{"id":12,"date":"2018-10-16T13:32:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/?p=12"},"modified":"2018-10-16T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:09:11","slug":"and-another-meritocracy-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/2018\/10\/16\/and-another-meritocracy-event\/","title":{"rendered":"And another meritocracy event&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the really interesting contributions to our Discover Society special issue is the piece by <a href=\"https:\/\/discoversociety.org\/2018\/10\/02\/the-birth-of-meritocracy-michael-young-the-rise-of-the-meritocracy-and-post-war-british-politics\/\">David Civil<\/a> (Nottingham) exploring the history of Young&#8217;s concept in relation to mid-century histories of\u00a0sociology and politics.<\/p>\n<p>David is one of the team organising a <strong>discussion\u00a0in Nottingham next week: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/meritocracy-in-perspective-tickets-48909152592?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\"><em>Meritocracy in Perspective: The Rise of the Meritocracy Sixty Years On<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>. The panel\u00a0features Toby Young, Nick Timothy, Faiza Shaheen and Helen Goulden. Free event; register online.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the really interesting contributions to our Discover Society special issue is the piece by David Civil (Nottingham) exploring the history of Young&#8217;s concept in relation to mid-century histories of\u00a0sociology and politics. David is one of the team organising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/2018\/10\/16\/and-another-meritocracy-event\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/pastsandfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}