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.
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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.
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 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.
Unveil the dark web’s role in cybercrime, from stolen data markets to ransomware. Explore how extremists exploit cyberspace for recruitment, intelligence, and sabotage. Investigate modern slavery’s digital ties to lethal cyber terrorism.
This event examines core ethical challenges in mental health theory and practice through an intersectional lens, exploring how gender, race, class, and sexuality shape experiences of mental distress, access to care, and mental health systems.
Explore the idea of how to develop a healthy mind from a psychological perspective in this seminar-style day event. We will examine different concepts of a healthy personality offered by many psychological approaches.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will discuss key drawings by Leonardo and Michelangelo individually and comparatively. Focusing on style and techniques, we will also consider relationships with their paintings, sculptures and writings.
A wide-ranging introduction to geology, including plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes and mountains; rocks, minerals and fossils; and the geological history of Britain. The event includes hands-on study of geological specimens in the teaching room.
This lecture will will explore the pioneering artists of the 1920s and '30s French Riviera.
This lecture will will explore the art deco Exposition that took place in Paris in 1925.
This lecture will will explore how Modernism came to dominate painting, sculpture, and architecture, and its pioneering artists..