“Socrates’ dictum that beauty is the useful has at last been ironically fulfilled.” Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno

My students often ask me how old something has to be to be considered history. They are usually searching for an agreed cut-off point between the surface-level churn of present events and a past that ...

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How has the state shaped different generations’ experience of infancy?

In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.

The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.

Margery Perham was six feet tall. She was the first woman and youngest lecturer in the history department at the University of Sheffield after the First

Universities, a key plank of our economy, face a bonfire of jobs. But are they the jobs Starmer wants to be seen to be saving, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

From 'lying in' to bedside cots: Emily Baughan traces childbirth changes.

The city was at the vanguard of working-class obsolescence. How should we understand its fate?

Hunter's Bar Playschool opened in 1975 and is having to close as staff say government funding is too low.

or, the strange disappearance of community playgroups

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children, community, and the family in contemporary Britain. Click to read PLAYGROUP, by EmilyBaughan, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.