Chetun Patel
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Postgraduate lecturer in Contemporary British Political and Economic History, King's College London
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Delighted to announce that I have attained my doctorate for a thesis entitled 'The Road to 1997: Bank of England Operational Independence in Historical Perspective' Thanks to
@kingsbschool.bsky.social
@officialedballs.bsky.social
@strandgroup.bsky.social
@jonmdavis.bsky.social
for their support
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Jack Brown
23 days ago
Wonderful as always to take our
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'London: Governing the Global City' class to the Guildhall to discuss the ancient City of London's role in London, the UK and the world. Not sure whose bright idea was it to take a class pic in the crypt... ๐ก๐ฌ
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Employability - serving civil service and
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MA Government Studies student
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Tom gives our students a masterclass on the civil service fast stream application process
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Case study week on the 'Chancellors and the Treasury' module on
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MA Government Studies - Expert advisers
@nickmacpherson.bsky.social
@officialedballs.bsky.social
prep students before they re-enact the day UK left the ERM in Sep 1992, a historic and chaotic 24 hours
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Strand Group KCL
about 1 month ago
Watch last week's insightful Strand Group /
@policyatkings.bsky.social
event with Secretary of State for Scotland Douglas Alexander 'in conversation' with our Visiting Professor Catherine MacLeod.
thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/in-con...
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In Conversation with Douglas Alexander MP - The Strand Group
The seventy-eighth Strand Group event, in partnership with the Policy Institute, took place on 15 October when Douglas Alexander, the Secretary of State for Scotland, discussed the challenges and comp...
https://thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/in-conversation-with-douglas-alexander-mp/
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Jack Brown
about 1 month ago
Great that
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, political advisor and former Chief of Staff to Mayor Ken Livingstone, could join our London government module for the first time last week. Some serious insights into the mayoralty, alongside some excellent Trafalgar Square Pigeon discussion
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Dr Michelle Clement
about 1 month ago
Delighted to welcome a new cohort of MA Government Studies students to โThe History of the Civil Serviceโ module
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Over 10 weeks we examine how the Civil Service has evolved alongside changing role of the state Applications for 2026/27 open
www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Case study week on the 'Chancellors and the Treasury' module on
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MA Government Studies - Expert advisers
@nickmacpherson.bsky.social
and
@officialedballs.bsky.social
help prep students before they re-enact debates over the 1976 IMF crisis
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Wonderful start to the 'Chancellors and the Treasury' module on
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MA Government Studies - BOE Deputy Governor Sir Dave Ramsden explained the big themes in Treasury history to a mixed class of
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students and Treasury officials.
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Jack Brown
about 1 month ago
...and delighted to welcome Natan Doron, Mayoral Head of Policy at the GLA, to talk us through the challenges and opportunities faced by the capital today. Our students getting a crash course into what it's really like to govern one of the world's greatest cities (2/2)
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Jack Brown
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All smiles as we're back underway with our 'London: Governing the Global City' module on
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MA Government Studies - Prof Tony Travers delivering his masterful '2000 years of London history in 45 mins' lecture to kick off... (1/2)
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Strand Group KCL
2 months ago
Join us on 15 October at 1830 for an in conversation event with Douglas Alexander the Secretary of State for Scotland. To apply for tickets:
thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/in-con...
In partnership with
@policyatkings.bsky.social
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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In Conversation with Douglas Alexander MP - The Strand Group
The seventy-eighth Strand Group event will take place on 15 October where Douglas Alexander, the Secretary of State for Scotland, will discuss the challenges and complexities governments are navigatin...
https://thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/in-conversation-with-douglas-alexander-mp/
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Great to hear Prof
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describing to ex-Chancellor Kwarteng how history repeats itself in the
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'Chancellors and the Treasury' MA class on latest political currency pod. Sign up to join the MA this Autumn ๐๐ฝ
www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Dr Michelle Clement
6 months ago
Thank you to all who came to my book launch for โThe Art of Deliveryโ with Sir Michael Barber
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Incredible to have such an engaged audience of 300 people, inc cabinet secretaries and students past & present
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www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...
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Great article citing the "What should the UK learn from 'Bidenomics'?" paper co-authored by
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discussed at Strand Group 74, events arm of MA Government Studies
thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/what-s...
Sign up to join the MA this autumn ๐๐ฝ
www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Jack Brown
8 months ago
Extremely grateful to Dr Simon Case for delivering a superb session for our 'Conservative Years, 2010-24' module this morning. Few people better placed to share insights from the very centre of government across these years. Sign up to join us next year:
www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Jonathan Portes
9 months ago
I see Chris Philp is now repeating Matt Goodwin's deliberate lie. The correct figure is 17%, and most of those are long-standing residents (and in many cases will have British spouses/children).
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John Rentoul
9 months ago
Latest thoughts from Lawrence Freedman
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Strand Group KCL
9 months ago
Honoured to welcome King's legend Prof Sir Lawry Freedman to the 'Pivotal Prime Ministerial Decision-Making' class on the Falklands - quite something to have the Official Historian co-teaching! Join us this Autumn:
www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Delighted to announce that I have attained my doctorate for a thesis entitled 'The Road to 1997: Bank of England Operational Independence in Historical Perspective' Thanks to
@kingsbschool.bsky.social
@officialedballs.bsky.social
@strandgroup.bsky.social
@jonmdavis.bsky.social
for their support
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Strand Group KCL
10 months ago
Thank you to Anji Hunter and Sue Nye for an extraordinary special guest class on โThe New Labour Yearsโ Taught by
@mlclem.bsky.social
@rentouljohn.bsky.social
the module forms part of our MA Government Studies, find out more here ๐
www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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It's been a great honour and pleasure to lead this year's module - in its 10th year! - with
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,
@nickmacpherson.bsky.social
, Mario Pisani, Sir Tom Scholar, Sir Dave Ramsden, Jessica Pulay, Sophie Dean, Rupert Harrison, Mark Bowman, Catherine MacLeod and Jeremy Hunt.
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