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October 17th, 2026 marks a 100 years since the death of Sir George Makgill, the first para-politician and a man completely on the wrong side of history. Mike Hughes has recently reviewed, corrected  and filled in the gaps left in his timeline by the few historians who have have written about nim. Click on Sir George to downlaod a pdf of the blog and timelines or read on linehttps://www.webador.com/v2/website/5619969/editor/page/23957910

This the landing page for a web site dedicated to the the history of a now defunct, but scarcely forgotten organisation called "The Economic League",

The web site is intended to be a online resource centre fo investigative historians and researchers with a particular interest in Labour and trade union history, the radical and far right, the political engagement of of big business, and parpolitics. 

The Economic League has become best known for it is highy organised blacklisting industries-wide execercise. When the League ceased to exist in 1993 this aspect of its activity contiued in big construction and it cost them dear in settling at least two substantial group actions for defamation.

But for most of its existence it was better known for its opposition to socialism, disruption of trades unionism properganda for a peculiarlrly nineteent century conservative ideology of unregulated capitalism.

In 1992 Mike Hughes published “Spies at Work” it was then, anf remains one of the most authoritatuve works on the Economic League, from its foundation in 1919 to its demise in 1993.

The web site is intended to be a online resource centre fo investigative historians and researchers with a particular interest in Labour and trade union history, the radical and far right, the political engagement of of big business, and parpolitics. 

The Economic League has become best known for it is highy organised blacklisting industries-wide execercise. When the League ceased to exist in 1993 this aspect of its activity contiued in big construction and it cost them dear in settling at least two substantial group actions for defamation.

But for most of its existence it was better known for its opposition to socialism, disruption of trades unionism properganda for a peculiarlrly nineteent century conservative ideology of unregulated capitalism.

In 1992 Mike Hughes published “Spies at Work” it was then, anf remains one of the most authoritatuve works on the Economic League, from its foundation in 1919 to its demise in 1993. ibvestigative historian in the fire of

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