Very glad to see Leigh Shaw-Taylor’s team getting national recognition for their extraordinary work transforming our understanding of the industrial revolution. Now political and cultural historians need to think through the implications. theguardian.com/education/2024…

*** extended deadline*** a fully funded PhD, cohosted between Sheffield and Save the Children, on the history of trade unions and humanitarian NGOs. please share far and wide, and tell any interested candidates that I would be happy to chat! wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects-o…

I'll be giving a talk about my book at the LSE on Tuesday at 5, joined by Deborah James and Adam Kuper. Please do come along if you're in London

What has PopCon got to do with Conservative traditions? Here were some of my initial thoughts for LSE British Politics and Policy
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Nice to see my article on 1940s Tiger Bay, as seen through the eyes of the anthropologist St Clair Drake, published open access in Journal of British Studies today

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#OTDIH , passage of the Representation of the People Act (1918) granted the vote to women over 30 who met property reqs. Full suffrage would be another decade away, but what led to this moment?

We revisit L. Mayhall’s “Defining Militancy” to find out more
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[ominous] power of ideas: reading the PhD thesis (Sorbonne economics, 1959) of Kheiu Samphan, Khmer Rouge leader and Pol Pot right hand man till the very end...

'We need a policy of doing better, not falsely claiming to be the best. We desperately need a more modest politics, a politics of improvement and imitation, rather than one of rhetorical excess and deepening social misery.' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ne…