Steven King
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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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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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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…
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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,…
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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…