Jane Millar (University of Bath) In November 2010 the government published Universal Credit: welfare that works, which set out proposals for [...]
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WELFARE MYTHS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES
Image: Beth Sporne, pincponc2 John Hills (London School of Economics) Britain’s welfare state now accounts for two-thirds of all government spending – [...]
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THE EROSION OF THE UK SAFETY NET
Jonathan Bradshaw, University of York Since the Second World War the living standards of the population of the UK have been [...]
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Queer, Religious, Youth: Still ‘wrestling the angel of contradiction’?
Yvette Taylor and Emily Falconer (London South Bank University) What and where are the spaces for queer religious youth? Who are in [...]
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Claiming LGBTI Human Rights in the Commonwealth after Empire
Matthew Waites (University of Glasgow) Is the Commonwealth, despite its origins in British imperialism, a suitable organisation to utilise for human [...]
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Food austerity from an historical perspective: Making sense of 1950s Mass Observation data in the contemporary era
Image: Imperial War Museum Rebecca O’Connell, Abigail Knight and Julia Brannen (UCL Institute of Education, London) The use of the past as [...]
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Uneven and Dammed Development in Burma’s Paunglaung Valley
Photo: The exposed tip of the Ywar Gyi Village pagoda and the top floor of the village monastery, part of [...]
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Crises in care – compassion and body work
Image: Francisco Martins CC BY-NC 2.0 Rachel Lara Cohen (City University) The news in 2014 was regularly punctuated with stories of care [...]
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Well-being: a valid concept or a vague panacea?
Alyson Learmonth (Independent Public Health Consultant) In September 2014 the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England published her Annual Report ‘Public [...]
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Civil Rights for the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from U.S. History
Image: Dread Scott (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick) In July 1964, US President Lyndon B Johnson signed the [...]
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