Welfare Policy
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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 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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Roundtable: Britain’s Sicknote Culture
In this episode, first recorded in September 2024, Steven King and Cat Gower are joined by historians Dr Geoff Monks…
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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…