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The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...Projects: the Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England (1975). Drawing on textual primary sources, she wrote a political and cultural account that might help us to make sense of the Cambridge Group’s recent figures. Their findings might even re-ignite an old debate, about the economic consequences of the Reformation. The reign of Elizabeth was not long...
Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...Project Fear’. This may prove to have tragic consequences since it appears increasingly clear that the majority of economic forecasters were in fact correct in their broad assessments of the likely implications of Brexit for sterling, real wages, investment and long-term growth rates, as the Bank of England Governor and the Centre for European Reform have recently...
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...projected 5%%u201395% probability intervals for Antarctic sea-level contributions are shown with and without the original MICI representation. RCP 8.5,RCP 4.5 and RCP 2.6 represent very high, intermediate and very low greenhouse gas emission scenarios, respectively. Figure reproduced from Edwards et al. 2019. To summarize, the only reason for the 2016 study to predict...
The case for and against a second referendum
Society, Politics & Law

The case for and against a second referendum

...project, as shown by ongoing discussions around membership of the single market and the customs union. Not only did we not know the answers to such questions at the time of the original referendum, but the vast majority of people couldn’t have fully understood the questions. What really should have appeared on the ballot in 2016 was a series of questions: do you want to...
The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...Project [Engraving depicting a pin factory in the 1760s. ] Engraving depicting a pin factory in the 1760s. From Smith’s life story, it is not immediately obvious why he became such an iconic figure of modern economics. He led a comfortable, quiet, studious life, whose only notable adventure was a 2-year stay in France. It is his two books, rather than his acts, that...
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...projected their own version of Shakespeare – different writers, different playwrights – on to these very few facts and created a… a fake Shakespeare that’s become a sort of national icon in a strange way. This made me question the whole issue of what is true in my research in a different way, I just wondered if that had been the same for you. EMMA DARWIN: Oh I...
‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus
History & The Arts

‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus

...Project map and partners' resources for guidance in using the Hestia texts. Now read the commentary from Livius.org where the author outlines the problem. [Nabonidud] Nabonidus Chronicle, British Museum, London “For Greece, the sequence of events in what we call the 6th century BC is more or less known from Herodotus of Halicarnassus. 'The Histories' contain a general...
Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...project rooted in the defence and consolidation of particular class interests. It represents little more than a political assault on the foundations of the post-1945 welfare state and the idea enshrined in the post-1945 social contract that the state has a vital role to play in reducing inequalities by providing benefits and services. Courting the super rich Instead...