A growing number of Republicans say that you shouldn’t be able to divorce simply because you’ve fallen out of love. It’s an idea with a long history.
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The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
Most of those incarcerated in mid-20th century Ireland were held in psychiatric hospitals, which have kept their secrets until today. This must change.
The beach is synonymous with the Australian summer. But it has a long - and varied - history in this country too.
Cinema is the most popular firm of cultural participation, but rising ticket prices threaten that.
Some houses are like a time capsule of social history that can tell us how living standards, and fashions, have changed over the years.
Most people assume drugs are illegal because they are dangerous, but the reasons aren’t related to their relative risk or harm.
Thousands queued to buy the report by William Beveridge that would lay the foundations for Britain’s modern welfare state.
The history of how the British fell out of love with seasonal farm work.
Is a formal apology to the 1978 Mardi Gras marchers warranted? Some understanding of the oppressive social conditions affecting the lives of sexual minorities in Australia in that era is required.
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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English for Academic Purposes Specialist, Anthropologist, Centre for English Teaching, University of Sydney
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Professor of Family Law, University of South Carolina
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter
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Professor of Public Policy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Social History, UCL
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology, University of Southampton
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Professor of Design History & Theory; Associate Dean (Research), University of Portsmouth
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Director, Institute for Screen Industries Research and Professor of Film Industries, University of Nottingham
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Professor in Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Criminology, University College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Bangor University
