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.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
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.
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 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.
What was life like in Britain between 1914-1918? How dramatic were the changes within society as the country faced up to the needs of total war? We will explore the way war had an unprecedented effect on the lives of Britons during these crucial years.
This course examines the rise and fall of the British Empire and its manifold legacies in Britain and beyond.
Using a variety of examples drawn from global history, this course explores controversies in the history of medicine and the way in which they have impacted on practitioners, patients and wider communities.
The Second World War’s origins lay in the economic and political instability which dominated the years after 1919. During this short online course, explore and analyse how such a terrible conflict could have started.
The recent discovery of Richard III's remains in Leicester highlights the dynamic new research being conducted into the period known as the Wars of the Roses. This course asks students to engage with the latest work on this exciting and tumultuous period.
Augustine, the famous 5th-century North African bishop: profound philosopher, brilliant writer and preacher, fierce debater. Together we will read a wide selection of his works, including some transcripts of his sermons, to let him speak for himself.
Revolution was a powerful dynamic in European politics and society from 1789 to 1848. This course will examine this tremendous era of change.