Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood (TRIH ep 606)
1968 · Resource
This episode examines the life, politics and legacy of John Enoch Powell, centering on his notorious "Rivers of Blood" speech delivered at the Midland Hotel, Birmingham on 20 April 1968. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace Powell’s intellectual formation as a brilliant classicist and scholar, his wartime service, entry into postwar Conservative politics, and his evolution into a vociferous critic of immigration and of Britain’s post‑imperial trajectory.
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Around 1968
- Prague Spring (1968)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- The Beatles (1960)