People in history

The Tudors: This time it’s political
[11th September 2009]

As The Tudors returns to our screens on BBC Two, series creator Michael Hirst tells Sarah Gristwood that the drama is driving people back to history

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Woolworths Store, Tonbridge, a few days before closure
The shopping crisis: what can we learn from history?
[14th August 2009]

As the recession squeezes profits, Chris Bowlby asks Dr Sonia Ashmore how Britain’s flagship department stores have risen to the challenges of the past 150 years

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Glasgow 2005. Homeless man begs for change on streets on Glasgow
Charity: what can we learn from history?
[14th August 2009]

Government provides social care through the welfare state, but now politicians want charities involved. Will it work? Chris Bowlby finds out more from Dr Alex Mold

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 31: Uncollected garbage piling up in the street durin
The winter of discontent: what can we learn from history?
[13th August 2009]

James Moher talks to Chris Bowlby about the industrial crisis of 1978/9 and considers whether we could be heading for something similar 30 years later

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The school leaving age: what can we learn from history?
[13th August 2009]

As the Government plans to raise the school leaving age to 18, Nicola Sheldon explores whether history indicates this is a wise idea

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Stop and Search illu
Stop and search: what can we learn from history?
[12th August 2009]

In the latest of our History & Policy series, James Whitfield explains how the police can learn lessons from mistakes of the past to help prevent their powers of stop and search alienating sections of the community in the future

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youth crime
Youth culture and crime: what can we learn from history?
[12th August 2009]

In the first of a new series in partnership with History & Policy, we ask historians to teach us the lessons of the past. Dr Abigail Wills explains what history tells us about antisocial youth in Britain

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