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Footwear
Footwear: the 'magic' and the material reality.
Prison Protest
Prison protest: from riots to hunger strikes.
Psychiatry: a social history
Psychiatry: Laurie Taylor explores the history of modern psychiatric practice.
Workplace Misbehaviour
Workplace misbehaviour: how has it changed over the years?
Covid and change
Covid: how has it changed our economy and home lives?
Wealth - Plutocratic London
Plutocratic London and dynastic wealth.
Ballroom dancing
Ballroom dancing: its social history and sexual politics.
Shopping
The history of the high street. Also, dreams of consumption.
Package holidays and 'authentic' travel
Package holidays and ‘authentic’ travel: Laurie Taylor on the origins of budget tourism.
Survival of the city
Survival of the city: how do cities manage to thrive and re-invent in the face of threats?
The Sea
The Sea - the privatisation of our oceans and the threat of plastic pollution.
Gentrification revisited
Exploring the myth and reality six decades after the term gentrification was coined.
Rules and Order
Are we are more orderly society than in the past?
Futilitarianism - Extreme Pessimists
Laurie Taylor talks to Neil Vallelly about current feelings of futility and uselessness.
Gender and Alcohol
Gender and alcohol - the craft drink scene and what constitutes a 'proper night out'?
Protests
Protests: from Occupy to MeToo and Iran.
The NHS
The NHS and the 'sick note'.
The Internet - how it shapes the past and the future
The Internet - how it shapes our understanding of the past and the future.
The football pools - mass investment
Betting and investment - what are the connections and the differences?
Self-improvement
Self-improvement: are 'wellness' and 'confidence' cultures enhancing our lives?
Dirty Work
Dirty work - the invisible labour we choose not to see.
Parenting
Parenting - a cultural history.
Religion of Work and Welfare
The religion of work and welfare.
Museums
Museums: Then and now.
Asylum and 'Â鶹ԼÅÄ'
Asylum and 'home' - the impact of asylum dispersal and Syrian refugees' quest for home.
Elite Universities - Working Class Students
Elite universities and the lives of working class academics.
Poverty
Laurie Taylor explores the causes and consequences of poverty in the UK and US.
Democracy
Democracy - what threatens or promotes it?
Dance Culture
Laurie Taylor takes a journey through the dancefloor, from the electric slide to the tango
Taste and Lifestyle
Taste and Lifestyle: how consumer culture remade taste and the West Indian front room.
Prison Abolition
Laurie Taylor considers the radical case for ending imprisonment.