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	<title>Professor Roger Middleton</title>
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	<description>Professor of the History of Political Economy, University of Bristol</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>TL reading update 26</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2008/06/04/tl-reading-update-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Thatcherism's Legacy (SS, TB I)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally catching up on a bit of journal reading, and need to draw attention to some recent issues of Political Quarterly.
Vol 79.2 (2008) has a symposium on inheritance tax.
Vol 79.1 (2008) has a symposium to mark the October 2007 inauguration of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Also caught my attention:
Crick, B. (2008) &#8216;The four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TGP reading update 9</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2008/04/03/tgp-reaqding-update-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Thatcherism: Genesis &amp; Performance (SF, TB II)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently told that the publicly funded (through JISC) Film &#038; Sound Online has some useful resources for studying the miner&#8217;s strike of 1984-5. You may need your Athens logon and password to gain access, depnding upon whether you are on the UoB campus network.
Items of interest are two productions by Amber Films &#8216;Where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TGP reading update 8</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2008/03/07/tgp-reading-update-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Thatcherism: Genesis &amp; Performance (SF, TB II)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new volume which looks promising (I&#8217;m due to review it for Twentieth Century British History and will let you know once I&#8217;ve read it):
Turner, R.S. (2008) Neo-liberal ideology: history, concepts and policies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Also, for various seminars:
Arestis, P. (2007) Is there a new consensus in macroeconomics? London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Eichenberg, R.C. (1989) Public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CdB reading update 7</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2008/03/07/cdb-reading-update-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Could do Better (LRU2, TB I)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst this unit is not currently running, I am conscious that students and other are using the materials. So an interim update of some recent reading:
Van Ark, B., O&#8217;Mahony, M. and Timmer, M.P. (2008) ‘The productivity gap between Europe and the United States: trends and causes’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22 (1), pp. 25-44.
Mo, P.H. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TGP reading update 7</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2008/02/14/tgp-reading-update-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Thatcherism's Legacy (SS, TB I)</category>
	<category>Thatcherism: Genesis &amp; Performance (SF, TB II)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across my desk this past couple of weeks (also of some relevance to TL):
The latest issue of the British Journal of Political Science, 38.2 (2008) has four papers of interest:
Jacobs, A.M. (2008) ‘The politics of when: redistribution, investment and policy making for the long term’, British Journal of Political Science, 38 (2), pp. 193-220.
Denny, K. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 25</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2007/12/14/tl-reading-update-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Thatcherism's Legacy (SS, TB I)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across my desk this week:
The latest issue of the EJ has two papers of particular interest, the first demonstratinbg that labour market flexibility has increased in Britain and the second a concise account of why the new political economy matters for policy:
Barwell, R.D. and Schweitzer, M.E. (2007) ‘The incidence of nominal and real wage rigidities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 24</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2007/12/02/tl-reading-update-24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Thatcherism's Legacy (SS, TB I)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across my desk this week:
The latest instalment of Heppell&#8217;s work on John Major:
Heppell, T. (2007) ‘A crisis of legitimacy: the Conservative party leadership of John Major’, Contemporary British History, 21 (4), pp. 471-90.
King, A. (2007) The British constitution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Intended as a C21st update of the C19th classic, Walter&#8217;s Bagehot&#8217;s The English [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 23</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2007/11/21/tl-reading-update-23-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Thatcherism's Legacy (SS, TB I)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across my desk this week:
McLaren, L. and Johnson, M. (2007) ‘Resources, group conflicts and symbols: explaining anti-immigration hostility in Britain’, Political Studies, 55 (4), pp. 709-32. [Makes good use of BSA materials to produce a conclusion that self-interest is not a prime determinant of attitudes towards immigration]
Latest volume in the Palgrave Contemporary Political Studies series:
Kuhn, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 22</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2007/11/08/tl-reading-update-22/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
	<category>Thatcherism's Legacy (SS, TB I)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just published the second volume of Selsdon&#8217;s life of Blair:
Seldon, A., Snowdon, P. and Collings, D. (2007) Blair unbound. London: Simon &#038; Schuster.
The introduction provides a key to understanding how interpretations of Blair&#8217;s premiership and legacy are likely to develop.
A useful paper for the Tories and Europe seminar in the way it discusses European having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 21</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2007/10/18/tl-reading-update-21/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Thatcherism's Legacy (SS, TB I)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just announced, and a really important development for contemporary British history, the Economist in conjunction with Gale, a publisher, has just completed the digitalisation of this magazine back to its inception; have a look at The Economist: Historical Archive, 1843-2003 and try some searches for yourself. This will be a fabulous resource for anyone doing [...]]]></description>
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