Peter Mandler

Mar 19, 2024 | historytoday.com | Peter Mandler

If like me you are a baby boomer of European extraction, then odds are that some of your grandparents were peasants. One of my grandmothers was born in a sod cabin of her father’s own construction on the Nebraska plains. One of my grandfathers made his living buying hides from peasants and selling them to leather makers in Slovakia.

Oct 18, 2023 | hepi.ac.uk | Peter Mandler

This blog was kindly written for HEPI by Professor Peter Mandler. Peter teaches Modern British History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, and is the author of The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War (2020). This blog is in a series that HEPI is running to mark the 60th anniversary of the Robbins Report’s publication in October 1963.

Sep 19, 2023 | historytoday.com | Peter Mandler

Since the 1990s three historians have entered the race to document as thickly as possible the postwar history of Britain. Peter Hennessy was the first starter, in 1992, but distracted by other concerns soon fell off the pace, managing to reach the early 1960s in three volumes. Dominic Sandbrook entered next, in 2005, cheating a little by starting at 1956, and has since yomped through the decades, producing five volumes taking us up to 1982. But perhaps slow and steady wins the race.

Mar 23, 2023 | dissentmagazine.org | Richard D. Kahlenberg |Charles Taylor |Phoebe Braithwaite |Peter Mandler

A New Path to Diversity The Supreme Court is poised to overturn race-based affirmative action. But preferences based on socioeconomic disadvantage—which are both politically popular and legally sound—could produce similarly high levels of diversity. Richard D.