This book traces the word ‘progressive’ through modern British history, from the Enlightenment to Brexit. It explores the shifting meanings of this term and

Humanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century. Here, leading historians of religious non-belief Callum Brown, David Nash,

In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argu

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