Teaching
Notes
Liberalism
Liberalism
and the Liberal Democrats
Liberalism Links
Website of the Liberal
Democrat History
Group [ Very useful on Liberal
Ideology and History]
The Coalition 2010-2011: [1]
[BBC]
The Coalition 2010-2011: [2]
[BBC]
The Political Ideology of The
Cameron-Clegg Coalition Government by Kevin Hickson
Very useful
Click here for
The Liberal Democrats: Journey to a Lib-Con Coalition and Where
Next? by Richard Grayson****
Newest and very useful.
The
Guardian on Vince Cable and Capitalism
The
BBC on Divisions within Modern Liberalism
The
BBC on Orange Book Liberalism
Click here for BBC's
Analysis on The Orange Book and the Liberal Democrats
Click here for a critique of the above programme from a well
informed Liberal Democrat supporter
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Tom Paine [from BBC]
Socialism
The Nature of
Socialism [1]
The
Nature of Socialism: Table
Labour
and Ideology
Essay:
Socialism and Common Ownership
Evolutionary and
Revolutionary Socialism
Revision
Exercise: Socialism
Essay:
Socialism: Means and Ends
Social Democracy
and New Labour [Now contains links to
information on "Blue Labour"]
Is Labour a
Post-Socialist Party?
Socialism: Links
Very Nice PowerPoint Presentation
on Socialism and Communism NEWEST
An Overview of Socialism [External
slide show from Slideshare]
Series
of PDF [PPT-style] presentations on British Politics from Keele University.
[Link currently broken but may be reactivated in the
future!]
Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Labour and
Social Democracy [From Guardian]
Essay on Post-War Consensus
What is the Third
Way? [From BBC]
Left, Right and the Third Way [S. Driver and L. Martell]
Labour Party: A PowerPoint Presentation
Link to David Coates' website articles on current British Politics, especially
the politics of the Labour Party
Tony in 2025: Blair as
History [a Lecture by John Rentoul]
BBC Item on Blue Labour
BBC Analysis on
Blue Labour
The Labour Tradition and
the Politics of Paradox [Blue Labour -related detailed articles]
New
Statesman Articles on Blue Labour
New
Statesman Article on Blue Labour in the context of Labour
History
New Statesman Article on
New Labour
Click here for Steve
Richard's Radio 4 Series on the Premiership of Gordon Brown
David
Runciman on Blue Labour [London Review of Books]
NEWEST
The Guardian on The Purple Book NEWEST
The
New Statesman on The Purple Book
NEWEST
Philip Coman {Observer] article on
Labour Party and Capitalism [NEWEST
and v. significant article I think]
Marxism
Marxism: An
Introduction
Marx and
Marxism
Marx and Historical Materialism
Bourgeoisie and Proletariat
Base and Superstructure
Ruling Class
Ideology: An Introduction
Marxism and Revolution
Marx and Contemporary Society
Marxism and Structural Functionalism: Some Basic Comparisons
Marxism Links
Guardian Series on Marxism: Part One
Guardian
Series on Marxism: Part Two
Guardian Series on Marxism: Part Three
Guardian Series on Marxism: Part Four
Guardian Series on Marxism: Part Five
Guardian Series on
Marxism : Part Six
Guardian Series on
Marxism: Part Seven
Guardian Series on
Marxism: Part Eight
Lenin, Stalin and the
USSR from The History Guide
Mao from the BBC
Mao from the Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World
The Age of Dictatorship : Europe 1918-1989 [ Gresham's
College/Past European History Lectures]
NEWEST
Anarchism
Introducing
Anarchism [Chart]
Internet Biographies of Major Anarchists
An Analysis
of Anarchism
Anarchism and
Human Nature
Anarchism and
the State
Essay: Why have
anarchists believed that the State is unnecessary?
Anarchism and
Equality
Core Values
of Anarchism [Chart]
Anarchism and
Liberalism
Anarchism and
Socialism
Varieties of
Anarchism
A Partial Summary
of Key Theoretical Positions within Anarchism
Anarchist
Methods
Anarchism :
Recent Developments and Criticisms
Essay: Is
anarchism closer to liberalism or to socialism?
Essay: Is anarchism
merely an extreme form of free market liberalism?
