Status has long been a core concept motivating sociology as a discipline. As related to the
positioning and valuing of individuals, status often takes the form of reputation. How is an …

The Afterlife of Empire is an award-winning investigation on how decolonization transformed
British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic …

In July 2014, then Home Secretary Theresa May established an Independent Inquiry into
Child Abuse to 'consider whether public bodies—and other, non-state, institutions—have …

Storytelling is a fundamental part of human interaction; it is also deeply social and political in
nature. In this article, I explore reproductive storytelling as a phenomenon of sociological …

What do our possessions say about us? More specifically what do they say about our past,
present and our future? Many families possess a “family archive”; documents, photographs …

Does childhood health capital affect long-run labor market success? We address this
question using inpatient hospital records linked to population census records. Sibling fixed …

This book is the product of four decades of teaching and research. What has been clear to
me for a long time is that Irish social policy, and its institutional manifestation as a welfare …

Ohio at the end of the Second World War; he had been stationed in England for much of his
time away. He had a confession to make to his wife, Betty. In February 1949 she recounted …

Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community
in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its …

Histories of family secrecy are often emotionally, morally, and politically ambivalent. They
entail fear, shame, pain, and repression, but they also often involve solicitude, tenderness …