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We can’t allow Human Rights Day to slip by as just another Thursday
By Shami Chakrabarti CBE Today is Human Rights Day. In this age of global information-sharing it can seem like every week comes with its share of anniversaries. Some relate to you and some don’t. Some...
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Applicability of the European Convention on Human Rights to UK Airborne...
By Dr Noëlle Quénivet and Dr Aurel Sari On 2 December the House of Commons approved the extension of airborne operations to Syria. This blog discusses the applicability of the European Convention on...
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We need to talk about Edward Augustus Freeman
On 7 December 2015, the editors of a new British Academy volume of essays about Edward August Freeman – Dr Jonathan Conlin and Dr Alex Bremner – met the Reverend Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt FBA at...
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Hearing voices from the Chilembwe Rising of 1915
In 1915, the Reverend John Chilembwe led a short-lived but violent uprising in the British Protectorate of Nyasaland – what is now Malawi – which sent shock waves through Britain’s possessions in...
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National culture matters more than corporate culture
By Dr David Hugh-Jones Volkswagen recently admitted its cars had cheated on emissions tests. The news damaged the company, and caused soul-searching in Germany. Would the country lose its valuable...
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Sharing music, sharing life stories: The Cypriot Fiddler project
By Dr Nicoletta Demetriou In 2005, as part of my fieldwork for my ethnomusicology PhD at SOAS, I left London and went to Cyprus to do a series of interviews with elderly folk musicians. I was then...
View ArticleHard Evidence: how British do British Muslims feel?
By Saffron Karlsen The prime minister, David Cameron, has launched a number of measures aimed at improving integration among Muslims – in particular, Muslim women – in the UK. Polls show that around...
View ArticleEngland’s A&E crisis is fuelled by inequality
By Richard Cookson The poorest fifth of people in England not only have a lower life expectancy than the wealthiest fifth, they are also more likely to spend more years in ill health than the...
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Magic, Witches and Devils in the Early Modern World
Zhong Kui (Shōki) the Demon Queller, attacking a Demon with a sword and an umbrella”, Courtesy of the Whitworth, University of Manchester By Dr Sasha Handley All societies face challenges. We are...
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Who is a Holocaust Survivor?
By Dr Rebecca Clifford On 27 January each year, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, we commemorate the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Since the inception of...
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The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI): the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Professor Paul Heywood The Good: first released in 1995 and published annually since then, Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is rightly seen as an immensely important...
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The virtual and the physical: The growth of social media data on places, and...
By John Davies Image shows geotagged photographic activity around London’s Waterloo station on the photo sharing website Flickr, in particular the effects of the 2008 Cans street art festival. The...
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Women as vectors of social entrepreneurship in hospitality and tourism
By Dr Albert Kimbu The declaration of the need to ‘achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’ (Sustainable Development Goal No. 5) is no surprise for the hospitality and tourism industry...
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Bigger cities are more productive but higher cost: what policy could do but...
By Professor Paul Cheshire Cities are founded on specialisation. They were ‘discovered’ about 14,000 years ago and are arguably humanity’s most important invention. Why did we invent the wheel?...
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Writing home: how German immigrants found their place in the US
By Félix Krawatzek, University of Oxford and Gwendolyn Sasse, University of Oxford The hysterical anti-migrant and anti-refugee rhetoric from the Republican candidates in the US presidential race has...
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The Archers and The Medieval Community
By Dr Philippa Byrne In my daily life, I have two major topics of conversation. The first is the Middle Ages – reasonable enough, given I am a medieval historian. My second great interest (although...
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Understanding tax credits in debates about wage supplements from the past
By Dr Chris Grover There can be little doubt that the Conservative government got into policy and political difficulties over announcements in the 2015 summer budget that it intended to reduce the...
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Can we ever return to the Golden Age of social mobility?
By Dr Lindsay Richards To answer this question, we first need to explain what is meant by the term social mobility and how it is measured. Intergenerational mobility is a measure of the relationship...
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Quantitative Skills and UK Higher Education Social Science
By Professor John MacInnes Modern statistics was invented in Britain towards the end of the nineteenth century and into the first decades of the twentieth by Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, Ronald...
View ArticleAriosto, Harry Potter and Hippogriffs: weaving textual webs
By Dr Stefano Jossa Nobody would fail to recognize a hippogriff. Although non-existent, hippogriffs are now known to everybody: the Harry Potter saga – both in the novel and film version – has made...
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