Photo: The author Katherine van Wormer (University of Northern Iowa) When I grew up in the Deep South, in [...]
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‘God Only Knows’ what they’ve done to the charity single
Image: Mike Fleming CC-BY-2.0 Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex) Charity singles were the perfect cultural form for Mrs Thatcher’s [...]
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Reproducing class? Classical music education and inequality
Image: The Cello Part for Vaughan Williams' London Symphony Anna Bull (Goldsmiths, University of London) In recent years there [...]
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Terroir today: The taste for the particular and the making of good taste
Image: Jennifer Smith Maguire Jennifer Smith Maguire (University of Leicester) The word ‘terroir’ has considerable clout in the world [...]
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“Pro” ana? Sociability and support in eating disorder online communities
Image: Roberto Clemente Paola Tubaro (University of Greenwich) Last June, a group of Italian MPs proposed jail terms and [...]
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Viral Crimes: When Law Goes Bad
Matthew Weait (Birkbeck, University of London) The Ebola crisis has re-ignited public debate about the way in which [...]
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Turning the European Court of Human Rights into a folk devil: the UK Conservative Party and human rights
Paul Johnson (University of York) Then there is the question of human rights… We attach great importance to [...]
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What’s war remembrance really for? To remember the fallen… Or to prepare us for the next time?
Bradford Cenotaph (Photo Peter Nias) Peter Nias (University of Bradford) What is the purpose of these war remembrances, both [...]
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Gendered histories, memory and identity: a story about social science
Photo: Richard Titmuss and Ann Oakley Ann Oakley (Institute of Education, University of London) Most of us would agree [...]
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The Road to a Fairer Scotland? Reflections on the Scottish referendum, politics and society
Kirstein Rummery (University of Stirling) The 18th September 2014 was possibly one of the most exciting days to [...]
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