Oct 7, 2022 | Social history, Stories
As winter approaches, with fuel bills and inflationary pressures endangering the lives of the old and poor, the UK government should rightly be concerned to provide relevant advice and help. However, governments have not always been certain about how to do this. Back...
Jul 11, 2022 | Advertising and media, Stories
Alternative funding methods for the BBC have been discussed for years. Back in the 1980s, many viewers considered advertising an acceptable option. A collection of papers from the BBC, recently added to the Archive of Market and Social Research, suggests that over 30...
Jun 2, 2022 | Social history, Stories
Newspapers regularly report the affection that the majority of the British public have for the Queen. What do past polls say? The NOP Political Bulletin of November 1969 contained a special supplement entitled The Monarchy. It revealed that 84% of the population...
Nov 1, 2021 | stories archive
(Article updated October 2021) A recent (October 2020) poll by YouGov found 67% of the British public want Britain to be a world leader on environmental issues. And in February this year, YouGov also found that 75% thought climate change was the result of human...
Mar 3, 2021 | Social history, Stories
While we live in an era dominated by post-Brexit politics and the pandemic, new realities bring fresh perspectives on the same old perennial issues. One such issue recently brought back into focus was that of inequality: Labour leader Keir Starmer in his recent...
