight an academic point, since che North Koreans are unlikely to
get very far in have been
this
competition, but I
in touch with the Football
Association who inform me that the team has to survive only two more matches of the qualifying series, both against Australia, before coming to this country
for the Final Series in July.
2. The matches against Australia are to take place in June. venues are:
The possible
(11) to tetree and As al:
on neutral grounds,
which
include grounds in
could
the U.K.;
(111) on U.K. grounds.

It is up to the teams themselves to decide where they play. If they play in the U.K., the winners would normally stay here till the Final Series.
3. The F.A. consider that• Australia is likely to win the qualifying matches but since both sides are not particularly strong it is difficult to forecast whether or not we are going to be involved in a tricky situation, Fortunately the Republic of Korea has withdrawn from the
competition, so we will not have the difficulty of having two teams here claiming to represent Korea.

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 13

England bringing football ‘home’ at the 1996 Euros

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 13

What I think of whenever I see a mention of the USMNT

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 12

In October 1988, Simon Watney interviewed David Hockney for Marxism Today journal, with the interview featuring in the infamous 'New Times' issue. It has been digitised by the Amiel and Melburn Trust. banmarchive.org.uk/marxism-toda...

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 12

This article from the Communist Party of Great Britain’s Morning Star newspaper at the beginning of the 1966 World Cup in England is quite interesting on this perspective.

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 12

Swimming against 30 years of discourse but I think the phrase 'football's coming home' originated at the 1966 World Cup because the tournament was being held in England (the supposed 'home' of football), rather than the trophy being won by England. See Times article from 1966.

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 12

When you don’t get invited to the Group Chat

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 11

Happy June the 12th!

Still from The Young Ones, with Dawn French as the Easter Bunny and Mike the Cool Person (Christopher Ryan) holding an Easter egg, looking on quizzically

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 11

Me: My critiques of this work are so damning! The reality:

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 7

On 7 June 1934, the British Union of Fascists held a rally at Olympia, which saw violence meted out against anti-fascist hecklers who infiltrated the crowd. This began a summer of anti-fascists activity, which also highlighted the violent tactics of the BUF. hatfulofhistory.com/2018/09/09/f...

Front cover of pamphlet:

FASCISTS AT OLYMPIA

STATEMENTS FROM:-THE INJURED,
DOCTORS WHO ATTENDED THE INJURED, AND FROM EYEWITNESSES, INCLUDING MR. GEOFFREY LLOYD, M.P.
Mr. GERALD BARRY
MR. A. E. COPPARD MR. A. J. CUMMINGS
Mr. ALDOUS HUXLEY
THE VERY REV. H. R. L. SHEPPARD
MISS VERA BRITTAIN
PRICE 6d. NET

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 4

“June 4, 1976. The Sex PistoIs pIay Manchester for the very first time. There are onIy 42 peopIe in the audience but every singIe one of them is feeding on a power, an energy and a magic. Inspired, they wiII go out and perform wondrous deeds.” Tony Wilson/Steve Coogan, 24 Hour Party People

Still from 24 Hour Party People in scene from Sex Pistols gig at Lesser Free Trade Hall. Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson and Shirley Henderson as Lindsay Wilson.

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 4

It doesn’t matter whether you follow them or not, those blue tick American accounts will pop up in your feed anyway. You’re doomed!

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 3

You don't like the old glitchcore, eh?

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 2

Krytren > Dostoyevsky

Evan@evansmithhist· Jun 2

Got a notification that my article on ASIO's surveillance of the Australian women's liberation movement in the 1970s is currently 'trending' for Australian Feminist Studies journal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When the Personal Became Too Political: ASIO and the
Monitoring of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Australia
Evan Smith
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
ABSTRACT
In the oﬃcial history of the Australian Security Intelligence
Organisation (ASIO), there is only one mention of the women’s
liberation movement, amongst a collection of other social
movements that emerged in Australia in the late 1960s and early
1970s, alongside the anti-Vietnam War and Aboriginal rights
movements. However, we know from ﬁles released by the
National Archives of Australia that ASIO heavily monitored the
women’s liberation movement in Australia, just as it did with most
social and protest movements that existed at the time. Concerned
about the crossover between the women’s liberation movement
and other protest movements, ASIO were particularly worried
about the entry of the various far left groups, such as
Communists, Trotskyists and Maoists, into the women’s liberation
movement, even though these groups were very much divided
about the issue of women’s rights during this period. This article
examines the ASIO ﬁles on the Australian women’s liberation
movement and the anxiety that the authorities felt about the
‘threat’ of the personal becoming too politicised.

Evan@evansmithhist· May 31

Footage is a bit grainy but saw a koala cross the road and climb a tree while on campus today!

Evan@evansmithhist· May 27

Here are the book reviews (part 2)