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Book Review: The UK after Brexit: Legal and Policy Challenges edited by...
In the edited collection The UK after Brexit: Legal and Policy Challenges, Michael Dougan brings together contributors to explore the key challenges facing the UK legal system and broader public policy...
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Author Interview: Q&A with Sharon Crozier-De Rosa on her book, Shame and the...
In this author interview, we speak to Sharon Crozier-De Rosa about her new book, Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920, which examines the use of shame as an...
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Book Review: Britain’s Nuclear Experience: The Roles of Beliefs, Culture and...
This book examines Britain’s nuclear experience by moving away from traditional interpretations of why states develop and maintain nuclear weapons by adopting a more contemporary approach to political...
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Book Review: Enemy on the Euphrates: The Battle for Iraq, 1914-1921
Enemy on the Euphrates: The Battle for Iraq, 1914-1921 documents the British Empire’s occupation of Iraq during the First World War and the subsequent uprising against its rule. The author, Ian...
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Book Review: 1996 and the End of History by David Stubbs
In 1996 and The End of History, journalist and author David Stubbs examines a year – 1996 – that marked the pinnacle of a decade, not just in politics but across music, entertainment and sport. Tying...
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Book Review: The New Elizabethan Age. Culture, Society and National Identity...
In The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II, editors Irene Morra and Rob Gossedge bring together contributors to explore the emergence of a cultural ‘new...
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Book Review: Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants from the Former...
In Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants from the Former Yugoslavia in Britain, Gayle Munro offers an ethnographic account based on 200 narratives of migrants from the former Yugoslavia to Britain,...
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Book Review: The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation...
In The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation, Tim Bale dissects the complex dynamics of a divided party attempting to use the Brexit referendum result to political advantage....
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Book Review: Alt-Finance: How the City of London Bought Democracy by Marlène...
In Alt-Finance: How the City of London Bought Democracy, Marlène Benquet and Théo Bourgeron trace the influence of a class of ultra-Eurosceptic financiers on the Brexit referendum. This concise and...
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Orderly Britain: How Britain Has Resolved Everyday Problems, from Dog Fouling...
In Orderly Britain: How Britain Has Resolved Everyday Problems, from Dog Fouling to Double Parking, Tim Newburn and Andrew Ward explore how ordinary social behaviours – including queuing, drinking and...
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Milo Miller introduces Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women’s Group
In an excerpt from the preface to Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women’s Group, editor Milo Miller shares context about the group and the impetus for the book which brings together, for the first time,...
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The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism – review
In The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism, Geoffrey Hodgson traces the roots of modern capitalism to financial and legal institutions established in England in the 17th...
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The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it – review
In The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it, Liam Byrne examines the UK’s deep-seated inequality which has channelled wealth away from ordinary people (disproportionately youth and...
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In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s – review
Margaret Galvan‘s In Visible Archives explores the political power of archival material in shaping feminist and queer futures. Applying archival studies and comics scholarship to work from the 1980s by...
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Uncomfortably Off – review
In Uncomfortably Off, Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell examine Britain’s top 10 per cent of earners, arguing that growing inequalities negatively affect them in terms of anxiety about jobs,...
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Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women’s Group – review
In Speak Out!, Milo Miller curates a selection of writings by one of the first and most important Black radical organisations of the 1970s, the Brixton Black Women’s Group. This vital anthology...
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Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age – review
In Significant Emotions, Ashley Frawley critiques the trend of pathologising distress caused by socio-economic problems (like cost-of-living pressures and insecure, low-paid employment) as “mental...
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Unchecked Power? – review
In Unchecked Power?, Alison L. Young scrutinises the impact of Boris Johnson’s government on British democracy, specifically its strained relationship with the courts and constitutional reforms....
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How Did Britain Come to This? – review
In How Did Britain Come to This?, Gwyn Bevan critiques a century of systemic governance failures in Britain in areas from healthcare and housing to privatisation and outsourcing. Bevan’s sharp and...
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The Liberal Democrats: From hope to despair to where? – review
In The Liberal Democrats, David Cutts, Andrew Russell, and Joshua Townsley surveys the party’s fluctuating fortunes and identity struggles within Britain’s turbulent political landscape. According to...
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