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Trade Unions and Employment in a Market Economy
History & Policy - May 24, 2020 10:31ONLINE 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 McCartn...
Brexit and workers’ rights - Professor Simon Deakin
History & Policy - October 02, 2019 15:12Brexit 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 ac...
Brexit and workers’ rights - Professor Michael Gold
History & Policy - October 02, 2019 15:11Brexit 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 ac...
Professor Shurlee Swain - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries
History & Policy - September 10, 2019 11:019 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 ab...
Professor Pirjo Markkola - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries
History & Policy - September 10, 2019 11:019 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 ab...
Professor Johanna Sköld - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries
History & Policy - September 10, 2019 10:599 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 ab...
Professor Eoin O’Sullivan - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries
History & Policy - September 10, 2019 10:569 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 ab...
Peter Ackers - In Place of Strife (1969)
History & Policy - May 02, 2019 10:33Peter 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 ...
Joe Dromey - In Place of Strife (1969)
History & Policy - May 02, 2019 10:32Joe 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 betwe...
Roger Jeary - In Place of Strife (1969)
History & Policy - May 02, 2019 10:31Roger 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 P...
David Lyddon - In Place of Strife (1969)
History & Policy - May 02, 2019 10:29David 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 La...
Peter Dorey - In Place of Strife (1969)
History & Policy - May 02, 2019 10:28Peter 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 con...
Welcome and Keynote - History & Policy: an international conference
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 16:13Dr 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
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 16:12Dane 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 ...
David Lowe - Trump tumult and the Australian-American alliance in historical perspective
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 16:10David 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 c...
Klaus Neumann - Forced migration, policy making, and the uses and abuses of history
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 16:09Klaus 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 wh...
Jennifer Crane - The Place of Activism in History & Policy
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 15:50Jennifer 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 se...
Sally Sheard - Learning from history: NHS plans
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 15:27Sally 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 ...
Roberta Bivins - Prompting critical reflection on medical responses to migration
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 15:17Roberta 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 pheno...
Roberta Bivins - Prompting critical reflection on medical responses to migration
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 15:17Roberta 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 pheno...
Carolyn Holbrook - Failure to Attach: Australians and their Federation
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 15:16Carolyn 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 ...
James Grossman - History, Public Memory, Celebration, and/or Commemoration: US Confederate Monuments and Public Policy
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 15:15James 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 wa...
Pawan Singh - Biometrics, identity and privacy in India
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 15:02Pawan 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...
Joanna Cruickshank - History, Law and Treaty-Making with Indigenous Peoples in Australia
History & Policy - December 14, 2018 15:01Joanna 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 ...
Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell - Reforming the Civil Service: the Haldane report, 100 years on
History & Policy - November 17, 2018 19:31Robin 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 a...
Professor Vernon Bogdanor - Reforming the Civil Service: the Haldane report, 100 years on
History & Policy - November 17, 2018 19:30Professor 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 bodi...
Jill Pellew - Regulation, inspection and extreme risk: The history behind the Grenfell Tower tragedy
History & Policy - October 19, 2018 11:20Dr 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 ...
Ewen Shane - Regulation, inspection and extreme risk: The history behind the Grenfell Tower tragedy
History & Policy - October 19, 2018 11:18Due 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 ...
Michael Jay - Une sortie sans accord? The French view of Brexit
History & Policy - October 15, 2018 10:5615 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 int...
Dr Sophie Loussouarn - Une sortie sans accord? The French view of Brexit
History & Policy - October 15, 2018 10:5415 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 int...
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