History & Policy
179 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -H&P is a unique collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary British History at King's College London and the University of Cambridge.
We are the only project in the UK providing access to an international network of more than 500 historians with a broad range of expertise. H&P offers a range of resources for historians, policy makers and journalists.
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Trade Unions and Employment in a Market Economy
May 24, 2020 10:31 - 77.4 MBONLINE SEMINAR Trade Unions and Employment in a Market Economy Thursday 21 May 2020, 6pm-8pm Andrew Brady will introduce his recent book: Unions and Employment in a Market Economy, Strategy, Influence and Power in Contemporary Britain (Routledge 2019) Other speakers included Sir Ian McCartney and Tom Wilson. The Seminar was chaired by Helen Hague Andrew Brady was awarded his PhD from the University of Strathclyde in 2017. He has held various positions within Unite the Union and is cur...
Brexit and workers’ rights - Professor Simon Deakin
October 02, 2019 15:12 - 22.9 MBBrexit and workers’ rights 1 October 2019 - 18:30 pm - 20:30 pm Keating Chambers, 15 Essex St, Temple, London WC2R 3AA Chaired by Sarah Veale Professor Michael Gold and Professor Simon Deakin talk on ‘What the UK's membership of the EU has entailed for workers’ rights and how the UK might achieve dynamic alignment of these rights after Brexit.’
Brexit and workers’ rights - Professor Michael Gold
October 02, 2019 15:11 - 17 MBBrexit and workers’ rights 1 October 2019 - 18:30 pm - 20:30 pm Keating Chambers, 15 Essex St, Temple, London WC2R 3AA Chaired by Sarah Veale Professor Michael Gold and Professor Simon Deakin talk on ‘What the UK's membership of the EU has entailed for workers’ rights and how the UK might achieve dynamic alignment of these rights after Brexit.’
Professor Shurlee Swain - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries
September 10, 2019 11:01 - 9.8 MB9 September 2019 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Anatomy Museum, King's College London, 6th floor, King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Over the past twenty years, a growing number of countries have established national inquiries in relation to historic child abuse, encompassing investigations of abuse in residential institutions and foster-care, as well as abuse in the context of particular types of institution or specific child welfare programmes. Historical researchers have engaged with thes...
Professor Pirjo Markkola - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries
September 10, 2019 11:01 - 9.78 MB9 September 2019 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Anatomy Museum, King's College London, 6th floor, King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Over the past twenty years, a growing number of countries have established national inquiries in relation to historic child abuse, encompassing investigations of abuse in residential institutions and foster-care, as well as abuse in the context of particular types of institution or specific child welfare programmes. Historical researchers have engaged with thes...
Professor Johanna Sköld - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries
September 10, 2019 10:59 - 8.46 MB9 September 2019 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Anatomy Museum, King's College London, 6th floor, King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Over the past twenty years, a growing number of countries have established national inquiries in relation to historic child abuse, encompassing investigations of abuse in residential institutions and foster-care, as well as abuse in the context of particular types of institution or specific child welfare programmes. Historical researchers have engaged with thes...
Professor Eoin O’Sullivan - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries
September 10, 2019 10:56 - 13 MB9 September 2019 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Anatomy Museum, King's College London, 6th floor, King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Over the past twenty years, a growing number of countries have established national inquiries in relation to historic child abuse, encompassing investigations of abuse in residential institutions and foster-care, as well as abuse in the context of particular types of institution or specific child welfare programmes. Historical researchers have engaged with thes...
Peter Ackers - In Place of Strife (1969)
May 02, 2019 10:33 - 19.5 MBPeter Ackers, co-editor, Alternatives to State-Socialism, Palgrave 2016. In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. It pitched voluntarist ideas of ‘free co...
Joe Dromey - In Place of Strife (1969)
May 02, 2019 10:32 - 25.4 MBJoe Dromey, author, Power to the People: How stronger unions can deliver economic justice, IPPR 2018 In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. It pitched v...
Roger Jeary - In Place of Strife (1969)
May 02, 2019 10:31 - 20.3 MBRoger Jeary In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. It pitched voluntarist ideas of ‘free collective bargaining’ against ideas of economic planning & pub...
