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Terry Irving

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Radical History: Thinking, Writing And Engagement, Terry Irving, Rowan Cahill Feb 2016

Radical History: Thinking, Writing And Engagement, Terry Irving, Rowan Cahill

Terry Irving

This is an extended review of 'Radical Newcastle' (NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2015), edited by James Bennett, Nancy Cushing and Erik Ecklund. We criticise the book's neglect of the tradition of radical history writing and the recent radical scholarship on cities. We reveal its roots in academic empiricism and the liberal academic culture. Nonetheless there are some excellent chapters that embrace radical history positions.

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‘Labour History And Its Political Role – A New Landscape’, Terence H. Irving Aug 2014

‘Labour History And Its Political Role – A New Landscape’, Terence H. Irving

Terry Irving

As I was thinking about what to say today I read an article on Manning Clark and found something that made me pause. It was a description of our venerable journal, Labour History, but characterizing it in terms that none of us would use, at least not in public. Instead of describing our field, our sources or our methods, our long list of illustrious contributors, it said that Labour History was the journal of Australia’s left-wing historians. Well, this was in Wikipedia – but nonetheless it struck me that, yes, this is a truth I am prepared to accept. I’m …

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