Anarchism Links
Series of YouTube videos offering a
sympathetic analysis of Anarchism NEWEST
YouTube: Anarchism
101 with Noam Chomsky
NEWEST
Anarchism: From
the Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Anarchism:
For and Against
An Anarchist FAQ from Web
Anarchism Website
Social Anarchism Website
Anarchism and
Liberalism
Anarchism and the Anti-Globalisation Movement by Barbara Epstein [external link]
Radio 4 on Utopianism
Guardian Article on Baader- Meinhof Gang [by Neil Ascherson]
Robert Nozick [External Link]
Guardian on Animal Rights Movement
Peter Marshall on the New Right and Anarcho-Capitalism
Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell [External link with information on
Marx and Bakunin]
Recent Article on Contemporary Anarchism
Conservatism
Main Elements of
Traditional British Conservatism
Revised Version :added September 10th 2011
Conservatism and Equality
Essay: Is
Conservatism a Ruling Class Ideology
Essay:
Conservatism, Individualism and the Community
The New
Right and Thatcherism
Conservatism
1990-2008.....with a few more recent
links
Conservatism Links
The History Guide on Edmund Burke
and the French Revolution
Independent Article
on the Contemporary Relevance of Edmund Burke
The Victorian Web [Includes very
useful materials on 19th Century Conservatism]
Information on the
British Empire
Harold Macmillan
[Lord Stockton]: An Obituary [Published in the Guardian]
Thatcherism and the End of the Post-War Consensus [Article for the BBC by
Professor Dennis Kavanagh]
Sir
Edward Heath: An
Obituary by Professor Dennis Kavanagh [Published in the
Independent]
Detailed article on
John Major
Link to French
Magazine Articles on John Major [Several in English!]
Cameron's Conservatives: 2005-2010: Timeline
[Guardian]
The Guardian on "Compassionate Conservatism"
David Cameron Speaks to the Observer
Link to series
of PDF [PPT -style] presentations on British Politics from Keele University.
[Link currently broken but may be reactivated in
future!]
Link to Parliamentary Brief Online [Useful articles on Cameron's Conservatives]
IPSOS MORI on The Conservatives in early October 2010
Guardian report that severe child poverty likely to increase
The Guardian Coverage of the 2010 Conservative Party Conference
Links to two editions of
Radio Four's "Analysis" on "The Big Society"
here and
here .
Observer report on Government orders for Universities to focus
Humanities research on "Big Society"
The Ideology of New Conservatism by Kevin Hickson
The Political Ideology of The
Cameron-Clegg Coalition Government by Kevin Hickson
NEW and very useful
Click here
and
here for
two Guardian articles critical of David Cameron's ideological
positions
The Conservatives and Social Policy
1945-2010
Review of Philip Blond's "Red
Tory" [from London Review of Books]
Selected articles on Conservatism
and the Conservatives from the New Statesman and the Guardian
The Guardian Coverage of the 2011 Conservative Party Conference
NEW
George Osborne: Future PM? [From the Guardian]
NEW
The State
Essay: Marxist,
Elite and Pluralist Theories
of The State XX
A revised version of this essay will appear soon
Ideology and
The State XX
Fascism
The first five documents are
designed to provided a basic introduction to the analysis of Fascism
The
Study of Fascism XX
Fascism: Introduction
XX
The Nature of
Fascism XX
Nature of Fascism2
XX
Nature of Fascism 3
XX
The following eleven documents are
rather more detailed
Introducing Fascism
Fascism and
Irrationalism
The Origins of Fascist
Ideology: 1
The Origins of Fascist Ideology:
2
Fascism and Elite Theories: Summary
Fascism : Struggle and
Totalitarianism
Germany:
Nationalism, Socialism and Nazism
Fascism 4: Nazism,
Racism and Anti-Semitism
Italy:
Italian Fascism, Nationalism and Socialism
Italian
Fascism and German Nazism
Fascism and
Conservatism
Fascism Links
The following section contains
historical background information from a range of external sites.
History of
Italian Fascism
A PowerPoint on Italian Fascism
History of Italian Fascism and
German Nazism
The
Age of Dictatorship : Europe 1918-1989 [ Gresham's College/Past
European History Lectures] NEWEST
The
Seeds of Evil
History of
Nazism
A View of the Holocaust [BBC]
Hitler Lecture
[I. Kershaw] and Timeline
Hitler and Mussolini
from The History Guide [See Lectures 9 and 10]
A Century of British Fascism [Searchlight Publication]
The BNP [BBC]
The Guardian on Far
Right Politics in the UK
The
Guardian: John Tyndall Obituary
Feminism
Varieties of Feminism
Patriarchy
Feminism: Some
Recent Studies
Feminist Theory and Methodology
Radio 4 on Feminism
Essay: Sex,
Gender and Feminist Analysis
Miscellaneous
Ideology and
Equality XX
Ideology and Equality Chart