Over the past sixty years, the wealth gap in the USA between the typical White and Black households has more than tripled, even after adjustment for inflation. Tax policies that have remained largely overlooked, have led to America doubling down on its legacy of promoting White supremacy. Robert B Williams argues that this trend needs to be reversed.

Low turnout in the 2024 General Election and other signs of voter disengagement from politics pose serious challenges for the UK’s democratic system. To meet these, this policy paper argues, we need a better understanding of the emotional atmospheres in which politics is lived. It suggests that Mass Observation, founded in the 1930s, offers both the ethos and the tools to provide this.

There has been much discussion over the impact since 2010 of austerity and in particular the two-child limit on child poverty and health. Historians have now measured the health effects of the first Westminster-imposed austerity programme of severe cuts to child allowances. This was when the New Poor Law of the workhouse was launched in 1834. The impact on child mortality is revealed and it is shocking.

At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK, the Institute of Historical Research has made available a unique archive of interviews with some of the profession’s leading post-war British scholars. Their reflections provide valuable evidence for importance of the discipline and the urgent need not only to defend it but to disseminate its values across society.

As the Labour Government’s Employment Bill neared the end of its passage through Parliament, History & Policy’s Trades Union and Employment Forum organized a special conference examining the history of Employment Tribunals.

A collection of papers based on our seminar series in partnership with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Historians on official history has been published in a special edition of the refereed journal ‘Diplomacy and Statecraft’.