by Mark Easton
1. A. Wolf, Does Education Matter? Myths about Education and Economic Growth (Penguin, 2002)
2. Leitch Review of Skills (HM Treasury, 2006), www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
3. Table A3.3, Education at a Glance (OECD, 2011), www.oecd.org
4. B. Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook 1: Cognitive Domain (David O. McKay, 1956)
5. Antonio Di Vittorio, An Economic History of Europe: From Expansion to Development (Routledge, 2006)
6. D. S. Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
7. I. Brinkley, The Knowledge Economy: How Knowledge Is Reshaping the Economic Life of Nations (The Work Foundation, 2008)
8. R. B. Freeman, ‘The great doubling: the challenge of the new global labor market’ in J. Edwards (ed.) Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream (The New York Press, 2007)
9. D. Tapscott and A. D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (Atlantic Books, 2007)
M is for Murder
1. C. Dexter, Last Bus to Woodstock (Macmillan, 1975)
2. F. Brookman and M. Maguire, Reducing Homicide: A Review of the Possibilities (Home Office, 2003)
3. Homicides, Firearms and Intimate Violence (Home Office, 2011)
4. D. Sethi, K. Hughes, M. Bellis et al. (eds.), European Report on Preventing Violence and Knife Crime Among Young People (World Health Organization, 2010)
5. P. Spierenburg, A History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (Polity, 2008)
6. F. Brookman, Understanding Homicide (SAGE Publications, 2005)
7. D. Freedman and D. Hemenway, ‘Precursors of lethal violence: a death row sample’ Social Science and Medicine, 50 (2000)
8. J. Gilligan, Violence: Reflections on our Deadliest Epidemic (Jessica Kinsley, 1999)
9. C. Lombroso, L’Uomo delinquente (Hoepli, 1876)
10. C. Goring (ed.), The English Convict: A Statistical Study (HMSO, 1913)
11. J. Blau and P. Blau, ‘The cost of inequality: metropolitan structure and violent crime’, American Sociological Review, 47 (1982)
12. M. Gottfredson and T. Hirschi, A General Theory of Crime (Stanford University Press, 1990)
N is for Numbers
1. J. Best, Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists (University of California Press, 2001)
2. J. Straw, Speech to Royal Statistical Society, 25 April 1995, www.rss.org.uk
3. Statistics: A Matter of Trust (TSO, 1998)
4. Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (United Nations, 1994), www.un.org/en
5. Report of the Rayner Review (HMSO, 1981)
6. Statistics Commission Annual Report 2007–08 (TSO, 2008), www.official-documents.gov.uk
7. History of the UK Statistical System, www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk
8. E. Pickles, ‘Townhall Waste and Duplication’, speech at Hammersmith & Fulham Townhall, 13 October 2010, www.communities.gov.uk/speeches
O is for Opium
1. R. Lart, ‘British medical perception from Rolleston to Brain: changing images of the addict and addiction’, International Journal on Drug Policy, 3 (1992)
2. R. Coomber, The Control of Drugs and Drug Users (Harwood Academic, 1998)
3. D. Bewley-Taylor, The United States and International Drug Control, 1909–1997 (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001)
4. H. G. Levine, ‘The secret of worldwide drug prohibition: the varieties and uses of drug prohibition’, Independent Review, 7 (2002)
5. W. B. McAllister, Drug Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century: An International History (Routledge, 2000)
6. J. Strang and M. Gossop, Heroin Addiction and the British System: Treatment and Policy Responses (Routledge, 2005)
7. Departmental Committee on Morphine and Heroin Addiction: The Report of the Rolleston Committee (HMSO, 1926)
8. R. Scott, K. Grime and V. Wilmer, Jazz at Ronnie Scott’s (Hale, 1979)
9. R. Yates, ‘A Brief History of British Drug Policy; 1950–2001’, Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 9 (2002)
10. After the War on Drugs: Options for Control (Transform Drug Policy Foundation, 2004)
11. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, World Drug Report 2011 (United Nations, 2011), www.unodc.org
12. Home Affairs Select Committee, The Government’s Drugs Policy: Is it Working? (TSO, 2002), www.publications.parliament.uk
