Responses to the death of Evelyn Fuller in 1938 point to a long history of public debate around mental health, suicide and assisted dying. Policy makers need to pay attention to that history in order to devise policies that address the social conditions that make some women especially vulnerable to taking their own lives.

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.

Professor David Green argues that the repeal of the 1824 Vagrancy Act in June 2026 was long overdue. Social attitudes to begging and rough sleeping have changed considerably in recent decades. But poverty continues to be one of the most pressing issues of our time.

Unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland, the authorities in England and Wales have never carried out a thorough historical inquiry into the standard of care for children and young people with long-term healthcare needs. Helen Parker-Drabble argues that this is long overdue.

Dr Jim Moher has written this account of the special panel discussion convened by the History & Policy Trades Union and Employment Forum at the IHR on 29 April 2026 to launch Jonathan Schneer’s Nine Days in May: the General Strike of 1926.

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’.