History & Policy

📚✍ Please do read what I wrote on OVfM and its predecessors for the excellent @historyandpolicy.bsky.social: historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

The Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War Annual Lecture 2025 @warstudieskcl.bsky.social
this evening was delivered by Dr Halik Kochanski, author of Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939–1945.

Just completed an excellent two-day conference comparing British and Dutch approaches to applied history in government in partnership with a team from Radboud University and with the University of Essex, the first day at @ihr.bsky.social & the second here on Essex’s Colchester campus.

The organisers of a recent witness seminar @ihr.bsky.social on Conservatism and Unionism reflect in this new opinion article on the tensions that emerged in the final third of the twentieth century and their implications for the present. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

The organisers of a recent witness seminar @ihr.bsky.social on Conservatism and Unionism reflect in this new opinion article on the tensions that emerged in the final third of the twentieth century and their implications for the present. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

🎧 Listen to @historyandpolicy.bsky.social's Izzy Conn on Matt Forde's Political Party podcast talking about Leading Labour.

Leading Labour is a unique audio documentary series exploring the leadership and legacies of every former post-war Labour Party Leader, from Clement Attlee to Jeremy Corbyn.

The organisers of a recent witness seminar @ihr.bsky.social on Conservatism and Unionism reflect in this new opinion article on the tensions that emerged in the final third of the twentieth century and their implications for the present. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

Mobilising Women’s Workplace Rights: 50 Years of Sex Equality Legislation - History & Policy Women and men gained formal workplace equality on 29 December 1975 when the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts came into force. Incremental change has been achieved slowly across the subsequent 50 ...

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts coming into force, a new policy paper by Louise A Jackson considers the impact of the legislation and suggests more needs to be done to entrench equality in the workplace. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Mobilising Women’s Workplace Rights: 50 Years of Sex Equality Legislation - History & Policy Women and men gained formal workplace equality on 29 December 1975 when the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts came into force. Incremental change has been achieved slowly across the subsequent 50 ...

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts coming into force, a new policy paper by Louise A Jackson considers the impact of the legislation and suggests more needs to be done to entrench equality in the workplace. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Professor Hugh Clegg - His Life and Legacy

Last chance to register for a special online seminar at 5.00pm this evening @ihr.bsky.social when an expert panel will discuss the life and legacy of Professor Hugh Clegg (1920-95) a key figure in the study of post-war British Industrial Relations. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Professor Hugh Clegg - His Life and Legacy

Still time to register for a special online seminar at 5.00pm this Thursday 20 November @ihr.bsky.social when an expert panel will discuss the life and legacy of Professor Hugh Clegg (1920-95) a key figure in the study of post-war British Industrial Relations. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Professor Hugh Clegg - His Life and Legacy

Still time to register for a special online seminar at 5.00pm this Thursday 20 November @ihr.bsky.social when an expert panel will discuss the life and legacy of Professor Hugh Clegg (1920-95) a key figure in the study of post-war British Industrial Relations. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Developing and Writing Funding Applications

Join us next week for this helpful session on developing & writing funding proposals.
Dr Andrew Fairweather-Tall, Director of Research & Innovation @uolondon.bsky.social
Prof Philip Murphy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
@nlwillson.bsky.social IBAR
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Stealth (Tax) Policy and the Widening Racial Wealth Gap in the USA - History & Policy Over the past sixty years, the wealth gap in the USA between the typical White and Black households has more than tripled, even after adjustment for inflation. Tax policies that have remained largely ...

In a new policy paper for us, Robert B Williams argues that tax policies in the US have contributed to widening racial disparities in wealth over the last 60 years, and calls for a fresh approach. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Stealth (Tax) Policy and the Widening Racial Wealth Gap in the USA - History & Policy Over the past sixty years, the wealth gap in the USA between the typical White and Black households has more than tripled, even after adjustment for inflation. Tax policies that have remained largely ...

In a new policy paper for us, Robert B Williams argues that tax policies in the US have contributed to widening racial disparities in wealth over the last 60 years, and calls for a fresh approach. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Professor Hugh Clegg - His Life and Legacy

Join us online at 5.00pm on Thursday 20 November @ihr.bsky.social when an expert panel will discuss the life and legacy of Professor Hugh Clegg (1920-95) a key figure in the study of post-war British Industrial Relations. Register below. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Professor Hugh Clegg - His Life and Legacy

Join us online at 5.00pm on Thursday 20 November @ihr.bsky.social when an expert panel will discuss the life and legacy of Professor Hugh Clegg (1920-95) a key figure in the study of post-war British Industrial Relations. Register below. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Professor Hugh Clegg - His Life and Legacy

Join us online at 5.00pm on Thursday 20 November @ihr.bsky.social when an expert panel will discuss the life and legacy of Professor Hugh Clegg (1920-95) a key figure in the study of post-war British Industrial Relations. Register below. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Trades Union & Employment Forum Conference on Employment Tribunals - History & Policy As the Labour Government's Employment Bill neared the end of its passage through Parliament, History & Policy's Trades Union and Employment Forum organized a special conference examining the history o...

Last Thursday we hosted an excellent conference @ihr.bsky.social on the history of Industrial Tribunals organised by our Trades Union & Employment Forum. My colleague, Roger Jeary, has produced this report on the issues discussed. historyandpolicy.org/as-the-labou...

It was an absolutely brilliant lecture!

In the @ihr.bsky.social Historical Research annual lecture this evening, my colleague @cathamclarke.bsky.social asks ‘can popular History be radical?’ (Short answer - Yes!)

Trades Union & Employment Forum Conference on Employment Tribunals - History & Policy As the Labour Government's Employment Bill neared the end of its passage through Parliament, History & Policy's Trades Union and Employment Forum organized a special conference examining the history o...

Last Thursday we hosted an excellent conference @ihr.bsky.social on the history of Industrial Tribunals organised by our Trades Union & Employment Forum. My colleague, Roger Jeary, has produced this report on the issues discussed. historyandpolicy.org/as-the-labou...

History Day 2025 @ihr.bsky.social is now in full swing.

The concluding round table panel of what has been a really fascinating conference @ihr.bsky.social today on the history of Employment Tribunals organised by our Trades Union & Employment Forum.

Opening session of our Trades Union & Employment Forum conference on Industrial/Employment Tribunals with excellent presentations by Prof Susan Corby and Adrian Williamson QC, ably chaired by Sarah Veale.

From the cold war to today, why espionage cases are so difficult to prosecute Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.

The director of H&P, Philip
Murphy @ihr.bsky.social, has just published this article in @uk.theconversation.com about the risky business of bringing espionage cases to trial. theconversation.com/from-the-col...

From the cold war to today, why espionage cases are so difficult to prosecute Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.

The director of H&P, Philip
Murphy @ihr.bsky.social, has just published this article in @uk.theconversation.com about the risky business of bringing espionage cases to trial. theconversation.com/from-the-col...

From the cold war to today, why espionage cases are so difficult to prosecute Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.

Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.

From the cold war to today, why espionage cases are so difficult to prosecute Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.

The director of H&P, Philip
Murphy @ihr.bsky.social has just published an article in @uk.theconversation.com about the risky business of bringing espionage cases to trial. theconversation.com/from-the-col...

From the cold war to today, why espionage cases are so difficult to prosecute Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.

The director of H&P, Philip
Murphy @ihr.bsky.social has just published an article in @uk.theconversation.com about the risky business of bringing espionage cases to trial. theconversation.com/from-the-col...