P is for Poverty
1. T. Hanley, Engaging Public Support for Eradicating UK Poverty (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2009), www.jrf.org.uk
2. Society of Editors, Reporting Poverty in the UK: A Practical Guide for Journalists (2009, Joseph Rowntree Foundation), www.mediatrust.org
3. Pew Global Attitudes Project, The Global Middle Class (The Pew Research Center, 2009), www.pewglobal.org
4. L. Bamfield and T. Horton, Understanding Attitudes to Tackling Economic Inequality (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2009)
5. Work and Pensions Select Committee Second Report (TSO, 2008), www.publications.parliament.uk
6. S. Castell and J. Thompson, Understanding Attitudes to Poverty in the UK: Getting the Public’s Attention (Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Ipsos MORI, 2007)
7. M. J. Lerner, The Belief In a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion (Plenum Press, 1980)
8. L. D. Applebaum, M. C. Lennon and J. L. Aber, Public Attitudes Toward Low-income Families and Children (National Center for Children in Poverty, 2003), www.nccp.org
9. A. Furnham, The Psychology of Behaviour at Work (Psychology Press, 2005)
10. J. T. Jost and O. Hunyady, ‘The Psychology of System Justification and the Palliative Function of Ideology’, European Review of Social Psychology, 13 (2002)
11. A. Furnham, ‘The Protestant Work Ethic and Attitudes towards Unemployment’, Journal of Occupational Psychology, 55 (1982)
12. M. E. Rose, The English Poor Law: 1780–1930 (Barnes & Noble, 1971)
13. D. Gordon and C. Pantazis (eds.), Breadline Britain in the 1990s (Ashgate, 1997)
14. I. Townshend and S. Kennedy, Poverty: Measures and Targets (House of Commons Library, 2004), www.parliament.uk
Q is for Queen
1. K. Martin, The Magic of Monarchy (Knopf, 1937)
2. T. Nairn, The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy (Radius, 1988)
3. P. Smith, Cultural Theory: An Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001)
4. P. Barker, E. Bauer, B. Brown, et al, The Meaning of the Jubilee (Institute of Community Studies, 2002), www.youngfoundation.org
5. E. Shils and M. Young, ‘The Meaning of the Coronation’, The Sociological Review, 1 (1953)
6. J. M. T. Balmer, Comprehending the Constitutional Monarchies of Britain and Sweden: Issues of Trust and Corporate Brand Management (Bradford School of Management, 2005), www.bradford.ac.uk
7. T. Paine, Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America (1776)
8. W. Bagehot, The English Constitution (Chapman and Hall, 1867)
9. No Royal Rollercoaster (Ipsos MORI, 2002), www.ipsos-mori.com
10. D. Cannadine and S. Price (eds.), Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
R is for Regions
1. C. Tacitus, The Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, edited by R. M. Ogilvie, I. A. Richmond (c. AD 98; Oxford University Press, 1967)
2. D. Shillan, The Practice of Synthesis in the Works of Patrick Geddes (New Atlantis Foundation, 1972)
3. Royal Commission on Local Government in England: The Redcliffe-Maud Report (The National Archives, Cmnd 4040, 1969), www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
4. J. Prescott, Alternative Regional Strategy: A Framework for Discussion (Labour Party, 1982)
5. J. Bradbury, Devolution, Regionalism and Regional Development: The UK Experience (Routledge, 2008)
6. K. Meagher, ‘The r
eal battle for the future of the English regions is just beginning’, Labour Uncut, 4 November 2010, www.labour-uncut.co.uk
7. H. Elcock, Is English Regionalism Dead? Lessons after the North-East Referendum (University of Glamorgan, 2009)
8. The Association of British Counties, www.abcounties.co.uk
S is for Silly Hats
1. J. Timbs, English Eccentrics and Eccentricities (R. Bentley, 1866)
2. E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (eds.) The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
3. K. Grenier, Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770–1914: Creating Caledonia (Ashgate, 2005)
4. D. Willetts, Modern Conservatism (Penguin, 1992)
5. J. Dunleavy and G. Dunleavy, Douglas Hyde: A Maker of Modern Ireland (University of California Press, 1991)
