3 July 2012, Senate House, London
This one day conference will bring together academics, policy-makers, politicans and journalists to examine the meanings and limits of the word ‘progressive’ in modern British politics and in British cultural and intellectual history.
At the 2010 General Election, all three main parties portrayed themselves as the primary progressive party. All three also appealed to the idea of a ‘progressive tradition’ in British politics. This conference will test the basis of that tradition, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It will also seek to establish whether there are any limits to either the use or the appeal of progressivism. Can we all be progressives? Should we even want to be?
The conference is organised by Dr Emily Robinson, with the support of the Centre for British Politics at the University of Nottingham. For further information, please email emily.robinson@nottingham.ac.uk.
