A welcome first for the Government’s re-constituted Social Mobility Commission is the inclusion of a sociologist. Dr Sam Friedman (LSE), a leading figure in the younger generation of mobility researchers,…

In a two part series, Dr Chamion Caballero discusses both the importance of having aspects of black British history recognised more widely as intrinsic parts of British history rather than…

It’s been a tumultuous few years. The 2016-18 roll call of events is familiar to us all: an unexpected vote to leave the EU, the election of the US’s least…

This is a year of race related anniversaries. While it is fifty years since Enoch Powell’s infamous address to the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Association, it is seventy years…

How is history written and by whom?  These are questions that have been raised with frequency across the decolonising movement and in particular, by the Cadaan Studies movement, which has focused on…

In 1970, CLR James, the Caribbean-born British historian and philosopher, was interviewed by the journal Black Scholar. James is perhaps most well-known for the publication of Black Jacobins, his account of the…

When the publisher’s approached us to produce a third edition of Thinking Sociologically, I contacted Zygmunt and asked what he thought about the idea. He thought it was a good one,…

As we celebrate the centenary of (some) women being able to vote in the UK (also see McLaughlin 2018) – a democratic right that many of us now take as…