Papers by theme
- Climate change and environment
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- Economy, taxation and finance
- Education
- Families and children
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- History in practice
- International affairs and security
- Local government and services
- Medicine and public health
- Migration and nationality
- NHS
- Pensions and ageing
- Policing and emergency services
- Political institutions and ideas
- Trade Unions and employment
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Climate change and environment
- 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
- Regulating UK Supermarkets: an oral history perspective
Jane Hamlett, Alexander Andrews, Adrian R. Bailey and Gareth Shaw (April 2008)
Criminal justice and law reform
- 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
- 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
- Going to university: funding, costs, benefits
Carol Dyhouse (August 2007) - Knowledge and the gendered curriculum: the problematisation of girls' achievement
Michèle Cohen (October 2004)
Families and children
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Genocide: twentieth-century warnings for the twenty-first century
Lisa Pine (January 2008) - The prime minister as world statesman
David Reynolds (January 2008) - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A necessary complexity: history and public-management reform
Tony Cutler - 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)
Trade unions and employment
- 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)
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