Best Graham CopeKoga Podcasts (2024)

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Trade Unions and Employment in a Market Economy

4+ y ago

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ONLINE SEMINAR Trade Unions and Employment in a Market Economy Thursday 21 May 2020, 6pm-8pm Andrew Brady will introduce his recent book: Unions and Employment in a Market Economy, Strategy, Influence and Power in Contemporary Britain (Routledge 2019) Other speakers included Sir Ian McCartney and Tom Wilson. The Seminar was chaired by Helen Hague A…

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Brexit and workers’ rights - Professor Simon Deakin

5y ago

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Brexit and workers’ rights 1 October 2019 - 18:30 pm - 20:30 pm Keating Chambers, 15 Essex St, Temple, London WC2R 3AA Chaired by Sarah Veale Professor Michael Gold and Professor Simon Deakin talk on ‘What the UK's membership of the EU has entailed for workers’ rights and how the UK might achieve dynamic alignment of these rights after Brexit.’…

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Brexit and workers’ rights - Professor Michael Gold

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Brexit and workers’ rights 1 October 2019 - 18:30 pm - 20:30 pm Keating Chambers, 15 Essex St, Temple, London WC2R 3AA Chaired by Sarah Veale Professor Michael Gold and Professor Simon Deakin talk on ‘What the UK's membership of the EU has entailed for workers’ rights and how the UK might achieve dynamic alignment of these rights after Brexit.’…

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Professor Shurlee Swain - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries

5y ago

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9 September 2019 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Anatomy Museum, King's College London, 6th floor, King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Over the past twenty years, a growing number of countries have established national inquiries in relation to historic child abuse, encompassing investigations of abuse in residential institutions and foster-care, as well…

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Professor Pirjo Markkola - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries

5y ago

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9 September 2019 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Anatomy Museum, King's College London, 6th floor, King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Over the past twenty years, a growing number of countries have established national inquiries in relation to historic child abuse, encompassing investigations of abuse in residential institutions and foster-care, as well…

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Professor Johanna Sköld - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries

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9 September 2019 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Anatomy Museum, King's College London, 6th floor, King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Over the past twenty years, a growing number of countries have established national inquiries in relation to historic child abuse, encompassing investigations of abuse in residential institutions and foster-care, as well…

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Professor Eoin O’Sullivan - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries

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9 September 2019 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Anatomy Museum, King's College London, 6th floor, King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Over the past twenty years, a growing number of countries have established national inquiries in relation to historic child abuse, encompassing investigations of abuse in residential institutions and foster-care, as well…

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Peter Ackers - In Place of Strife (1969)

5+ y ago

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Peter Ackers, co-editor, Alternatives to State-Socialism, Palgrave 2016. In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle Whit…

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Joe Dromey - In Place of Strife (1969)

5+ y ago

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Joe Dromey, author, Power to the People: How stronger unions can deliver economic justice, IPPR 2018 In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions …

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Roger Jeary - In Place of Strife (1969)

5+ y ago

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Roger Jeary In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments o…

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David Lyddon - In Place of Strife (1969)

5+ y ago

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David Lyddon, co- editor journal Historical Studies in Industrial Relations In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle W…

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Peter Dorey - In Place of Strife (1969)

5+ y ago

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Peter Dorey, author Comrades in Conflict: Labour, the Trade Unions & In Place of Strife (1969), Manchester 2019 In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the tr…

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Welcome and Keynote - History & Policy: an international conference

6y ago

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Dr Andrew Blick (King’s College London and Director, History & Policy) Professor Simon Szreter (Cambridge and Managing Editor, History & Policy)By History & Policy

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Dane Kennedy - Brexit and the legacies of empire

6y ago

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Dane Kennedy (National History Center): Brexit and the Legacies of Empire Although Britain lost its empire some fifty years ago, this talk will argue that the legacies of its imperial past have helped shape the debate surrounding Brexit and Britain’s future. I intend to (1) note the historical forces that brought an end to Britain’s empire and led …

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David Lowe - Trump tumult and the Australian-American alliance in historical perspective

6y ago

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David Lowe (Australian Policy and History): Trump tumult and the Australian-American alliance in historical perspective The Trump phenomenon has caused many governments to think hard about the nature of their relationships with the United States. In the case of Australia, amidst the shock and confusion, it may even trigger the sort of questioning o…

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Klaus Neumann - Forced migration, policy making, and the uses and abuses of history

6y ago

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Klaus Neumann (Deakin University, Melbourne): Forced migration, policy making, and the uses and abuses of history Drawing on examples from Germany and Australia, I reflect on the role of historicized and remembered pasts in the recent so-called refugee crisis. I am particularly interested in why and how the events of 2012-2013 (in Australia) and 20…

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Jennifer Crane - The Place of Activism in History & Policy

