Mostly reading books around the issue of national decline, cultural rot, loss of traditions and the British Old New Left, while unpicking Whig history.
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ALT Quote card: "A friend who had settled in England had written and told him he would not only get a chance to play jazz but also to make lots of money." (Floella Benjamin, Coming to England)
ALT Quote card: "How it is, that it have women, no matter how bad a man is, they would still hold on to him and love him?" (Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners)
ALT Quote card: "…‘the commons of Kent broke down a brothel, occupied by Flemish women who had farmed it from the mayor of London’." (Anonimalle Chronicle, Flemish Textile Workers in England, 1331-1400)
ALT Quote card: "In Jamaica, 41 per cent of the people were under 16, with little work in view." (Mr Pilgrim, British Caribbean Welfare Service (reported), Coloured People in Great Britain: Summary of press news and comment, September 1958)
ALT Quote card: "In every shop there were one or two men who were friendly with the management. They were touts for the foremen. They would find men who wanted a job and would take them to the foreman. To get a job, you had to give a bribe, and the foreman would split it with the tout. Everyone was afraid that the touts would tell the foreman who had organized the union and then the foremen would give them the sack." (A Punjabi worker at Woolf's, as paraphrased by DeWitt John, Indian Workers' Associations in Britain, 1969, p.139)
ALT Quote card: "They were promised a ‘Home fit for heroes to live in’ so were we?" (Veteran (survey), The Unknown Warriors)
ALT Quote card: "Crom… was a gloomy, savage god, and he hated weaklings. But he gave a man courage at birth, and the will and might to kill his enemies, which, in the Cimmerian’s mind, was all any god should be expected to do." (Robert E. Howard, Robert E Howard Collected Works)
ALT Quote card: "At one time there were plans to pull our old house down and build a slum. But they haven’t." (Johnny Speight, Johnny Speight It Stands to Reason)
ALT Quote card: "…being a labourer in England couldn’t be any worse than being a labourer in Jamaica." (Windrush passenger, Windrush: 75 years of Modern Britain)
ALT Quote card: "By the 1920s Indians could enter most British colonies but access into the White Dominions was restricted." (Gurharpal Singh & Darshan Singh Tatla, Sikhs in Britain)
