Blog
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The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History
The field of British political history is ‘methodologically white’. Black history and critical studies of race offer an antidote.
- Racism & Antisemitism
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The Politics of Unpolitics
Populism grew out of mainstream British political culture, as well as in opposition to it.
- Conservative Party
- Political Parties
- Populism
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Raising the Pension Age
Why has it been rather easy to raise the pension age in the UK?
- Health, Education & Welfare
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The Centre Ground Hypothesis and the Shape of Public Opinion
Despite its vast influence, the ‘centre ground hypothesis’ - the assumption that most people hold moderate political beliefs - has rarely been tested empirically.
- Elections & Campaigning
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Review: Blue Labour. The Politics of the Common Good, by Maurice Glasman
In his new book, Glasman focusses on Blue Labour's economics and how to stimulate the nation's democratic and civic renewal.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Labour Party
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Review: Emergency State. How we Lost our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters, by Adam Wagner
A new book on the human rights impacts of the pandemic, written by a human rights barrister at Doughty Street Chambers.
- Parliament
- Covid-19
- Human Rights
- Courts
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- Work & Trade Unions
- Health, Education & Welfare
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His(Tory): why British History needs Conservatives
British academia is overwhelmingly left-leaning. What impact is this having on British political history?
- Conservative Party
- Labour Party
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Women and the Labour Party: Gender and the Writing of British Political History
Taking stock of the state of women's political history in the twentieth century and suggesting new lines of enquiry.
- Equality
- Feminism & Gender
- Labour Party
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Bringing the Emigration State Back In
The decades between 1948 and 1980 are often remembered as a time of mass immigration, yet almost 2 million more people left Britain than arrived in those years.
- Sovereignty
- Populism
- Racism & Antisemitism
