Funding cuts and culture wars: history behind the headlines
HistoryExtra podcast
03/31/25
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In the latest episode of our monthly series, Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter discuss recent headlines about funding cuts to history departments in the UK’s universities - and we hear from Lucy Noakes, president of the Royal Historical Society, with her take on the situation.
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