The language of community participation now runs through every major UK research funding framework. Yet the architecture of grant funding structurally reproduces the very asymmetry in power relations that participation requirements are designed to address. Community-orientated oral history, at its best, shows that different models are possible, ones in which individual memory, shaped by historical conditions, is recovered in genuine partnership with the communities whose experiences are at stake.

Since the late 19th century women in Britain have protested against pervasive inequalities with men, much later joined by homosexual men, lesbians and transgender people protesting against inequalities they suffer. Understanding the causes of inequalities and why they persist should help us to remove them.

The threat posed by misinformation is an increasing cause for concern in contemporary society. But fifteenth-century records of London Consistory Court serve as a reminder that people have long sought redress for the reputational harm caused by misleading information. These historical parallels point to the need for mechanisms through which individuals and organisations can protect themselves from reputational damage.

Drawing on the experiences of her father, Harry Drabble, a survivor of childhood bovine tuberculosis, Helen Parker-Drabble argues that the long-term psychological and developmental impact of prolonged hospitalisation in childhood is a neglected aspect of today’s policy discussions.

Registration is still open for Professor David Feldman’s lecture ‘Mourning, memory and politics: memorialization of the Holocaust in Britain from the 1940s to the present day’.

Hilary Cooper publishes article to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act becoming law.