This course analyses why the inter-war years were a period of such political extremism. It will investigate the distinctive features of Soviet Communist ideology and the impact of Lenin and Stalin on the USSR.
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Britain led the world in the nineteenth century, but what were the consequences of industrialisation and empire on British society?
In addition to tracing the evolution of the modern state and political ideas and ideologies, this course focuses on issues that confront people from all parts of the world on a day-to-day basis.
A modern, democratic, multicultural Britain developed throughout the twentieth century. This course will examine the key social, economic and political influences that have shaped modern Britain.
This course is the ideal introduction to English garden history. It provides an overview of five centuries of development, from baroque formalism through the naturalistic landscape style, right up to contemporary cutting-edge planting style.
The reign of Henry VIII transformed British history. This ten-week online course charts the political, religious and cultural changes of the period.
This course aims to give students an introduction and overview of that architectural tradition enabling students to 'read' the architecture of the contemporary built environment in a critically informed way.
Explore the culture of the English country house from its architectural form, social manners and distinctions to the furnishings and artistic manifestations of taste, as an expression of power and influence in a changing society.
What was life like in Oxford during its time as Royalist Capital from 1642-46? Which key players were shaped in Oxford and how did they influence the politics of the day and the outcome of the War? Discover this and more on this walking tour.
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.
Medicine and magic were deeply interconnected ideas in the medieval world. In this course we will explore how these two areas of medieval life interacted with one another and became, at times, inseparable.
200 years of upheaval in the British Monarchy, from the death of Britain's longest-reigning King to that of the world's longest-reigning monarch to succeed as an adult. Tumultuous times met partly with development by evolution, at others by upheaval.