Contested socialisms: the conflict between critical sociology and reform economics in communist Hungary, 1967–71
Rethinking the Bronxs Soundview Slums’: The Intersecting Histories of Large-scale Waterfront Redevelopment and Community-scaled Planning in an Era of Urban Renewal
Radical theatrics: put-ons, politics, and the sixties
The problem of sexual imbalance and techniques of the self in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
Historical tradition and community mobilisation: narratives of Red Clydeside in memories of the anti-poll tax movement in Scotland, 1988–1990
A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000: Recovery and Transformation after Two World Wars
Graphology in German psychiatry (1870-1930)
Europe’s refugee crisis: last time around was much, much worse
Fortune | G Strock/LIFE Picture Collection/Getty
Erasing Bisexual Identity: The Visibility and Invisibility of Bisexuality as a Sexual Identity in the Dutch Homosexual Movement, 1946-1972
The Progressive Era
Social Welfare History Project
The publication of Upton Sinclair’s book,The Jungle, exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry, generating widespread public support for federal inspection of meatpacking plants.
Radical voices, radical ways: Articulating and disseminating radicalism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain
The man who started the killings at Kent State: the Myron Pryor lie detector test
The Farmers Improvement Society and the Womens Barnyard Auxiliary of Texas: African American Community Building in the Progressive Era
Diabolical Rage? Children, Violence, and Demonic Possession in the Late Middle Ages
Post-Authoritarian State Formation in Argentina: Transitional Justice as the Accumulation of Symbolic Power
Taphophobia and ‘life preserving coffins in the nineteenth century
Imperial Plots Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies
Interface: Providence and the Populist Roots of a Downtown Revival
Refugee Resettlement Policy in an Era of Neoliberalization: A Policy Discourse Analysis of the Refugee Act of 1980
‘Socialism on the Bench’
A radical life in song
Policing the image: the Breakwater prison albums, Cape Town, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: diet, medicine and society, 1450–1800
Senseless Violence Against Central American Unaccompanied Minors: Historical Background and Call for Help
Ordering the urban body: professional planning in early twentieth-century Britain
Multiple femininities in two Russian women’s magazines, 1970s–1990s
Acid Hype: American new media and the psychedelic experience
“Uphill All the Way”: Grace Abbott and Women’s Work in Building the Welfare State
A plea for an eight hours bill (1890)
LSE
Willful Blindness
A Letter to the Right Hon Lord Althorp on the Injustice and other evils of the present system of poor laws (1833)
Afternoon tea at the library celebrates Edith Abbott
The Grand Island Independent | L Shultis
The Grand Island Public Library held a Victorian Tea Party in recognition of Edith Abbott’s 140th birthday.
Part of Our Lives: a people’s history of the American public library
Stature and sibship: historical evidence
Poverty and Welfare in Guernsey 1560–2015
The State, Convicts and Longitudinal Analysis
‘I never could forget my darling mother’: the language of recollection in a corpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence
Wisdom’s Workshop: the rise of the modern university
History: The McGill School of Social Workers
McGill School of Social Work Graduating Class of 1930 – McGill Archives
The Civil Rights Movement As Photographed By Stephen Somerstein
Radical social work: Refocusing social work, seeing more than the individual
History of Social Work
Dissatisfied with social work focusing too much on individuals and not addressing the social causes of distress, a number of practitioners launched Case Con, which described itself as a revolutionary magazine for social workers. The first issue appeared in 1970 and stopped being published in 1977 after 25 issues. The title Case Con referred to case conferences but also to the con, the dishonest trick, of reducing structural social problems to individual client`s own responsibility
Canadian Identity
Canadian Encyclopedia | The Canadian Press/C Bigras
More than one hundred Aboriginal people march on Parliament Hill, to protest the elimination of Aboriginal rights in the proposed constitution, on November 16, 1981.
‘The Women’s Branch of the Commonwealth Relations Office’: the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women and the long life of empire migration
History: School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh
‘An Utter Absence of National Feeling’: Australian Women and the International Suffrage Movement, 1900–14
ESP on Trial
The Scientist | Duke University Archives
DIVINING AN ANSWER: J.B. Rhine’s early experiments at Duke University employed a set of cards named “the Zener deck” after its inventor, Karl Zener, one of Rhine’s collaborators. The deck consists of 25 cards, with five of each symbol: square, circle, cross, squiggly lines, and star. Here, Rhine is shown testing a woman for ESP using the cards in the presence of an assistant (right).
The Limits of Liberal Planning: The Lindsay Administrations Failed Plan to Control Development on Staten Island
Wanting and Having: popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830–70