6. J. T. Church, ‘Confabulations of community: the Hamefarins and political discourse on Shetland’, Anthropological Quarterly, 63 (1990)
T is for Toilet
1. L. Lambton, Temples of Convenience and Chambers of Delight (Pavilion, 1998)
2. R. Middlemist, E. Knowles and C. Matter, ‘Personal space invasions in the lavatory: suggestive evidence for arousal’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35 (1976)
3. S. Žižek, ‘Knee deep’, London Review of Books, 26 (2004)
4. C. Greed, Inclusive Urban Design: Public Toilets (Architectural Press, 2003)
5. G. Jones, Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain (Taylor & Francis, 1986)
6. S. Feldman, ‘Going to the ladies’, New Humanist, 125 (2010)
7. M. Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Routledge and K. Paul, 1966)
8. N. Elias, The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2000)
9. D. Erasmus, De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus (1530)
10. G. Della Casa, Galateo (1609)
11. R. Weste, The Booke of Demeanour and the Allowance and Disallowance of Certaine Misdemeanors in Companie (1619)
12. M. Allen, ‘From cesspool to sewer: sanitary reform and the rhetoric of resistance, 1848–1880’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 30 (2002)
13. E. Chadwick, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842; Edinburgh University Press, 1965)
14. The SCA Hygiene Report 2011 (SCA, 2011), www.sca.com
15. A brief history of the toilet, www.victoriaplumb.com
16. British Toilet Association, www.britloos.co.uk
U is for Umbrellas
1. J. Golinski, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment (The University of Chicago Press, 2007)
2. M. Hulme, ‘Geographical work at the boundaries of climate change’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33 (2008)
3. L. Boia, The Weather in the Imagination (Reaktion Books, 2005)
4. H. L. Jones, The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (Loeb Classical Library, 1923)
5. J. Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of the Air on Human Bodies (J. and R. Tonson, 1733), www.archive.org
6. D. Hume, The Philosophical Works, Volume 3 (Black and Tait, 1826; Little, Brown, 1954)
7. G. Manley, ‘Bad summers’, New Scientist, 16 October 1958
8. V. Janković, Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650–1820 (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
9. E. Howarth and M. S. Hoffman, ‘A Multidimensional approach to the relationship between mood and weather’, British Journal of Psychology, 75 (1984)
10. J. J. A. Denissen, L. Butalid, L. Penke et al. ‘The effects of weather on daily mood: a multilevel approach’, Emotion, 8 (2008)
11. R. Bechtel and A. Churchman (eds.), Handbook of Environmental Psychology (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
12. W. Sangster, Umbrellas and their History (Oxford University Press, 1855; Kessinger Publishing, 2010)
V is for Vegetables
1. World Carrot Museum, www.carrotmuseum.co.uk
2. D. Hollingsworth, ‘Changing patterns of food consumption in Britain’, Nutrition Bulletin, 2 (1974; 2007)
3. G. Markham, The English Huswife (1615; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1986)
4. R. Semba and M. Bloem (eds.), Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries (Humana Press, 2008)
5. M. Bufton, D. F. Smith and V. Berridge, ‘Conflict and compromise in the BMA Nutrition Committee 1947–1950’, Medical History, 47(2003), www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
6. Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration (The National Archives Cmnd 2175, 1904), www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
7. J. Burnett, Plenty and Want: A Social History of Food in England from 1815 to the Present Day (Routledge, 1989)
8. F. Le Gros Clark, The School Child and the Canteen (Hertfordshire County Council, 1942)
9. Ministry of Food, Annual Report of the National Food Survey Committee (HMSO, 1952)
10. B. Fine, The Political Economy of Diet, Health and Food Policy (Routledge, 1998)
W is for www
1. R. Kraut, M. Patterson, V. Lundmark, et al., ‘Internet paradox: a social technology that reduces social involvement and psychological well-being?’ American Psychological Association, 53 (1998)
