As the NHS strains under a ‘winter crisis’ without sufficient funding, Anne Summers looks at the limits of private provision of healthcare in 1800 and 2018.
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The Brexit Syllabus: British History for Brexiteers
What would a British history syllabus for Brexiteers look like?
Privatization and the Moral Origins of the Modern State
Ann Summers writes a powerful short essay on the moral origins and functions of the modern state, and the need for historians to defend them.
Social Welfare Reduction: A Shortcut to Prison
Silvia Croydon on the lessons UK politicians would do well to heed from Japan, where tough financial times have placed a growing burden of care on prisons
Greece: History Repeating Itself?
As Greece suffers economic austerity and sharp public spending cuts, the historian Violetta Hionidou looks at worrying echoes of the country’s wartime experience of extreme deprivation
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