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Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

Elite schools in the UK are bound to the history of British colonialism. This paper examines the material ties between these schools and the transatlantic slave trade. We combine multiple sources t...

More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. How...

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This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and dr...

Hotels report increase in last-minute bookings, including from families attempting to escape hot homes Families, including parents with newborn babies, are booking air-conditioned rooms in hotels to escape the UK heatwave, with companies reporting a surge in demand. Data from the accommodation reservation website Booking.com shows that since 1 June, the share of searches using the “air-conditioning” filter has tripled across Great Britain coinciding with the latest heatwave in northern Europe. Continue reading...

Our alum, Bethany, discusses the prominence of unpaid work in the creative professions.

This book examines the processes through which children effectively 'inherit' their position in the social world. It asks: How does class inequality affect

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Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...

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Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students

Ingrid Robeyns introduces limitarianism as regulative ideal to keep striving for, the view that there should be a cap on how much personal wealth each individual can have.

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

Abstract. Prior research has described how middle-class and affluent families draw on private supplemental educational resources to help their children mai

University of Leicester announces four-year initiative to address sector’s engagement and benefit gap

Er komt een cruciale week aan voor de VUB. De Vlaamse regering bespaart vanaf 1 januari fors in het budget voor het Brussels hoger onderwijs. Van vakbonden tot studenten, professoren en decanen: op 11...

Er komt een cruciale week aan voor de VUB. De Vlaamse regering bespaart vanaf 1 januari fors in het budget voor het Brussels hoger onderwijs. Van vakbonden tot studenten, professoren en decanen: op 11...

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

In the current context of extreme economic inequality and rising concentrations of income and wealth at the top, the social processes through which elites restrict the wider population's access to re...

Romantic repartnering in later life has received substantial scholarly and public attention in light of population aging and changes in family dynamics. In the United States, the importance of househ...