A major new research project exploring the political and economic foundations of British slavery has been awarded funding by a leading foundation.

YouTube video by Otto Lehto

Contemporary western democracies like the United States and the United Kingdom bear the imprint of historical racial injustice – slavery, segregation, discrimination, and mistreatment and neglect b...

Contemporary western democracies like the United States and the United Kingdom bear the imprint of historical racial injustice – slavery, segregation, discrimination, and mistreatment and neglect b...

A key note lecture delivered by Professor Simone Chambers (Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine)

As Elon Musk’s DOGE chainsaws through federal agencies with budget and staff cuts, Tesla and SpaceX, cornerstones of his wealth, continue to benefit from public money. They probably wouldn’t have succ...

For years, Navalny was Vladimir Putin's biggest political rival, but now the Russian opposition is weaker than ever.

A foreign billionaire is running the state through a shadow government without formal checks – the constitutional order, now, is largely window dressing It’s one of the humiliations of our historical moment that the constitutional order has been…

PDF | This article argues that Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has been widely misread as a crude defense of the inequalities of contemporary... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

Was the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade a triumph of altruism over pecuniary self-interest? Analysis of qualitative data reveals the importance of self-interested motives underlying t...

This book examines the rise of exclusionary neoliberalism by assessing how far-right populist actors impact economic policy change

The Constitution Unit is welcoming applicants to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme for September 2025 to May 2026 entry, with an internal deadline of 26 August 2024.

Nature sent a reporter to find out as part of an investigation into dud events. Nature sent a reporter to find out as part of an investigation into dud events.

Origins of Dorset hillside chalk figure was as muster station for West Saxon armies fending off Vikings, historians concludeFor centuries, historians and archaeologists have puzzled over the origins of the Cerne Abbas giant, the huge, naked, club-wielding figure cut into a chalky hillside in the English West Country. Was he a Celtic god, some sort of ancient fertility symbol, or, perhaps, a more recent lampoon of Oliver Cromwell?Research from the University of Oxford has now concluded that the 60m tall figure in Dorset could have marked an inspiring muster station for West Saxon armies at a time when the area was being attacked by Viking warriors. Continue reading...

Portico library has secured funding for plans to create dining, meeting, exhibition and educational spaces

Academics are leaving a city which at one time attracted top talent for its world-class universities.

The Rwanda scheme is the perfect example of the politics of 'vice signalling'. So why isn't it working?

Derbyshire woman who bought item said she felt uneasy at find that raises concerns over possible prison labour

Home secretary says policy not ‘be all and end all’ of plans to tackle illegal immigration, in clear break from Braverman