Welfare Reform
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Book launch: Petty Tyranny and Oppression
On 31 July at the National Archives, Kew, Paul Carter and Steven King will be talking about their latest book,…
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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.
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Talking to ‘benefit cheats’: Oral histories from danger to redemption
Professor Steven King presents “Talking to ‘benefit cheats’: Oral histories from danger to redemption” as part of the CRHHMS Centre…
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Steven King discusses Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present
In this episode recorded in September 2024 Steven King and Cat Gower discuss King’s latest book, Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats…
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Why Reeves and Kendall’s Welfare Budget Cuts are doomed to fail
Steven King looks both ahead and to the past when considering Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall’s plans for welfare budget…
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The British Welfare Citizen: Past, Present and Future
What should the rights and balancing duties of the modern welfare citizen be? Steven King looks at the longer history…