2. W. Davies, You Don’t Know Me, but… Social Capital and Social Software (The Work Foundation, 2003), www.theworkfoundation.com
3. A. Morris, ‘E-literacy and the Grey Digital Divide’, Journal of Information Literacy, 1 (2007) N. Nie and L. Erbring, Internet and Society (Stanford University, 2000)
4. H. Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (Addison Wesley, 1993)
5. R. D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
6. B. Wellman and K. Hampton, ‘The Not So Global Village of Netville’, in B. Wellman and C. Haythornthwaite, The Internet in Everyday Life (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)
7. D. Devins, A. Darlow, A. Petrie et al., Connecting Communities to the Internet: Evaluation of the Wired Up Communities Programme (TSO, 2003)
8. Digital Britain, Final Report (DCMS & DBIS, 2009), www.official-documents.gov.uk
9. Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland, Making Good Society (Carnegie UK Trust, 2010)
X is for XXXX
1. A. Millwood Hargrave, Delete Expletives? (ASA, BBC, BSC, ITC, 2000)
2. T. Jay, ‘The utility and ubiquity of taboo words’, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4 (2009)
3. T. McEnery, Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present (Routledge, 2005)
4. T. Dalrymple, ‘Against vulgarity’, Spectator, 18 May 2011)
5. G. Hughes, Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English (Wiley-Blackwell, 1991)
6. J. Sharman, A Cursory History of Swearing (J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1884)
7. G. Hughes, An Encyclopedia of Swearing (M. E. Sharpe, 2006)
8. A. Montagu, The Anatomy of Swearing (The Macmillan Company, 1967)
9. J. Esbensen, The Use of F*** as a Rapport Management Strategy in British and American English (Griffith University, 2009)
10. T. Jay, Why We Curse: A Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech (John Benjamins, 2000)
11. T. Jay, Cursing in America (John Benjamins, 1992)
12. E. Partridge, Shakespeare’s Bawdy (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1947)
13. G. Colman, ‘To Mr Town’, The Connoisseur (1754)
14. J. Swift, Polite Conversation (Joseph Wenman, 1783)
15. R. Jones, Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
16. E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Smith, Elder, 1870)
17. P. Bordieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Harvard University Press, 1984)
18. L. Trotsky, ‘The Struggle of Cultured Speech’, Pravda, 16 May 1923
19. Audience Attitudes towards Offensive Language on Tele
vision and Radio (Ofcom, 2010)
Y is for Youth
1. P. Richard, R. Layard and J. Dunn, A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age (Penguin, 2009)
2. M. Easton, ‘The year we lost the kids’ (BBC, 2008), www.bbc.co.uk
3. M. Easton, ‘Thinking about children and crime’ (BBC, 2009), www.bbc.co.uk
4. M. Easton, ‘Bridging the generation gap’ (BBC, 2008), www.bbc.co.uk
5. An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries (UNICEF, 2007), www.unicef.org
6. J. Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (A. and J. Churchill, 1693)
7. L. DeMause, The History of Childhood (Psychohistory Press, 1974)
8. P. Aries, Centuries of Childhood (Penguin Books, 1979)
9. L. Pollock, Forgotten Children: Parent-Child Relations from 1500–1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
10. L. Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 (Weidenfeld, 1977)
11. J. Savage, Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875–1945 (Random House, 2008)
12. Bill Osgerby, Youth in Britain since 1945 (Blackwell Publishers, 1998)
13. D. Cameron MP, Speech to CSJ Kids Symposium, 10 June 2006
14. P. Scraton (ed.), ‘Childhood’ in ‘Crisis’? (UCL Press, 1997)
15. G. S. Hall, Adolescence (D. Appleton and Co., 1911)
Z is for Zzzz
1. Sleep Matters: The Impact of Sleep on Health and Wellbeing (Mental Health Foundation, 2011), www.howdidyousleep.org/media/downloads/MHF_Sleep_Matters_Report.pdf
2. C. Leadbeater, Dream On (Demos, 2004), www.demos.co.uk/publications/dreamon
3. R. Macnish, The Philosophy of Sleep (D. Appleton, 1834)