Enoch Powell Speaks for Britain’
The Press, the Public and the Speech
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10356839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dominic Sandbrook (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 392-399 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Political Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3179 • E-ISSN: 1467-923X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-923x.12552 |
| OpenAlex | W2887882636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article explores popular reactions to Enoch Powell's speech in Birmingham on 20 April 1968. It describes the protests by sympathetic workers, such as the Smithfield meat porters, and the responses of the press, both nationally and in the West Midlands. It considers the speech's impact on immigrants themselves and it makes the case that Powell's real significance was as an early champion of a particular kind of anti‐Establishment populism, which has now become a very familiar feature of our political landscape
Art history · Champion · Hickey · Immigration · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |