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I was recently told that the publicly funded (through JISC) Film & Sound Online has some useful resources for studying the miner’s strike of 1984-5. You may need your Athens logon and password to gain access, depnding upon whether you are on the UoB campus network.
Items of interest are two productions by Amber Films ‘Where […]
Written by Roger on April 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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A new volume which looks promising (I’m due to review it for Twentieth Century British History and will let you know once I’ve read it):
Turner, R.S. (2008) Neo-liberal ideology: history, concepts and policies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Also, for various seminars:
Arestis, P. (2007) Is there a new consensus in macroeconomics? London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Eichenberg, R.C. (1989) Public […]
Written by Roger on March 7th, 2008 with no comments.
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Across my desk this past couple of weeks (also of some relevance to TL):
The latest issue of the British Journal of Political Science, 38.2 (2008) has four papers of interest:
Jacobs, A.M. (2008) ‘The politics of when: redistribution, investment and policy making for the long term’, British Journal of Political Science, 38 (2), pp. 193-220.
Denny, K. […]
Written by Roger on February 14th, 2008 with no comments.
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A political economy and comparative approach to understanding both economic and social policy reform in Britain since the 1970s:
Kus, B. (2006) ‘Neoliberalism, institutional change and the welfare state: the case of Britain and France’, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 47 (6), pp. 488-525.
see also:
Fourcade-Gourinchas, M. and Babb, S.L. (2002) ‘The rebirth of the liberal creed: […]
Written by Roger on August 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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Happened to pick up the 1984 issue of the Political Quarterly and there are a number of papers of interest:
On the Falklands, a useful post-general election perspective:
Christie, C. (1984) ‘The British left and the Falklands war’, Political Quarterly, 55 (3), pp. 288-307.
In the same issue, an early discussion of the appeal of social market ideas […]
Written by Roger on May 24th, 2007 with no comments.
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On whether the British people/electorate became Thatcherite in the 1980s I don’t know how I have avoided for so long knowing of:
Rentoul, J. and Ratford, J. (1989) Me and mine: the triumph of the new individualism?. London: HarperCollins. HN385.5 REN
Thanks to one of your number for bringing it to my attention in their project.
Written by Roger on May 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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The latest issue of the journal British Politics, which alas we do not have in UBL (rather embarrassing when I’m on the editorial board), has a number of papers of interest if you can get hold of a copy, in particular on ten year’s of Blair’s premiership and the prospects for New Labour. Andrew Taylor’s […]
Written by Roger on March 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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The latest issue of the journal British Politics, which alas we do not have in UBL (rather embarrassing when I’m on the editorial board), has a number of papers of interest if you can get hold of a copy. I have printed off (and placed in RM) the most immediately relevant:
Tomlinson, J. (2007) ‘Mrs Thatcher’s […]
Written by Roger on March 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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News just received from the library, they have just obtained a copy of:
Politicos Media (1998). Party political broadcasts: the greatest hits. - Video
I suggest you get a group together and have a session to watch and discuss this.
I have also placed a copy of my recent paper on benchmarking the Thatcher years (as Middleton 2007) […]
Written by Roger on March 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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The latest issue of Political Studies Review, vol. 5.1 (January 2007) has a review symposium on Freedman’s recent official history of the Falklands-Malvinas War:
Rogers, P. (2007) ‘A necessary war?’, Political Studies Review, 5 (1), pp. 25-31.
Palermo, V. (2007) ‘The dialogue between history and political culture: the political reception of the work of Sir Lawrence […]
Written by Roger on January 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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