How we did it : Getting the Kelso Cochrane file released : a thread 🧵on FOI and The National Archives Martin Rosenbaum Meirion Jones Christopher Sambrook plashmar rob evans Robert Hutton Sonia Purnell Richard Burgess Ben Fenton

The moment #London #gangster Jack Spot, his associates Sonny The Yank, Moishe Blueball, Little Hymie and Solly The Turk, and many others went for the Blackshirts assembling on Tower Hill for the march to Cable Street courtesy of a German press photographer. #CableStreet

A paen of praise for the Tam and her colleagues British Library Boston Spa, and Nicholas of the Humanities Reference Team at St Pancras who've helped me find the weekly Racing Calendar. The hack has been such a pain, but the stronger ties with the excellent BL staff is a boon.

"Ten East End Boys Had a Tangerine Orgy," Evening News, 20 Jan. 1947. What a headline! Had to stop the microfilm reader to see what it was about. The boys stole boxes of apples and tangerines from a lorry in Bethnal Green then gobbled them. Clickbait publishers take note.

Interviewee: So I said, “What do you want?” He said, “Anytime.” I said, “Anytime!” Bomp! Down he is, where they piss, with his head in the piss. And I thought to myself “Shouldn’t have done it. Fuck it.” And I went out. Not your usual oral history testimony, this. #transcribing

Reading a statement from February 1974, I spotted my first "innit" recorded during a police interview the month before. And yes that's Bert Wickstead's signature.

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