Professor Matthew Hughes on 'The Arab Revolt in Palestine in the 1930s' |
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Next talk to be hosted by the Ealing branch of the Historical Association
March 5, 2024 The subject for the next talk from the Ealing branch of the Historical Association is a timely one. It is to be given by Professor Matthew Hughes of Brunel University and is titled, ‘The Arab Revolt in Palestine in the 1930s’. The lecture takes place on Tuesday 12 March, 7.30 pm at Ealing Green Church, The Green (W5 5QT) with doors open form 7.15pm. Professor Hughes says that Britain’s crushing of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt against Jewish immigration to and British rule in Mandate Palestine was at heart an administrative war by an Emergency State. Military search-and-sweep operations after 1936 played second fiddle to systemic (and systematic) politico-legal pacification of the whole country by an undemocratic colonial government. His latest book is Britain's Pacification of Palestine: the British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 (CUP 2019, paperback edition 2020). Visitors are welcome with a suggested donation of £5 per talk and no charge for students. You can become a member of either the national organisation of the Historical Association (which includes local membership) for £65 per year (£43 concessions) or a local member for just £15 a year. You will then receive regular emails or newsletters about the association’s activities. For more details of the association’s programme of talks for the coming season visit its web site.
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