of a social historian
This is the miscellaneous category, where you’ll find blog posts on various aspects of social, cultural and political history that sit in some way outside of my usual themes. What you’ll find below ranges from write-ups of history conferences and museum exhibitions to mini-biographies of interesting lives I come across, whether they be LGBT rights or anti-poverty campaigners, diplomats, punk poets or tennis champions.
Later this month, I'll start teaching a new module as part of new MA in Twentieth-Century Britain at the University of Wolverhampton. My module, focusing on citizenship and the welfare state, will have a strong focus on bringing together history and policy. So I thought it only right that I should practice what I preach …
Continue reading "The NHS Long Term Plan, prevention, and a century of promises"
For a good few years now, I've been popping up at conferences and workshops and seminars, making the case for adopting a cross-disciplinary way of thinking about money in modern life. So I guess I'd put my views on money histories on the radar by the time the Social History Society and the Economic History …
Continue reading "The Social and Economic Life of Money: From the Medieval to the Modern"
This week the British National Health Service will turn 70. The NHS came into being on the 'appointed day' of 5 July 1948 - three years to the day after Labour's surprise election victory under Clement Attlee. You'll find me sharing my thoughts on the history of the NHS and what it replaced in a …
