I am a great fan of Radio 4’s The Long View, which takes a topical news story and looks to find parallels in the past, and in so doing seeks to explore the modern event.
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| Clifford’s Tower, York, 2010 |
“Mob violence breaks out across the country, with an explosion of hatred directed at minority communities who feel under siege. As British courts process hundreds of those involved in the riots of August 2024, Jonathan Freedland looks back more than 800 years ago when hatred was directed at a different group of outsiders. In the late 1180s, Britain's small Jewish community was targeted by violent mobs in the wake of the coronation of Richard I.
The worst incident was the York Massacre of 1190 in which 150 people died. What are the historical parallels with today's race riots against British Muslims and asylum seekers, and what can be learnt about how to heal communities?
Guests: Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Queen Mary, University of London; Joe Mulhall, Director of Research, Hope Not Hate; Hina Bokhari, Liberal Democrat Member of the London Assembly and Founder, Naz Legacy Foundation
Producers: Dan Hardoon and Luke Mulhall
Reader: John Lightbody”
Picture; Clifford’s Tower, York, Tim Green, 2010, his file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. his image was originally posted to Flickr by Tim Green aka atoach at https://flickr.com/photos/93416311@N00/5259021070. It was reviewed on 8 October 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.
*Race Riots, The Long View, BBC Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021w6y
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