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Image: Beth Sporne, pincponc2 John Hills (London School of Economics)   Britain’s welfare state now accounts for two-thirds of all government spending – [...]

Jonathan Bradshaw, University of York   Since the Second World War the living standards of the population of the UK have been [...]

Yvette Taylor and Emily Falconer (London South Bank University)   What and where are the spaces for queer religious youth? Who are in [...]

Matthew Waites (University of Glasgow)   Is the Commonwealth, despite its origins in British imperialism, a suitable organisation to utilise for human [...]

Image: Imperial War Museum Rebecca O’Connell, Abigail Knight and Julia Brannen (UCL Institute of Education, London)   The use of the past as [...]

Photo: The exposed tip of the Ywar Gyi Village pagoda and the top floor of the village monastery, part of [...]

Image: Francisco Martins CC BY-NC 2.0 Rachel Lara Cohen (City University)   The news in 2014 was regularly punctuated with stories of care [...]

Alyson Learmonth (Independent Public Health Consultant)   In September 2014 the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England published her Annual Report ‘Public [...]

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 [...]

Image: ‘That Way’ Justin Baeder Kevin Gillan (University of Manchester)   Among scholars of social movements there is presently a lively debate about [...]