State and Economy - The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life

Date: Thu, 12 February 2026 · 17:00 - 18:00
Cost: Free
Venue: South School, Examination Schools
Address: 75–81 High Street, Oxford, OX1 4BG, United Kingdom
Event page: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/state-and-economy

State and Economy

Building on the idea of the nation as an “imagined community,” Peter Mandler shows how twentieth‑century Britons came to perceive political and economic systems as tangible structures shaping their lives. Social‑scientific language helped make these “invisible structures” newly legible.

What to expect:

  • 🏛️ How economic and political structures became part of everyday understanding
  • 📊 The role of social science in explaining modern governance
  • 🔍 New ways of imagining the state and economy