Admiralty Arch for sale: building a biography
by Fiona Ferbrache My Great Aunt was a ‘Jenny’ – a member of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) – and, as a First Officer, she worked in Admiralty Arch, the Grade I listed building that straddles...
View ArticleShock of the Global: Post-War Britain and Globalisation
A ‘make do and mend’ poster, c.1942. by Benjamin Sacks The Second World War permanently altered Britain’s relationship with the rest of the globe. Before 1939 the empire, particularly India and the...
View ArticleAusterity will increase the North South health divide
By Clare Bambra and Kayleigh Garthwaite, Durham University We were told by the Coalition government that we are “all in it together” and that recession, austerity, cuts to welfare and the privatisation...
View ArticleUnderstanding the impact of austerity
By Morag Rose, University of Sheffield Closed all hours This shop, now disused, located in the small village of Ballyroan: Image credit: (c) Liam Murphy Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0...
View ArticleOut of the ashes, the phoenix of the parish rises again
By Jane Wills, University of Exeter, UK The arrival of the coronavirus has brutally revealed the importance of having good government. Our lives now depend upon the readiness, capacity, and leadership...
View Article‘I don’t think I can cope financially’ – the people putting off parenthood...
By Sarah Marie Hall, University of Manchester This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Britain’s birth rates are plunging. The...
View ArticleAusterity led to twice as many excess UK deaths as previously thought –...
By Danny Dorling, University of Oxford This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Cuts to public services and living standards...
View ArticleAusterity gutted the welfare state – preserving benefits now can’t make up...
By Anna Barford, University of Cambridge and Mia Gray, University of Cambridge This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Many...
View ArticleAusterity has its own life – here’s how it lives on in future generations
By Sarah Marie Hall, University of Manchester This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Austerity in the UK is here to stay. The...
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