David Lyddon - In Place of Strife (1969)
May 02, 2019 10:29 - 29 MBDavid Lyddon, co- editor journal Historical Studies in Industrial Relations In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. It pitched voluntarist ideas of ‘fr...
Peter Dorey - In Place of Strife (1969)
May 02, 2019 10:28 - 37.4 MBPeter Dorey, author Comrades in Conflict: Labour, the Trade Unions & In Place of Strife (1969), Manchester 2019 In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. I...
Welcome and Keynote - History & Policy: an international conference
December 14, 2018 16:13 - 28.6 MBDr Andrew Blick (King’s College London and Director, History & Policy) Professor Simon Szreter (Cambridge and Managing Editor, History & Policy)
Dane Kennedy - Brexit and the legacies of empire
December 14, 2018 16:12 - 16.7 MBDane Kennedy (National History Center): Brexit and the Legacies of Empire Although Britain lost its empire some fifty years ago, this talk will argue that the legacies of its imperial past have helped shape the debate surrounding Brexit and Britain’s future. I intend to (1) note the historical forces that brought an end to Britain’s empire and led to its belated and ambivalent entry into the European Union, (2) point out how postcolonial demographics and politics within British society gave...
David Lowe - Trump tumult and the Australian-American alliance in historical perspective
December 14, 2018 16:10 - 20.5 MBDavid Lowe (Australian Policy and History): Trump tumult and the Australian-American alliance in historical perspective The Trump phenomenon has caused many governments to think hard about the nature of their relationships with the United States. In the case of Australia, amidst the shock and confusion, it may even trigger the sort of questioning of the ANZUS Security Pact (1951) that historians have thus far been unable to stir. To date, ANZUS and the oft-recalled memory of 1 million Ameri...
Klaus Neumann - Forced migration, policy making, and the uses and abuses of history
December 14, 2018 16:09 - 16.8 MBKlaus Neumann (Deakin University, Melbourne): Forced migration, policy making, and the uses and abuses of history Drawing on examples from Germany and Australia, I reflect on the role of historicized and remembered pasts in the recent so-called refugee crisis. I am particularly interested in why and how the events of 2012-2013 (in Australia) and 2015-2016 (in Europe) were interpreted as an unprecedented crisis, and how particular readings and memories of the past facilitated or hampered res...
Jennifer Crane - The Place of Activism in History & Policy
December 14, 2018 15:50 - 16.6 MBJennifer Crane (Warwick): ‘The NHS … should not be condemned to the history books’: The Place of Activism in History & Policy. In a public event in South Wales in June 2017, one participant stated that the NHS must not be ‘condemned to the history books’ alone. This critical comment raises a series of questions about the relationships between history, policy, and activism, and also about the roles of public history in celebrating, criticising, or condemning public institutions. Drawing on r...
Sally Sheard - Learning from history: NHS plans
December 14, 2018 15:27 - 16.6 MBSally Sheard (Liverpool): Learning from history: NHS plans For the first 26 years, the NHS was left to run without major reform or reorganisation. Although planning emerged as a concern in the 1960s, linked to desires to increase effectiveness and efficiency, it wasn't until the 1980s, and the introduction of general management, that there was the political will or technical capacity to construct detailed, long-term plans. This paper considers the introduction of NHS plans as key political ...
Roberta Bivins - Prompting critical reflection on medical responses to migration
December 14, 2018 15:17 - 16.6 MBRoberta Bivins (Warwick): 'Stop reinventing the Wheel: Prompting critical reflection on medical responses to migration' Today, migration is framed as a crisis, and often one of unprecedented scale, complexity and diversity. Yet from a historian's perspective, neither this language nor the phenomena described by it are novel. Globally, the second half of the twentieth century was characterised by mass movements of population. Moreover, medical practices and ideas about 'good' citizenship and...
Roberta Bivins - Prompting critical reflection on medical responses to migration
December 14, 2018 15:17 - 16.6 MBRoberta Bivins (Warwick): 'Stop reinventing the Wheel: Prompting critical reflection on medical responses to migration' Today, migration is framed as a crisis, and often one of unprecedented scale, complexity and diversity. Yet from a historian's perspective, neither this language nor the phenomena described by it are novel. Globally, the second half of the twentieth century was characterised by mass movements of population. Moreover, medical practices and ideas about 'good' citizenship and...
