Category: Society and politics

Research investigates conversations with the dead in Stoke

26 October 2015

The lid is lifted on an ordinary Midlands town to reveal its Spiritualist past as part of an OU research project. Spirited Stoke is a two-year research investigation considering the origins of Spirituality in the city of Stoke on Trent. Spiritualism has been part of Stoke-on-Trent’s history since at least the 1870s and one church […]

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London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago

1 October 2015

Anger over government housing policy is undoubtedly one of the running themes of the 2010s. Most recently we have seen anti-gentrification protests in east London over people being pushed out due to huge increases in private rent costs and a lack of social housing, which made headlines for targeting the hipster Cereal Killer Cafe in […]

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