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Charities, volunteering and civil society
- England's early 'Big Society': parish welfare under the Old Poor Law
Lorie Charlesworth (November 2010) - The Big Society': civic participation and the state in modern Britain
Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nicholas Crowson and Jean-Francois Mouhot (June 2010) - The legal profession and social activism: the Italian 'long 1968'
Maria Malatesta (February 2010) - Remember Cable Street? Wrong battle, mate
David Cesarani (November 2009) - Economic downturns and the voluntary sector: what can we learn from historical evidence?
John Mohan and Karl Wilding (April 2009) - Social housing and tenant participation
Peter Shapely (March 2008) - Trade unions and the law - history and a way forward?
James G. Moher (September 2007) - Anarchism and the welfare state: the Peckham Health Centre
David Goodway (May 2007) - Hospital governance and community involvement in Britain: evidence from before the National Health Service
Martin Gorsky (February 2006) - Alternatives to money lenders? Credit unions and their discontents
Sean O'Connell (May 2005) - Britain's police forces: forever removed from democratic control?
Chris A. Williams (November 2003) - Trade unions: a foundation of political pluralism?
Alastair J. Reid (May 2002)
Climate change and environment
- Low carbon futures and high carbon pasts: policy challenges in historical perspective
Paul Warde (December 2010) - Hosepipes, history and a sustainable future
Vanessa Taylor and Frank Trentmann (July 2008) - Facing the challenge of climate change: energy efficiency and energy consumption
Paul Warde (October 2007) - Rationing returns: a solution to global warming?
Mark Roodhouse (March 2007)
Consumers, buying and retailing
- Hosepipes, history and a sustainable future
Vanessa Taylor and Frank Trentmann (July 2008) - Regulating UK Supermarkets: an oral history perspective
Jane Hamlett, Alexander Andrews, Adrian R. Bailey and Gareth Shaw (April 2008)
Criminal justice and law reform
- Understanding terrorism and radicalisation: a network approach
Paul Ormerod and Andrew P. Roach (October 2010) - The legal profession and social activism: the Italian 'long 1968'
Maria Malatesta (February 2010) - Historical myth-making in juvenile justice policy
Abigail Wills (July 2007) - Wolfenden and beyond: the remaking of homosexual history
Jeffrey Weeks (February 2007) - Paying the price again: prostitution policy in historical perspective
Julia Laite (October 2006)
Culture & Media
- Monitoring the popular press: an historical perspective
Adrian Bingham (May 2005)
Economy, taxation & finance
- British and American banking in historical perspective: beware of false precedents
Ranald Michie and Simon Mollan (December 2011) - A stable currency in search of a stable Empire? The Austro-Hungarian experience of monetary union
Richard Roberts (October 2011) - History and the financial crisis
Martin Daunton (July 2011) - Trustworthy economics
Geoffrey Hosking (April 2011) - Crisis and recovery: historical perspectives on the Coalition's economic policies
Peter Cain and Scott Newton (March 2011) - De-globalization and the search for economic security
Jim Tomlinson (February 2011) - How (not) to cut government spending and reduce public sector debt
Glen O'Hara (December 2009) - The history of tax havens
Ronen Palan (November 2009) - Economic downturns and the voluntary sector: what can we learn from historical evidence?
John Mohan and Karl Wilding (April 2009) - Gordon Brown and the 'credit crunch' in historical perspective
Richard Toye (February 2009) - The 'credit crunch' and the importance of trust
Geoffrey Hosking (October 2008) - How to talk about redistribution: a historical perspective
Ben Jackson (September 2008) - Hitting Northern Rock bottom: lessons from nineteenth-century British banking
Edmund Rogers (October 2007) - Alternatives to money lenders? Credit unions and their discontents
Sean O'Connell (May 2005) - Equality and incentive: fiscal politics from Gladstone to Brown
Martin Daunton (May 2002)
Education
- The role of government in determining the school history curriculum: lessons from Australia
Robert Guyver (April 2011) - The 'Idea of a University' today
Robert Anderson (March 2010) - Tackling truancy: why have the millions invested not paid off?
Nicola Sheldon (February 2009) - Going to university: funding, costs, benefits
Carol Dyhouse (August 2007) - Knowledge and the gendered curriculum: the problematisation of girls' achievement
Michèle Cohen (October 2004)
Equality
- 'Fraudulent' disability in historical perspective
David M. Turner (February 2012) - Unequal Britain: equalities in Britain since 1945
Pat Thane (March 2010) - Stereotypes and the state: Britain's travellers past and present
Becky Taylor (June 2008) - Wolfenden and beyond: the remaking of homosexual history
Jeffrey Weeks (February 2007) - Policing the Windrush generation
James Whitfield (September 2006)
Families and children
- 'Happy Families?' history and policy
Pat Thane (October 2010) - History and hyperactivity: the Feingold diet
Matthew Smith (May 2008) - Is it futile to try to get non-resident fathers to maintain their children?
