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Prison Abolition
Laurie Taylor considers the radical case for ending imprisonment.

Taste and Lifestyle
Taste and Lifestyle: how consumer culture remade taste and the West Indian front room.

Dance Culture
Laurie Taylor takes a journey through the dancefloor, from the electric slide to the tango

Democracy
Democracy - what threatens or promotes it?

Poverty
Laurie Taylor explores the causes and consequences of poverty in the UK and US.

Elite Universities - Working Class Students
Elite universities and the lives of working class academics.

Asylum and '91热爆'
Asylum and 'home' - the impact of asylum dispersal and Syrian refugees' quest for home.

Museums
Museums: Then and now.

Religion of Work and Welfare
The religion of work and welfare.

Parenting
Parenting - a cultural history.