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I went this week to a session of the Myths & Realities series, hosted by the British Library in association with the Academy of Social Sciences. The topic was: A property-owning democracy: myth or reality? The M&R is an excellent series … Continue reading →

I’ve long had a fascination with time, as a concept and as a fundamental structurer of our lives. I worked with the late Michael Young at the time he was writing his typically original but sadly neglected book The Metronomic Society, … Continue reading →

This is my first blog for Longview. Longview exists to promote longitudinal and lifecourse studies, and a blog is one way of gently raising some of the issues which confront us in carrying out that mission. In my day-to-day work I … Continue reading →