British politics

Upcoming British politics Lectures

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Tuesday, 22 May 2012 - 6:00pm

The fall of Margaret Thatcher left a legacy that was both contested and divisive. During the 1990s, the Conservative Party, under the imp...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012 - 6:00pm

How can the House of Commons engage more effectively with the public which it serves? Can modern technology assist this enterprise?

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Past British politics Lectures

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Tuesday 24 April 2012

Margaret Thatcher sought to solve the deep-seated problems of the British state outside the parameters of the postwar settlement. The...

Tuesday 13 March 2012

The 1960s saw a new course in British politics – the commitment of both major parties to entry into the European Community, as the...

Tuesday 13 December 2011

The Conservatives recovered remarkably rapidly from the debacle of 1945. Their narrow election victory in 1951 led to 13 years of...

Tuesday 15 November 2011

To the surprise of many, the 1945 general election led to the return of Britain’s first Labour majority government. Labour’s 1945...

Tuesday 11 October 2011

The post war years, by contrast with the first 45 years of the 20th century, were marked by peace and stability. For much of...

Thursday 14 April 2011

Professor Bogdanor analyses the significance of coalition government for Britain and of the momentous constitutional reforms which the...

Tuesday 22 March 2011

After the seeming success of the Munich Conference of 1938 it was...

Tuesday 15 February 2011

The Conservative-dominated ‘National’ Government failed to discover...

Tuesday 18 January 2011

Fears about the fiscal deficit and the possibility of a run on sterling caused MacDonald and Snowdon to take drastic action in the...

Monday 4 October 2010

Political, satirical, comic and incendiary: from Hogarth's images of...

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