Carolyn Holbrook - Failure to Attach: Australians and their Federation
December 14, 2018 15:16 - 16.9 MBCarolyn Holbrook (Australian Policy and History): Failure to Attach: Australians and their Federation The Australian federation was hailed as a beacon of democratic governance at the time of its establishment in 1901—a cutting-edge fusion of representative and federal ideals. The shimmer faded rapidly, however. Deficiencies such as service duplication and fiscal imbalance between an enriched Commonwealth and impecunious states, have proved stubbornly resistant to reform. Australians have re...
James Grossman - History, Public Memory, Celebration, and/or Commemoration: US Confederate Monuments and Public Policy
December 14, 2018 15:15 - 18.9 MBJames Grossman (American Historical Association): History, Public Memory, Celebration, and/or Commemoration: US Confederate Monuments and Public Policy Why does it matter whom we choose to memorialize in public spaces? Are military heroism and sacrifice inevitably tied to the purpose of that war? Jim Grossman is Executive Director of the American Historical Association. He was previously Vice President for Research and Education at the Newberry Library, and has taught at University of Chic...
Pawan Singh - Biometrics, identity and privacy in India
December 14, 2018 15:02 - 15.6 MBPawan Singh (Deakin University, Melbourne): Biometrics, identity and privacy in India In 2018, the Indian Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of mandatory Aadhaar, the Indian government's biometric programme that was launched in 2009 and challenged in the Supreme Court 2010 onwards. Civil society groups, lawyers and pro-privacy activists challenged Aadhaar's mandatory linkage to various state-sponsored benefit databases for the Aadhaar scheme's potential to bring about a survei...
Joanna Cruickshank - History, Law and Treaty-Making with Indigenous Peoples in Australia
December 14, 2018 15:01 - 17.1 MBJoanna Cruickshank (Deakin University, Melbourne): History, Law and Treaty-Making with Indigenous Peoples in Australia In February 2016, the Victorian state government became the first Australian jurisdiction to announce its intention to work towards a treaty with Indigenous people. As of late 2018, the treaty process is well underway. In this paper I discuss an Australian Research Council-funded project that is providing context for treaty processes between Australian governments and Indig...
Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell - Reforming the Civil Service: the Haldane report, 100 years on
November 17, 2018 19:31 - 16.1 MBRobin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell. In his forty-year career, Lord Butler has served as Private Secretary to five Prime Ministers and was Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service from 1988 to 1998. In addition to the many momentous political shifts in that time he has overseen an important period of change in the history of the Civil Service and its relationship to the wider world. 14 November 2018 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Council Room, King's College London, Strand, London ...
Professor Vernon Bogdanor - Reforming the Civil Service: the Haldane report, 100 years on
November 17, 2018 19:30 - 33.3 MBProfessor Vernon Bogdanor is Research Professor at the Centre for British Politics and Government at King’s College London. As one of Britain’s foremost constitutional experts he has written widely on British politics and the constitution and frequently advised governments and parliamentary bodies. 14 November 2018 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Council Room, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS The Haldane Report, which sees its centenary this year, was a landmark in early twentieth ce...
Jill Pellew - Regulation, inspection and extreme risk: The history behind the Grenfell Tower tragedy
October 19, 2018 11:20 - 30.2 MBDr Jill Pellew FRHistS Senior Research Fellow Institute of Historical Research, SAS University of London WC1E 7HU Wednesday 17 October: 5:00pm - 7:00pm History, Faculty of, Room 6, West Road, CB3 9EF The Grenfell Tower fire is generally agreed to have been the worst tragedy of unnecessary loss of life in Britain since the Aberfan disaster of 1966. In Victorian Britain a number of such disasters struck in various sectors of industry and society as the rapidly changing and largely unregu...
