Most of those incarcerated in mid-20th century Ireland were held in psychiatric hospitals, which have kept their secrets until today. This must change.
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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.
Top contributors
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University
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English for Academic Purposes Specialist, Anthropologist, Centre for English Teaching, University of Sydney
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Researcher, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter
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Professor of Public Policy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in the History of Education, UCL Institute of Education, UCL
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology, University of Southampton
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Sessional 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 Associate Professor of Film and Television, University of Nottingham
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Professor in Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Criminology, University College Dublin
