Politics

#WorldMentalHealthDay, Left-Wing Politics and Radical Histories of Mental Health

by Steffan Blayney on October 10, 2018

Today is World Mental Health Day, and the theme for 2018 is ‘Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World’. In reading the coverage of the event, including the official Twitter feed, it is

Le Pen and “detoxifying” the brand of the far-right

by Itay Lotem on May 5, 2017

After an election campaign that continuously promised unexpected disruptions on the first round of the French presidential elections, the expected

The Power of the Polls

by David Vessey on April 24, 2017

In response to Theresa May’s announcement of a snap election for June 8, Andrew Marr tweeted, ‘what follows now is

Shutdown 2013: Working in the Shutdown City

by Charlie Thompson on October 16, 2013

On October 7 2013, I officially became an AHRC-funded fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in

Is anyone listening? History and public policy

by Adrian Bingham on July 2, 2013

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Can historians influence the public policy-making process? Having recently seen one of my articles cited in the Leveson report, I’d

History in the streets: the removal of the International Brigades monument in Madrid

by Matthew Kerry on June 10, 2013

Last week the Supreme Court of Madrid ruled that the monument to the International Brigades, the foreign volunteers who travelled to Spain to fight the Francoist forces during the Spanish Civil War, should be removed