This lecture explores Macmillan’s premiership, contrasting his reassuring public image with his ruthless political tactics, and assessing how this combination secured electoral success before scandals ultimately brought his time in power to an end.
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This series examines successful Prime Ministers who secured re-election after serving at least one term in office. It explores how they gained and maintained power, focusing on political ideology, campaign strategies and leadership.
This lecture explores Wilson’s electoral dominance, policy record, and leadership style, weighing social reform and economic challenges against his success as a campaigner and his decision to keep Britain out of the Vietnam War.
Cyberattacks, sabotage, disinformation, and proxy forces are reshaping conflict below the threshold of war. This six-part lecture series explores the history, tools, and strategic logic of grey-zone warfare – and how democracies can deter and respond.
This lecture explores Thatcher’s electoral success, economic transformation, and confrontations with organised labour, highlighting how her leadership secured repeated victories before divisions over Europe led to her removal.
Crimea has always been too tempting a trophy to resist. It carries the scars of successive civilisations that have claimed, shaped, and reshaped it. To this day, it remains a prize fought over by competing peoples and ideologies.
This lecture series will evaluate the most controversial decisions in international relations since the end of the Cold War. It focuses on the balance of decision making between diplomacy and military conflict.
This lecture will reassess Bush’s path to the Gulf War, from early hesitation and pressure for diplomacy to a hardened stance shaped by domestic and strategic factors, culminating in Desert Storm and the liberation of Kuwait.
This lecture explores Major’s 1992 election victory and political skill, set against the impact of Black Wednesday and deep party divisions over Europe, which ultimately led to his government’s defeat in 1997.
From the early hackers of the 1950s all the way to 1990s cypherpunks, 2000s hacktivists and the diverse community of hackers today, this online lecture explores the genesis of hackers, their methods and their motivations.
This programme comprises our full 18-lecture series on National Security & Cyber covering AI and cyber security, Surveillance, Hacking, Cybercrime, Cyber Terrorism, Cyber Espionage and Cyber Warfare.
Explore the origins of hacking, dissect the cyber kill-chain, and navigate the evolving threat landscape. From AI-powered cyberattacks to encryption battles in the Crypto Wars, this series unveils the complex world of digital adversaries and defenders.