https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/completedprojects/rethinkingthemarket/publications/ The latest from Rethinking the Market » Activities and Outputs (tag [British Politics]) en-GB (C) 2026 University of Warwick Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:12:54 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss SiteBuilder2, University of Warwick, http://go.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder Adam Smith Agenda asset management industry Balsillie School of International Affairs Baltimore BBC Belgrade Theatre Benjamin M, Friedman Birmingham Black History Month BlackRock blog post book book chapter book launch book review book talk Brexit Bristol Britain Alone British Journal of Sociology British Museum British Politics Cambridge careers talk China Plate Civil Service Fast Stream Colombo Telegraph Colonial Hangover Columbia University Press Competition and Change competition law Conservative Party conspicuous consumption Copenhagen Copenhagen Business School Coventry Covid crisis crisis Critical Political Economy Research Network Daily Telegraph Daniela Tepe Dark Luxury David Edgar David Ricardo decolonisation discussant Donald Trump DSGE models Dublin Eastbourne economic modelling Economic Record economic theory Economy and Society edited collection eighteenth century Empire epistemic injustice European Sociological Association Exploring Economics Faculti False Prophets of Economics Imperialism financialisation Financial Times Firesouls fiscal black hole Fools' Gold free market models From Values to Virtues Glasgow global financial crisis Harriet Martineau Hendon Historical Association history curriculum history of economic thought In Our Time Institute of Art and Ideas International Karl Polanyi Society James Clerk Maxwell Jeremy Hunt Joseph-Louis Lagrange journal article Karl Polanyi keynote address King Edward VI College King's College London Labour Party Leeds letter to newspaper Liam Stanley Liverpool Llandudno Lloyds Bank lockdown London London Review of Education LSE Lyng Hall macroeconomic models magazine article Mais Lecture Malmo Manchester Manchester University Press Mark Pennington masterclass mathematisation of the market model Mela Melvyn Bragg Michael Gove Naked Capitalism neoliberalism Newcastle New Political Economy Nuneaton online feature OUP outreach Oxford PAIS Palgrave paper presentation Paris pecha kucha Peter Kerr podcast policy briefing paper Political Economy for the End Times Political Quarterly Political Studies Association politics and performance poster public talk Queen Mary RADA recognitional politics Review of International Political Economy Review of Social Economy Rishi Sunak robinson crusoe roundtable discussion Routledge school curriculum schools day scientific unification Sheffield Sir John Talbot's School SOAS Social Foundations of Finance Sorbonne Nouvelle Southampton Speri Steven Kettell summer school Sutton Trust talk tariffs Tax Justice Network teaching session theatre group The Baffler The Conversation The Guardian The Hague The Market Thorstein Veblen Tim Sinclair tobacco merchants Trussonomics Trying It On Uneconomic Economics University of Edinburgh University of Sheffield University of the Arts London University of Warwick University of Waterloo Vienna Warwick Warwick Arts Centre West Midlands IPE Workshop What Went Wrong with Britain Whitchurch widening participation Witten working paper workshop participation Untagged https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/completedprojects/rethinkingthemarket/publications/?newsItem=8a17841b6b2d9d3c016b32ee8feb33a0 <div class="news-thumbnail" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><img class="thumbnail" width="100" height="100" src="https://warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/file/fac/soc/pais/research/completedprojects/rethinkingthemarket/publications?sbrPage=%2Ffac%2Fsoc%2Fpais%2Fresearch%2Fcompletedprojects%2Frethinkingthemarket%2Fpublications&newsItem=8a17841b6b2d9d3c016b32ee8feb33a0" alt="image"></div><p>Title: 'Michael Gove's War on Professional Historical Expertise: Conservative Curriculum Reform, Extreme Whig History and the Place of Imperial Heroes in Modern Multicultural Britain', <em>British</em> <em>Politics</em>, published online, May 19th 2019. DOI: <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41293-019-00118-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10.1057/s41293-019-00118-3</a>.</p> <p>Abstract: Six years of continuously baiting his opponents within the history profession eventually amounted to little where it mattered most. UK Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, finally backtracked in 2013 on his plans to impose a curriculum for English schools based on a linear chronology of the achievements of British national heroes. His 'history as celebration' curriculum was designed to instil pride amongst students in a supposedly shared national past, but would merely have accentuated how many students in modern multicultural Britain fail to recognise themselves in what is taught in school history lessons. Now that the dust has settled on Gove's tenure as Secretary of State, the time is right for retrospective analysis of how his plans for the history curriculum made it quite so far. How did he construct an 'ideological' conception of expertise which allowed him to go toe-to-toe for so long with the 'professional' expertise of academic historians and history teachers? What does the content of this ideological expertise tell us about the politics of race within Conservative Party curriculum reform? This article answers these questions to characterise Gove as a 'whig historian' of a wilfully extreme nature in his attachment to imperial heroes as the best way to teach national history in modern multicultural Britain.</p> journal article Michael Gove history curriculum British Politics Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:13:00 GMT 8a17841b6b2d9d3c016b32ee8feb33a0