Extreme Right Explainer: What is an extreme right ‘dog whistle’?
This short blog gives an overview of how dog whistles, or coded messages, are commonly found in far and extreme right politics.
30 March 2026
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Extreme Right Contexts: British Brothers’ League and Migration Anxiety
Paul Jackson reflects on the role of anxiety as a key emotion in extreme right politics around migration.
9 March 2026
Medievalists Against the Extreme Right: Online Workshop
Details of the first MATER workshop of 2026 on how we approach teaching medieval antisemitism in the modern classroom, which will be held on Tuesday 24 February
4 February 2026
Gerry Gable: A Personal Reflection
In this short blog, Professor Paul Jackson reflects on some personal memories of Gerry Gable, who sadly passed away in January 2026.
19 January 2026
The Crusades and the online far right
In this blog, William Hatfield discusses how medieval themes are found in contemporary online extremist cultures.
4 December 2025
The Extreme Right and its use of the medieval past to inform its profile
In this blog, Siobhán Hyland discusses her recent research into the ways in which British extreme right groups have used the medieval world from 1962-1982.
26 November 2025
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present
Participants for a two-day workshop in June 2026 at the University of Northampton are invited to present working papers related to political nostalgias, past and present.
17 November 2025
Getting Medieval? The Extreme Right and the Distant Past
Rachel Moss introduces her new project, a systematic analysis of archival materials related to the inner workings of the British extreme right in a significant period of change for this…
17 September 2025