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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
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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