6y ago

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Jennifer Crane (Warwick): ‘The NHS … should not be condemned to the history books’: The Place of Activism in History & Policy. In a public event in South Wales in June 2017, one participant stated that the NHS must not be ‘condemned to the history books’ alone. This critical comment raises a series of questions about the relationships between histo…

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Sally Sheard - Learning from history: NHS plans

6y ago

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Sally Sheard (Liverpool): Learning from history: NHS plans For the first 26 years, the NHS was left to run without major reform or reorganisation. Although planning emerged as a concern in the 1960s, linked to desires to increase effectiveness and efficiency, it wasn't until the 1980s, and the introduction of general management, that there was the …

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Roberta Bivins - Prompting critical reflection on medical responses to migration

6y ago

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Roberta Bivins (Warwick): 'Stop reinventing the Wheel: Prompting critical reflection on medical responses to migration' Today, migration is framed as a crisis, and often one of unprecedented scale, complexity and diversity. Yet from a historian's perspective, neither this language nor the phenomena described by it are novel. Globally, the second ha…

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Carolyn Holbrook - Failure to Attach: Australians and their Federation

6y ago

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Carolyn Holbrook (Australian Policy and History): Failure to Attach: Australians and their Federation The Australian federation was hailed as a beacon of democratic governance at the time of its establishment in 1901—a cutting-edge fusion of representative and federal ideals. The shimmer faded rapidly, however. Deficiencies such as service duplicat…

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James Grossman - History, Public Memory, Celebration, and/or Commemoration: US Confederate Monuments and Public Policy

6y ago

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James Grossman (American Historical Association): History, Public Memory, Celebration, and/or Commemoration: US Confederate Monuments and Public Policy Why does it matter whom we choose to memorialize in public spaces? Are military heroism and sacrifice inevitably tied to the purpose of that war? Jim Grossman is Executive Director of the American H…

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Pawan Singh - Biometrics, identity and privacy in India

6y ago

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Pawan Singh (Deakin University, Melbourne): Biometrics, identity and privacy in India In 2018, the Indian Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of mandatory Aadhaar, the Indian government's biometric programme that was launched in 2009 and challenged in the Supreme Court 2010 onwards. Civil society groups, lawyers and pro-privacy activis…

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Joanna Cruickshank - History, Law and Treaty-Making with Indigenous Peoples in Australia

6y ago

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Joanna Cruickshank (Deakin University, Melbourne): History, Law and Treaty-Making with Indigenous Peoples in Australia In February 2016, the Victorian state government became the first Australian jurisdiction to announce its intention to work towards a treaty with Indigenous people. As of late 2018, the treaty process is well underway. In this pape…

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Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell - Reforming the Civil Service: the Haldane report, 100 years on

6y ago

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Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell. In his forty-year career, Lord Butler has served as Private Secretary to five Prime Ministers and was Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service from 1988 to 1998. In addition to the many momentous political shifts in that time he has overseen an important period of change in the history of the Civ…

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Professor Vernon Bogdanor - Reforming the Civil Service: the Haldane report, 100 years on

6y ago

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Professor Vernon Bogdanor is Research Professor at the Centre for British Politics and Government at King’s College London. As one of Britain’s foremost constitutional experts he has written widely on British politics and the constitution and frequently advised governments and parliamentary bodies. 14 November 2018 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Council Roo…

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Jill Pellew - Regulation, inspection and extreme risk: The history behind the Grenfell Tower tragedy

6y ago

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Dr Jill Pellew FRHistS Senior Research Fellow Institute of Historical Research, SAS University of London WC1E 7HU Wednesday 17 October: 5:00pm - 7:00pm History, Faculty of, Room 6, West Road, CB3 9EF The Grenfell Tower fire is generally agreed to have been the worst tragedy of unnecessary loss of life in Britain since the Aberfan disaster of 1966. …

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Ewen Shane - Regulation, inspection and extreme risk: The history behind the Grenfell Tower tragedy

6y ago

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Due to illness, Ewen Shane talk was given by Professor Simon Szreter. Shane Ewen is Reader in Urban History at Leeds Beckett University. He is Co-Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’. He has written extensively about the history of Britain’s fire…

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Michael Jay - Une sortie sans accord? The French view of Brexit

6y ago

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15 October 2018 - 18:30 pm - 19:30 pm River Room, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS As Brexit negotiations proceed, all eyes are on the actions and perspectives of the UK government and the European Commission – but how do the perspectives of other major EU member nations feed into the process? British history has often been deployed b…

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Dr Sophie Loussouarn - Une sortie sans accord? The French view of Brexit

6y ago

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15 October 2018 - 18:30 pm - 19:30 pm River Room, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS As Brexit negotiations proceed, all eyes are on the actions and perspectives of the UK government and the European Commission – but how do the perspectives of other major EU member nations feed into the process? British history has often been deployed b…

