Welfare Policy
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Disability, Health, and Employment: Post-Industrial Realities and Historical Lessons for Welfare Policy
2026 marks the fourth annual iteration of Nottingham Trent University’s History and Policy seminar series organised by Professor Steven King.…
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The pre-1834 workhouse revisited
Nottingham Trent University, in partnership with the AHRC project ‘In Their Own Write’, The National Archives and the Workhouse Network…
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Monitoring the localities: the Poor Law Inspectorate and barriers to control
Nottingham Trent University, in partnership with the AHRC project ‘In Their Own Write’, The National Archives and the Workhouse Network…
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Welsh Women Poor Law Guardians and the Workhouse, 1869–1928
Nottingham Trent University, in partnership with the AHRC project ‘In Their Own Write’, The National Archives and the Workhouse Network…
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“Weak Minded and a Cripple”: Disability and Persistence in Manchester’s Workhouses
Nottingham Trent University, in partnership with the AHRC project ‘In Their Own Write’, The National Archives and the Workhouse Network…
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“He’s just a pauper whom nobody owns”: pauper burials and the public history of the workhouse in Ulster
Nottingham Trent University, in partnership with the AHRC project ‘In Their Own Write’, The National Archives and the Workhouse Network…
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To the ends of empire: the migration of Belfast’s workhouse children to Canada 1900-1914
Nottingham Trent University, in partnership with the AHRC project ‘In Their Own Write’, The National Archives and the Workhouse Network…
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Tyranny observed: Lives under the 19th century poor laws
Nottingham Trent University, in partnership with the AHRC project ‘In Their Own Write’, The National Archives and the Workhouse Network…
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What can Keir Starmer’s Labour learn from New Labour? Part Two
In the concluding episode of this two-part series, Steven King and Glen O’Hara discuss what can Keir Starmer learn New…
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What can Keir Starmer’s Labour learn from New Labour? Part One
Steven King and Glen O’Hara discuss what lessons Keir Starmer might learn from the last time Labour was in government.