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
Click here for the website of the late John Pilger .which contains a collection of his films and articles and information about his books
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