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Gail Cartmail - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC

6y ago

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Gail Cartmail, Assistant General Secretary, UNITE Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the Briti…

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Michael Gold - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC

6y ago

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Michael Gold, Professor of Comparative Employment Relations, Royal Holloway University of London Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suff…

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Laura Cohen - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC

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Laura Cohen, CEO, British Ceramic Confederation Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British…

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Lord John Monks and Nick Jones - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC

6y ago

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Lord John Monks, General Secretary of the TUC 1993-2003 Nick Jones, journalist and broadcaser, and former BBC industrial and senior political correspondent 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the…

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Peter Ackers - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC

6y ago

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Peter Ackers, Visiting Professor, Loughborough University 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and indust…

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Dr James Moher - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC

6y ago

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Dr James Moher, a former union official and historian of the Labour movement 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wide…

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John Edmonds - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC

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John Edmonds, former General Council chair and GMB General Secretary 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social…

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Mark Curthoys - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC

6y ago

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Mark Curthoys, research editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider soc…

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Paul Nowak - Democracy at Work: 150 years of the TUC

6y ago

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Paul Nowak, TUC Deputy General Secretary 6 October 2018 - 10:00 am - 17:00 pm Lecture Room 3, Bush House (North East Wing), King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their wider social and industrial aims and rig…

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Helen Glew - Why is equal pay for women so difficult to achieve?

6+ y ago

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20 June 2018 - 18:00 pm - 20:00 pm Room K-1.56, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS In spite of Equal Pay Laws and House of Commons Resolutions, there is still a gender pay gap in Britain - and hear an analysis of the recently gathered gender pay reports of large companies from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. History and Polic…

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Sue Coe - Why is equal pay for women so difficult to achieve?

6+ y ago

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20 June 2018 - 18:00 pm - 20:00 pm Room K-1.56, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS In spite of Equal Pay Laws and House of Commons Resolutions, there is still a gender pay gap in Britain - and hear an analysis of the recently gathered gender pay reports of large companies from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. History and Polic…

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Professor Kevin Theakston - Reforming the Civil Service: the Fulton Report, 50 years on

6+ y ago

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Professor Kevin Theakston, Professor of British Government at the University of Leeds, and co-author of William Armstrong and British Policy Making (Palgrave Macmillan 2018). Armstrong was the inaugural head of the Civil Service Department, the establishment of which Fulton recommended, and was charged with implementing the Report. Reforming the Ci…

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Lord Richard Wilson - Reforming the Civil Service: the Fulton Report, 50 years on

6+ y ago

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Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton is a crossbench peer and former Head of the Civil Service. His 36-year career there began in 1966 (the year the Fulton Committee began its deliberations) at the Board of Trade, and has included service in the Department of Energy, the Cabinet Office, the Department of the Environment and the Home Office before…

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Dr Catherine Haddon - Reforming the Civil Service: the Fulton Report, 50 years on

6+ y ago

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Dr Catherine Haddon, Senior Fellow and Resident Historian at the Institute for Government. Dr Haddon specialises in the history of Whitehall and the evolution of civil service reform. Reforming the Civil Service: the Fulton Report, 50 years on 9 June 2018 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Room 2.03, Bush House (South Wing), King's College London, Strand WC2R 1…

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Sir Richard Mottram - Reforming the Civil Service: the Next Steps report, 30 years on

6+ y ago

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Sir Richard Mottram 22 May 2018 - 18:15 pm - 19:45 pm Council Room, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS In 1988 the official report Improving Efficiency in Government: The Next Steps appeared in its final form. It led on to one of the most substantial reconfigurations the UK machinery of government has seen, with the allocation of a wide…

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Kate Jenkins - Reforming the Civil Service: the Next Steps report, 30 years on

6+ y ago

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Kate Jenkins 22 May 2018 - 18:15 pm - 19:45 pm Council Room, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS In 1988 the official report Improving Efficiency in Government: The Next Steps appeared in its final form. It led on to one of the most substantial reconfigurations the UK machinery of government has seen, with the allocation of a wide range …

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Promoting democracy: past and present lessons for Iran, Egypt and beyond

6+ y ago

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Alex Loktionov of Robinson College, Cambridge. 22 February 2018 - 16:00 pm - 18:00 pm Room 1.03, Bush House (North East Wing), 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG How can the past - even the ancient past - help democracy advocates understand the societies they are working in? Mariam Memarsadeghi, Iranian-American human rights and democracy advocate and co-…

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Race, Female Suffrage, and Parliamentary Representation in the Global South

6+ y ago

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Carole Spary - University of Nottingham 9 February 2018 - 10:15 am - 14:45 pm Palace of Westminster, London SW1A 2PW How can global and historical movements for women’s political rights provide models for achieving racial and gender equality in the British political arena? On the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, this one-day …

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