Ewen Shane - Regulation, inspection and extreme risk: The history behind the Grenfell Tower tragedy
October 19, 2018 11:18 - 27.6 MBDue to illness, Ewen Shane talk was given by Professor Simon Szreter. Shane Ewen is Reader in Urban History at Leeds Beckett University. He is Co-Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’. He has written extensively about the history of Britain’s fire and rescue service. This policy paper is based on a presentation given at the Home Office in January 2018. Wednesday 17 October: 5:00pm - 7:00p...
Michael Jay - Une sortie sans accord? The French view of Brexit
October 15, 2018 10:56 - 7.84 MB15 October 2018 - 18:30 pm - 19:30 pm River Room, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS As Brexit negotiations proceed, all eyes are on the actions and perspectives of the UK government and the European Commission – but how do the perspectives of other major EU member nations feed into the process? British history has often been deployed by participants in the debate, but how might other national histories have brought us to this moment? And what does the political class in France...
Dr Sophie Loussouarn - Une sortie sans accord? The French view of Brexit
October 15, 2018 10:54 - 24.1 MB15 October 2018 - 18:30 pm - 19:30 pm River Room, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS As Brexit negotiations proceed, all eyes are on the actions and perspectives of the UK government and the European Commission – but how do the perspectives of other major EU member nations feed into the process? British history has often been deployed by participants in the debate, but how might other national histories have brought us to this moment? And what does the political class in France...
Gail Cartmail - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC
October 08, 2018 10:32 - 12.3 MBGail Cartmail, Assistant General Secretary, UNITE Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again...
Michael Gold - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC
October 08, 2018 10:30 - 12.8 MBMichael Gold, Professor of Comparative Employment Relations, Royal Holloway University of London Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industria...
Laura Cohen - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC
October 08, 2018 10:29 - 12.1 MBLaura Cohen, CEO, British Ceramic Confederation Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again s...
Lord John Monks and Nick Jones - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC
October 08, 2018 10:28 - 46.9 MBLord John Monks, General Secretary of the TUC 1993-2003 Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are...
Peter Ackers - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC
October 08, 2018 10:26 - 18.2 MBPeter Ackers, Visiting Professor, Loughborough University 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress...
Dr James Moher - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC
October 08, 2018 10:24 - 32.2 MBDr James Moher, a former union official and historian of the Labour movement 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Tr...
John Edmonds - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC
October 08, 2018 10:23 - 26.1 MBJohn Edmonds, former General Council chair and GMB General Secretary 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Uni...
Mark Curthoys - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC
October 08, 2018 10:21 - 24.2 MBMark Curthoys, research editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades ...
Paul Nowak - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC
October 08, 2018 10:21 - 15.3 MBPaul Nowak, TUC Deputy General Secretary 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions...
Helen Glew - Why is equal pay for women so difficult to achieve?
June 29, 2018 14:39 - 29.4 MB20 June 2018 - 18:00 pm - 20:00 pm Room K-1.56, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS In spite of Equal Pay Laws and House of Commons Resolutions, there is still a gender pay gap in Britain - and hear an analysis of the recently gathered gender pay reports of large companies from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. History and Policy’s Trade Union and Employment Forum is holding a seminar at King's College London featuring: Helen Glew, Senior Lecturer in History at the Un...
Sue Coe - Why is equal pay for women so difficult to achieve?
June 20, 2018 14:37 - 90.1 MB20 June 2018 - 18:00 pm - 20:00 pm Room K-1.56, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS In spite of Equal Pay Laws and House of Commons Resolutions, there is still a gender pay gap in Britain - and hear an analysis of the recently gathered gender pay reports of large companies from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. History and Policy’s Trade Union and Employment Forum is holding a seminar at King's College London featuring: Helen Glew, Senior Lecturer in History at the Un...
Professor Kevin Theakston - Reforming the Civil Service: the Fulton Report, 50 years on
June 19, 2018 18:54 - 25.1 MBProfessor Kevin Theakston, Professor of British Government at the University of Leeds, and co-author of William Armstrong and British Policy Making (Palgrave Macmillan 2018). Armstrong was the inaugural head of the Civil Service Department, the establishment of which Fulton recommended, and was charged with implementing the Report. Reforming the Civil Service: the Fulton Report, 50 years on 9 June 2018 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Room 2.03, Bush House (South Wing), King's College London, Strand...
