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Upcoming conference on the Social History of Learning Disability
The Social History of Learning Disability (SHLD) Research Group, based at The Open University, will be holding their upcoming 30th anniversary conference on the Social History of Learning Disability on 9-10 July 2025 at the… Read more
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Regional (In)equalities: The British Academy’s Latest Policy Histories publication
The British Academy has launched its latest publication as part of its Policy Histories series on the history of regional development policy in the UK. Comprising of 9 essays by historians, sociologists and geographers (including… Read more
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New Publication: Circulation, Containment and the Nineteenth-Century Institution
Check out our latest publication: E. Hurren and S. A. King, ‘Circulation, circularity and the “place” of institutions in nineteenth-century England and Wales’, in C. Beardmore (ed.), Navigating the Nineteenth-Century Institution (Newcastle, 2024), 177-202. Here… Read more
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Launching Policy Factory
Today we launch Policy Factory, a collective of historians, sociologists and others who have come together for three reasons. First, a shared sense that the deep history of modern dilemmas generally matters for understanding our… Read more
Lessons From the Past for Policy Futures