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History & Policy

H&P is a unique collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary British History at King"s College London and the University of Cambridge. We are the only project in the UK providing access to an international network of more than 500 historians with a broad range of expertise. H&P offers a range of resources for historians, policy makers and journalists.

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Professor Noel Whiteside - Flexible work and its...

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2017/04/07

Nearly one million workers in the UK are on zero-hour contracts. A further five million are nominally self-employed. In modern Britain, flexibility is often presented as a way of reconciling pressures between work and family life. Professor Noel Whiteside, Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the University of Warwick, will approach the subject from the historical perspective. What is now "flexibility" was once "casual labour", and social enquiry revealed the consequences of casual labour

H&P Historians’ launch new book offering a fresh...

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2017/02/25

Professor Peter Ackers and Dr Alastair Reid introduced their edited collection of essays challenging traditional narratives of twentieth century British labour history at King’s College London. The book’s essays explore neglected aspects of working class experience and political awareness over the twentieth century - including religious Nonconformity, self-organisation and left libertarianism - and shows how this diversity has been quashed by a narrative focussing on trade unions, nationalisation,

Birgit Nemec - Heidelberg University

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2017/02/19

The Contested History of Hormone Pregnancy Tests 27 January 2017 - 09:00 am - 17:00 pm Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DF This one-day conference explores the contested history of Primodos, a controversial drug that was used for pregnancy testing in the 1950s-70s, and whether the UK government should have banned it soon after doctors first warned in 1967 that it may have been causing birth defects. Organised by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn with

Merle Wessel - University of Helsinki

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2017/02/19

Eira Bjorvik - University of Oslo

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2017/02/19

Marie Lyon - Association For Children Damaged by...

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2017/02/19

Salim Al Gailani - University of Cambridge

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2017/02/19

Tim Lewens - University of Cambridge

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2017/02/19

Cyrille Jean - Sciences Po

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2017/02/19

John Abraham - King's College London

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2017/02/19

Geoff Hayward, Unite Senior Representative and...

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2016/12/10

Workers in the Boardroom: worker directors and lessons from history 10 December 2016 - 11:00 am - 13:00 pm Lecture Theatre S-1.04, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS "The people who run big businesses are supposed to be accountable to outsiders, to non-executive directors, who are supposed to ask the difficult questions, think about the long-term and defend the interests of shareholders. In practice, they are drawn from the same, narrow social and professional circles as the executive

Professor Michael Gold, Professor of Comparative...

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2016/12/10

Dr Adrian Williamson QC - Workers in the Boardroom

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2016/12/10

Edward Wood, Director of Research, House of Commons...

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2016/12/01

History and the Internet The Internet is a phenomenon studied from a wide variety of academic disciplinary perspectives, from those of sociology, to political science, to psychology, to philosophy. But there is scope for a more thorough application of historical knowledge in this area. This event will seek to provide an historical perspective in order better to appreciate the significance and implications of the Internet. A mixture of academic historians and practitioners from institutions such as

Anthea Seles, The National Archives - History and the...

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2016/12/01

Dr Nishanth Shastry, King's College London - History...

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2016/12/01

Lois Lane, King's College London - History and the...

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2016/12/01

Professor Jason Peacey, UCL - History and the Internet

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2016/12/01

Professor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) - Brexit: past,...

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2016/11/04

Prominent economic and political historians will come together to give their perspectives on what the past can tell us about the future. Has the referendum result changed our constitution irrevocably? How and when will we leave? How are the negotiations likely to work and what are the precedents? What can Britain’s pre-European past tell us about its economic future? Above all, what challenges will Westminster and Whitehall face over the coming years as they address these questions? The

Professor Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) - Brexit: past,...

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2016/11/04

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