Lord Richard Wilson - Reforming the Civil Service: the Fulton Report, 50 years on
June 19, 2018 18:19 - 15.6 MBRichard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton is a crossbench peer and former Head of the Civil Service. His 36-year career there began in 1966 (the year the Fulton Committee began its deliberations) at the Board of Trade, and has included service in the Department of Energy, the Cabinet Office, the Department of the Environment and the Home Office before becoming Head of the Civil Service in 1998, a position he retired from in 2002. Reforming the Civil Service: the Fulton Report, 50 years on 9 J...
Dr Catherine Haddon - Reforming the Civil Service: the Fulton Report, 50 years on
June 19, 2018 08:55 - 7.62 MBDr Catherine Haddon, Senior Fellow and Resident Historian at the Institute for Government. Dr Haddon specialises in the history of Whitehall and the evolution of civil service reform. Reforming the Civil Service: the Fulton Report, 50 years on 9 June 2018 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Room 2.03, Bush House (South Wing), King's College London, Strand WC2R 1ES The Report of the Committee on the Civil Service, commissioned by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson and chaired by Lord Fulton, appea...
Sir Richard Mottram - Reforming the Civil Service: the Next Steps report, 30 years on
May 22, 2018 14:45 - 12.2 MBSir Richard Mottram 22 May 2018 - 18:15 pm - 19:45 pm Council Room, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS In 1988 the official report Improving Efficiency in Government: The Next Steps appeared in its final form. It led on to one of the most substantial reconfigurations the UK machinery of government has seen, with the allocation of a wide range of functions to executive agencies. Kate Jenkins, former head of the government's Efficiency Unit and co-author of the report, will prov...
Kate Jenkins - Reforming the Civil Service: the Next Steps report, 30 years on
May 22, 2018 11:56 - 33.2 MBKate Jenkins 22 May 2018 - 18:15 pm - 19:45 pm Council Room, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS In 1988 the official report Improving Efficiency in Government: The Next Steps appeared in its final form. It led on to one of the most substantial reconfigurations the UK machinery of government has seen, with the allocation of a wide range of functions to executive agencies. Kate Jenkins, former head of the government's Efficiency Unit and co-author of the report, will provide her...
Promoting democracy: past and present lessons for Iran, Egypt and beyond
February 22, 2018 15:45 - 27.3 MBAlex Loktionov of Robinson College, Cambridge. 22 February 2018 - 16:00 pm - 18:00 pm Room 1.03, Bush House (North East Wing), 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG How can the past - even the ancient past - help democracy advocates understand the societies they are working in? Mariam Memarsadeghi, Iranian-American human rights and democracy advocate and co-founder of Tavaana: E-learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society, will talk about the contemporary position in Iran and the work of her orga...
Promoting democracy: past and present lessons for Iran, Egypt and beyond
February 22, 2018 15:42 - 14.4 MBMariam Memarsadeghi - Tavaana: E-learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society 22 February 2018 - 16:00 pm - 18:00 pm Room 1.03, Bush House (North East Wing), 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG How can the past - even the ancient past - help democracy advocates understand the societies they are working in? Mariam Memarsadeghi, Iranian-American human rights and democracy advocate and co-founder of Tavaana: E-learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society, will talk about the contemporary position i...
Race, Female Suffrage, and Parliamentary Representation in the Global South
February 09, 2018 20:29 - 18.6 MBCarole Spary - University of Nottingham 9 February 2018 - 10:15 am - 14:45 pm Palace of Westminster, London SW1A 2PW How can global and historical movements for women’s political rights provide models for achieving racial and gender equality in the British political arena? On the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, this one-day workshop will explore the ways in which past and contemporary movements, especially featuring women of colour and women in the global south, c...
Race, Female Suffrage, and Parliamentary Representation in the Global South
February 09, 2018 15:40 - 7.15 MBSam Smethers - Fawcett Society 9 February 2018 - 10:15 am - 14:45 pm Palace of Westminster, London SW1A 2PW How can global and historical movements for women’s political rights provide models for achieving racial and gender equality in the British political arena? On the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, this one-day workshop will explore the ways in which past and contemporary movements, especially featuring women of colour and women in the global south, can be app...