Government & Politics
The politics of the UK, USA and the rest of the world.
Government & Politics
The Labour Party, 1945-Present
In this course, Professor John Callaghan (University of Salford) explores the history of the Labour Party from 1945 to the present day. In the first module, we think about the Labour government under Clement Attlee between 1945-51. In the second, we ...
Prof. John Callaghan
Salford University
Government & Politics
Politics in Northern Ireland, 1921-Present
In this course, Dr Catherine McGlynn (University of Huddersfield) explores the politics of Northern Ireland, from the opening of the first Northern Irish Parliament in 1921 to the present day. We begin in the first module by tracing the history of conflict ...
Dr Catherine McGlynn
Huddersfield University
Government & Politics
The Presidency of Barack Obama, 2009-2017
In this course, Dr Clodagh Harrington (De Montfort University) examines the presidency of Barack Obama. We begin in the first module with Obama’s strategy and performance in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries and then the ...
Dr Clodagh Harrington
De Montfort University
Government & Politics
Ecologism
In this course, Professor Matthew Humphrey (University of Nottingham) thinks about ecologism as a political ideology by surveying five key thinkers to illustrate both the diversity of ecological thought, and its core unifying themes. We begin in the first ...
Prof. Matthew Humphrey
Nottingham University
Government & Politics
Politics and the Media
In this course, Dr Richard Heffernan (Open University) thinks about the relationship of the modern media to British politics. We begin in the first module by thinking about the indispensability of the media in all its forms to the enactment of modern politics ...
Dr Richard Heffernan
Open University
Government & Politics
Socialism
In this course, Professor Jeremy Jennings (King’s College London) thinks about the history of socialism from its origins to the present day. We begin in the first module with the French Revolution which set the European precedent for political revolution ...
Prof. Jeremy Jennings
King's College, London