Surveying public opinion in Britain towards immigration in the 1960s
Ben Clements Ben Clements is Associate Professor in Politics, in the School of History, Politics and International Relations. University of Leicester. His research interests include British public opinion towards foreign and defence policy in the post-war period. He...
What happened to Homebase?
Homebase featured on our High Streets (or more often Retail Parks) for over 40 years, but the name has now disappeared. The BBC Radio 4 programme: Toast covered Homebase recently: Sliced Bread – Toast – Homebase – BBC Sounds AMSR can track the...
Did market research save Jilly Cooper’s career?
The news of the sad death of Jilly Cooper brings to mind the report in the Archive on the Sunday Times and other quality newspaper circulation trends in the sixties. This was illustrated by a hand-drawn chart, as this was before the invention of Powerpoint. As can be...