Tanya Evans (October 2006) - The Child Support Agency and the Old Poor Law
Thomas Nutt (October 2006) - No turning back: family forms and sexual mores in modern Britain
Hera Cook (November 2003)
Global economy and development
- A stable currency in search of a stable Empire? The Austro-Hungarian experience of monetary union
Richard Roberts (October 2011) - History and the financial crisis
Martin Daunton (July 2011) - China, globalisation and the west: A British debate, 1890 - 1914
Peter Cain (July 2009) - The right of registration: development, identity registration and social security
Simon Szreter (March 2007) - The real lesson for developing countries from the history of the developed world: 'freedom to choose'
Ha-Joon Chang (August 2003) - World trade and world disease
Sheldon Watts (May 2002)
History in practice
- Historians in post-conflict societies: Northern Ireland after the Troubles
Cillian McGrattan (March 2011) - Today's toughest policy problems: how history can help
Mel Porter and Alastair J. Reid (May 2010) - Why history matters - and why medieval history also matters
John Arnold (November 2008) - How history matters now
Ludmilla Jordanova (November 2008) - Why history matters
John Tosh (November 2008) - History and national identity: why they should remain divorced
Stefan Berger (November 2007) - History and policy at work in the Treasury, 1957-76
Peter J. Beck (October 2006) - In defence of applied history: the History and Policy website
John Tosh (February 2006) - The place of history in public life
Quentin Skinner (November 2005) - Conference Report: Political pressure and the archival record
Mike Steemson - Health and wealth
Simon Szreter (November 2005)
International affairs and security
- Winning 'hearts and minds': American imperial designs of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Adam D. Burns (October 2011) - Afghanistan's armies, past and present
Stephanie Cronin (July 2010) - The legal profession and social activism: the Italian 'long 1968'
Maria Malatesta (February 2010) - Upgrading Britain's nuclear deterrent: from V-Bombers to Trident replacement
Matthew Grant (September 2009) - China, globalisation and the west: A British debate, 1890 - 1914
Peter Cain (July 2009) - Torture and intelligence gathering in Western democracies
Calder Walton (October 2008) - Genocide: twentieth-century warnings for the twenty-first century
Lisa Pine (January 2008) - The prime minister as world statesman
David Reynolds (January 2008) - History and national identity: why they should remain divorced
Stefan Berger (November 2007) - The French Socialists and the legacy of a fragmented left
Pamela Pilbeam (June 2007) - Nicolas Sarkozy and France, May 2007: a historical perspective
Robert Tombs (May 2007) - When affirmative action was white
Ira Katznelson (November 2005) - The Palestine peace process: unlearned lessons of history
Ilan Pappe (May 2005) - Spiritual security in Putin's Russia
Julie Elkner (January 2005) - Intelligence analysis needs to look backwards before looking forward
Christopher Andrew (June 2004) - Iraq, past, present and future: a thoroughly-modern mandate?
Beverley Milton-Edwards (May 2003) - Don't expect democracy this time: Japan and Iraq
John W. Dower (April 2003)
Local government and services
- England's early 'Big Society': parish welfare under the Old Poor Law
Lorie Charlesworth (November 2010) - Social housing and tenant participation
Peter Shapely (March 2008) - The hidden history of housing
Colin Ward (September 2004) - From Herbert Morrison to command and control: the decline of local democracy
Jerry White (April 2004) - A central role for local government? the example of late Victorian Britain
Simon Szreter (May 2002)
Medicine and public health
- Putting pandemics in perspective
Mark Honigsbaum (October 2011) - Wine, supermarkets and British alcohol policy
James Nicholls (January 2011) - Feeding babies in the 21st Century: Breast is still best, but for new reasons
Lawrence Weaver (July 2009) - History and hyperactivity: the Feingold diet
Matthew Smith (May 2008) - Binge drinking and moral panics: historical parallels?
