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CSaP Annual Conference 2015

The annual conference will explore opportunities for improving the way government accesses, assesses and makes use of expertise from the humanities, and offer examples of the significant contribution these disciplines have made to public policy.

Women, peace and transnational activism: a century on

On the centenary of the 1915 Women’s Peace Congress in The Hague, historians reflect on the past, present and future of women’s transnational organising. This ‘virtual roundtable’ coincides with events at the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London. 

http://www.historyandpolicy.org/dialogues/discussions/women-peace-and-transnational-activism-a-century-on

Collective bargaining: past, present and future

Collective bargaining has changed and declined but it is not dead: Roger Jeary and Jim Moher report on the Trade Union Forum’s recent discussion, with Tony Burke of UNITE, Ray Ellis of CWU and Professor Melanie Simms of Leicester University.  

Women, peace and transnational activism: a century on

100 years after the Women’s Peace Congress in the Hague, historians, campaigners and politicians will reflect on the past, present and future of women’s transnational organising. Public events on 31 March at Queen Mary, University of London, will explore how far have feminist approaches been incorporated into international debates about security, development and human rights today. 

Whatever happened to collective bargaining?

This Trade Union Forum event features Tony Burke of UNITE, Ray Ellis of CWU, and Professor Melanie Simms of the University of Leicester. 

Lord Palmerston and the ‘civis Romanus sum’ principle

For the No. 10 Guest Historian series, Professor David Brown analyses the origins, response and legacy of Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston's 1850 defence of his contentious foreign policy. 

H&P evidence features in Parliamentary report on Civil Service skills

Hollowing out of civil servants’ skills and loss of institutional memory threaten good governance, according to a select committee inquiry into Civil Service skills to which H&P gave evidence. 

H&P historians contribute to Savile ‘lessons learnt’ report

The ‘lessons learnt’ report from the NHS investigations into Jimmy Savile drew on the expertise of H&P historians. 

H&P internships for King’s students

Internships with honoraria are available this spring and autumn at H&P. Any King’s BA, MA or PhD student of history or public policy is eligible to apply. 

The long past: an antidote to short-termism?

H&P is one solution for the historically-curious policy maker cutting through the online chaff for authoritative and accessible historical research, according to Professor David Reynolds, in his review of The History Manifesto, for New Statesman.