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Are cricket fans bowled over by new formats? (Updated 2025)
Cricket: Tests and Challenges. The Test Cricket series just ended between England and India is being called one for the ages. For those who had...
AMSR Summer event 10th June 2025
Our speakers and sponsors – full event video available here. The Archive: 'not a vault but a bridge connecting generations' Despite the...
Has corporal punishment of children been banished?
By parents: Britain is practically alone in Europe in not having legislation banning corporal punishment in the home. Across Europe, 22 countries...
Was The Good Life ahead of its time?
It’s not often that a TV sitcom changes the habits of millions. But ‘The Good Life’ was unusual in having a very positive effect. Most sitcoms...
Is support for capital punishment growing?
Arguments against the death penalty had been advanced in the 1950s, with a particular boost for abolition resulting from the case of Ruth Ellis, a...
Richard Asquith takes over as AMSR Chief Executive
Richard AsquithPress release – for publication on 22nd January 2025 Richard Asquith is to take over from Adam Phillips as Chief Executive of the...