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...based on the nutritional adequacy of the diet the people could afford. And they had more or less, poverty had more or less been abolished. But Townsend's contribution was to dismiss the methods of Rowntree and to argue that you could only understand poverty as relative. He was a sociologist. And he argued that poverty should be understood as not just the lack of basic...

...based politics of Glasgow that emerged during the forty hours movement in 1919. This allows the paper to juxtapose the broader international linkages forged by Scottish workers alongside racialised hostilities within the city. In particular, the paper compares and contrasts the progressive internationalism of the strike newspaper with the Broomielaw ‘race riot’...

...base with an important conclusion: UN peacekeeping works. In your own research, you need to begin by thinking about the puzzle you want to examine and the best way of interrogating it. Will you ask a ‘how’ question to understand something, or a hypothesis-testing ‘why’ question to explain it? Either way, this will hopefully say something important about the way...