Russell Haggar
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Topics in this Section
Section 1 - Aspects of Politics: Theory and Practice
Section 1 - Some Key Historical Topics
Section One
Aspects of Politics: Theory and Practice
Link to Series of Video Lectures on Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, ,Burke ,Marx and others [By Dr. Pete Woodcock of Huddersfield University
Podcasts on Culture, Power and Politics [From Professor Jeremy Gilbert's site]
Click here for the BBC Radio 4 archive of Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time" [Culture; History: Philosophy; Religion; Science]
Lecture Course European Civilization 1648= 1945: John Merriman
Michel Foucault: Beyond Good and Evil December 2014
Philosophy Lectures from Professor Rick Roderick [R.I.P] December 2014
The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the C20th [Also from Professor Roderick] December 2014
Albert Camus: The Madness of Sincerity December 2014
Click here and here for two You tube collections of Bryan Magee discussion programmes on Philosophers [Some overlap]
Click here for An Introduction to General Philosophy [from Oxford University]
Click here for a Yale Lecture Course on Political Philosophy
Click here and here for items on Thomas Hobbes [In Our Time and Yale University lecture]
Machiavelli : Documentary 1: Documentary 2 Dramatised Documentary
Thomas Paine {You Tube: Part One; Part Two]
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Radio Serial One: Two; Three
Stephanie Flanders’ three part series for the BBC: Masters of Money: John Maynard Keynes: Friedrich Hayek: Karl Marx
Human: All Too Human: Friedrich Nietzsche ; Martin Heidegger; [3 part video series]
Western Philosophy: The School of Life
Gloria de Piero on Mary Wollstonecraft March 2014
For a two part lecture on Mary Wollstonecraft click here and here
Laurie Taylor: Thinking Allowed on Neoliberalism One; Two
Laurie Taylor : Thinking Allowed on Capitalism with Ha-Joon Chang and David Harvey
Laurie Taylor: Thinking Allowed on Michel Foucault
Laurie Taylor : Thinking Allowed on Walter Benjamin
David Harvey's Animation on Crises of Capitalism
David Harvey in discussion on "Hard Talk"
David Harvey LSE Lecture : The 17 Contradictions of Capitalism September 2020
David Harvey RSA Lecture [Shorter version] :
Marx was Right {IQ2 debate]
Why Marx was Right[ Terry Eagleton discusses his book] March 2014
Click here for a series of audio lectures with slides on Antonio Gramsci presented by Professor Bob Jessop.
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine
The Films and Documentaries of John Pilger [Nearly all of them!!] February 2014
Some Key Historical Topics
Alan Brown's History Videos on You Tube [Information on First and Second World Wars and much more]
Mr Allsop's You Tube History Channel [About 200 hundred videos usually 10-20 minutes!]
The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 [Documentary presented by Tony Robinson]
Various Clips from BBC Series : The Stuarts
William Pitt : The Younger [Lecture by William Hague]
Gladstone and Disraeli: One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six
Terror, Robespierre and the French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte One; Two; Three ; Four
The Fall of the British Empire One: Two: Three
Further Topics
Section 2- The USSR and Russia
Section 2 - The Middle East
Section 2 - China
Section 2 - The History of Ireland
Section 2 - The Cold War [24 part series]
Section 3 - The Mass Media [NEW links added March 2014]
Section 3 - Recent Developments in Feminism
Section 3 - Welfare and Inequality
Section 4 - Annual Political Reviews 2015-2019
Section 4 - Conservatives 1979-2020
Section 4 - Labour: 1979-2020
Section 4 - Liberal Democrats
Section 4 - The Financial Crisis
Section 4- British Government Institutions
Section 5 - USA Presidents from J. F. Kennedy to Barak Obama
Section 5 - The USA In the Vietnam War 1962 -1975
Section 5 - Recent Presidential Elections
Section 5 - The US Supreme Court