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Regulating UK Supermarkets: an oral history perspective
Jane Hamlett, Andrew Alexander, Adrian R. Bailey and Gareth Shaw investigate the history of the supermarket and shoppers' responses
Published: April 2008
Social housing and tenant participation
Peter Shapely shows that tenants must be involved in planning social housing, if the problems of the past are not to be repeated.
Published: March 2008
Genocide: twentieth-century warnings for the twenty-first century
Lisa Pine argues that despite adopting the global slogan 'Never Again' after the Holocaust, the international community failed to learn the lessons of twentieth century genocides.
Published: January 2008
The prime minister as world statesman
David Reynolds considers the lessons of history for modern diplomacy.
Published: January 2008