Peter Borsay (September 2007) - Smoking and the sea change in public health, 1945-2007
Virginia Berridge (June 2007) - Anarchism and the welfare state: the Peckham Health Centre
David Goodway (May 2007) - Current and future alcohol policy: the relevance of history
Virginia Berridge (February 2006) - Lessons for food-safety policy from the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak, 1964
David Smith (November 2005) - Medical science and public policy: handling uncertainty, managing transparency
Eileen Rubery (May 2003) - Safe meat and healthy animals: BSE and Bovine TB
Keir Waddington (May 2002) - Patients' rights: from Alder Hey to the Nuremberg Code
Elizabeth T. Hurren (May 2002)
Migration & nationality
- The return of the gangmaster
Jeremy Burchardt and Philip Conford (September 2011) - Immigration and the National Health Service: putting history to the forefront
Stephanie Snow and Emma Jones (March 2011) - What Does It Mean To Be British? Belfast and Liverpool's Experiences of Adaptation and Reaction, 1880-1921
Gareth Jenkins (March 2011) - Historians in post-conflict societies: Northern Ireland after the Troubles
Cillian McGrattan (March 2011) - Remember Cable Street? Wrong battle, mate
David Cesarani (November 2009) - Myths about migration: historical and philosophical perspectives
Melissa Lane (February 2006) - Identity cards in Britain: past experience and policy implications
Jon Agar (November 2005)
NHS
- Immigration and the National Health Service: putting history to the forefront
Stephanie Snow and Emma Jones (March 2011) - Coalition policy towards the NHS: past contexts and current trajectories
Martin Gorsky (January 2011) - Doctors in Whitehall: medical advisers at the 60th anniversary of the NHS
Sally Sheard (May 2008) - Hospital governance and community involvement in Britain: evidence from before the National Health Service
Martin Gorsky (February 2006) - The past and future of the NHS: New Labour and foundation hospitals
John Mohan (June 2003) - Financing health care in Britain since 1939
Rodney Lowe (May 2002)
Pensions and ageing
- The care of older people in Japan: myths and realities of family 'care'
Mayumi Hayashi (June 2011) - Politics and pensions in post-war Britain
Hugh Pemberton (March 2006) - The 'scandal' of women's pensions in Britain: how did it come about?
Pat Thane (March 2006) - In search of security: earnings-related pensions in Britain and Europe
Noel Whiteside (May 2003) - The work-life balance in an ageing society
Pat Thane (May 2002)
Policing and emergency services
- Policing the Windrush generation
James Whitfield (September 2006) - Britain's police forces: forever removed from democratic control?
Chris A. Williams (November 2003) - 'Our fire and rescue service': a local, regional or national responsibility?
Shane Ewen (May 2004)
Political institutions and ideas
- 'The new politics': parliamentary lobbying, public procurement and political reform
Craig Paterson (September 2011) - Redrawing the boundaries of British democracy? Census data and the Great Reform Act, 1832-2011
Stephen Thompson (March 2011) - Electoral reform dilemmas: are single-member constituencies out of date?
Matthew Roberts (February 2011) - The Victorian information age: nineteenth century answers to today's information policy questions?
Toni Weller (June 2010) - The Big Society': civic participation and the state in modern Britain
Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nicholas Crowson and Jean-Francois Mouhot (June 2010) - The power of the Prime Minister
Andrew Blick and George Jones (June 2010) - What next for Gordon Brown?
Kevin Theakston (May 2010) - The 1909 budget and the destruction of the unwritten British Constitution
Iain McLean (November 2009) - The hustings, broadcasters and the future of British democracy
Jon Lawrence (May 2009) - Gordon Brown and the 'credit crunch' in historical perspective
Richard Toye (February 2009) - Two Cheers for Democracy: involvement and interest in British politics since 1918
Kevin Jefferys (December 2008) - How to talk about redistribution: a historical perspective
Ben Jackson (September 2008) - A necessary complexity: history and public-management reform
Tony Cutler (December 2007) - The 'Department of the Prime Minister' - should it continue?
Andrew Blick and George Jones (June 2007) - Aberfan: no end of a lesson
Iain McLean (February 2007) - What is to be done with the second chamber?
Jon Lawrence (January 2007) - Ostracism: selection and de-selection in ancient Greece
Paul Cartledge (July 2006) - Empire and development: the fall of the Roman west
Peter Heather (June 2006) - Make poverty history: Debate
Frank Trentmann (May 2005) - Make poverty history: Response
Gareth Stedman Jones (May 2005) - Democratisation: historical lessons from the British case
John Garrard (May 2004) - The animal cause and its greater traditions
Chien-hui Li (April 2004) - Ulster Unionism and a sense of history
John Bew (November 2003)
Science and technology
- The Victorian information age: nineteenth century answers to today's information policy questions?
Toni Weller (June 2010) - The 'Haldane Principle' and other invented traditions in science policy
David Edgerton (July 2009)
Trade unions and employment
- The Osborne Judgement 1909: trade union funding of political parties in historical perspective
James G. Moher (December 2009) - Trade unions and the law - history and a way forward?
James G. Moher (September 2007) - Trade unions: a foundation of political pluralism?
Alastair J. Reid (May 2002)