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The touchstones of Shia Iran are its ancient culture, sensitivity to Anglo-US perfidy and stifling of Iranian democracy, and its hostility to Israel and to Sunni Saudi Arabia. A ruthless but modern monarchy was replaced by a brutal 'Islamic' republic.
The course aims to offer an overview of the diverse artistic, social, and religious and secular cultural life in the Byzantine Empire which contributed to the development of the greatest European medieval empire.
Behind Victorian respectability lay a rougher political world of bribery, riots, public voting, and fierce local rivalries. This 5-week course explores how ordinary people helped shape British democracy before all adults had the vote.
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.
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.
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 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 course examines the institution of human slavery in the southern United States from its colonial beginnings, to its emergence as the most powerful slave system in the world, to its collapse during the Civil War.
