Blog
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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
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Ideas in Politics in International Context
How we might rethink the study of ‘ideas in politics’ in modern Britain.
- Political Parties
- Immigration
- Human Rights
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The Future of British Political History: Concluding Remarks
How can historians maintain an effective presence in public debate about politics in Britain? And how should political historians position themselves within the discipline?
- Political Parties
- Parliament
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Diversifying British Political History
Demonstrating the possibilities of diversification as a way to enliven political history's future.
- Racism & Antisemitism
- Decolonisation
- Human Rights
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Towards the Vernacular, Away from Politics? Political History after the ‘New Political History’
How modern British political history has changed since the ‘new political history’ of the 1990s.
- Parliament
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Environment & Climate Change
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New Labour in Power: Five Problems of Contemporary History
An opportunity to reappraise New Labour as history.
- Political Parties
- Progressive Politics
- Labour Party
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The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History
British political history has a major blind spot when it comes to race.
- Equality
- Racism & Antisemitism
- Human Rights
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The OBR and the March 2023 Budget: The Travails of UK Economic Growth and the Politics of Technocratic Fiscal Governance
Placing the Office for Budget Responsibility's commentary on the March 2023 UK Budget in political context.
- Conservative Party
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Parliament
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Building a More United Kingdom: A Conservative Case for Constitutional Reform
The twin constitutional crises facing the United Kingdom.
- Devolution
- Constitution
- Parliament
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Review: Emergency State. How we Lost our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters, by Adam Wagner
A book full of detail about the level of authoritarian restrictions implemented during the pandemic.
- Covid-19
- Human Rights
