Tom Chidwick

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Tom is the Manager of the Mile End Institute and oversees all aspects of the Institute's work. He is responsible for planning and delivering the Institute's events programme, and identifying new partnerships and research projects, as well as the Institute's communications. He represents the Mile End Institute at internal and external meetings, public events and academic conferences. 

In addition to his duties at the Mile End Institute, Tom continues to pursue his own research on Britain's contemporary political history. He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Co-Director of the Edward Heath Academic Forum, a new network to encourage the study of Sir Edward Heath's career, 'One Nation' Conservatism and the politics of the 1970s more generally. Until its closure in December 2023, he was a regular columnist for Scottish Review and contributed to the Tides of History project.

He is currently writing a book on 1 March 1979 referendum on the creation of a Scottish Assembly, entitled Now or Never! which will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in late 2025. He has contributed a chapter on the Scottish Convention of Women and the United Nations' Year of Women to a new edited collection (Women, Power and Politics in Britain, 1945 to 1997) which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2025. 

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