Aid policy poses a dilemma for middle-ranking global powers. As multilateral guarantees weaken and US leadership becomes less predictable, they appear to face a choice between doubling down on rights-based aid or aligning more explicitly with security-driven priorities. Yet history suggests that a blended approach is possible.

UK food security has relied more on circumstance than strategy. Past crises offer lessons for building future resilience.

The tragic shootings at Bondi Beach and Brown University have put questions of gun control back in the spotlight. These debates are almost as old as guns themselves and they point to the extent to which cultural attitudes to firearms are deeply embedded.

The team of historians behind an AHRC-funded research project reflect on the fracturing of Conservatism and Unionism in the the UK in the final third of the twentieth century, and the insights into that process provided by a witness seminar hosted by History & Policy in June 2025.

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.