Visit Duncan Hall’s textbook companion site : A2 Government and Politics: Ideologies and Ideologies in Action

Visit the BBC Radio 4 site for their programme entitled “The State of Welfare“. This contains a long Radio programme and several related articles which should be useful both for Ideologies and Ideologies in Action

Visit the Proceedings of a PSA Conference on Conservatism at the University of Hull: Articles and Video Material

Visit a video discussion between Professor David Marquand and Professor Andrew Gamble at the University of Sheffield 

Visit the Open University’s Open Learn Page on “Thinkers” [ Brief items on Marx, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche and more]

Visit the Ashbourne College Government and Politics Site  NEW Link. The site contains very useful A2 Political Ideologies resources…andmore

Visit the Left Futures Website for video materials on the life and times of Tony Benn [R.I.P.]

Useful Links

1. Link to AQA AS and A2 Government  and Politics
2. Link to Edexcel AS and A2 Government and Politics
3. Link to OCR AS and A2 Government and Politics  
4. Link to series of PDF presentations on British Politics from Keele University. [Link currently broken but retained because it may be reactivated in the future!]
5. Link to A 20th Century History course given by Dr. Wallace Mills at St Mary’s University Canada: it provides lots of useful information on political ideologies.
6. Link to David Coates’ website articles on current British Politics, especially the politics of the Labour Party [David Coates is without doubt one of the foremost authorities on the ideology and policies of the Labour Party]
7. Link to Observer archive of Andrew Rawnsley articles.. [Several of these articles chart the most recent ideological developments within British Political Parties]
8. Link to Guardian archive of Polly Toynbee articles [As above]
9. Links to BBC items on “What is Fairness?” and  ” What is Progressive?”
10. Link to videos of Michael Sandel’s thought provoking Harvard University Course on Justice. It contains useful information on J. Locke , J. Bentham, J. S. Mill, R. Nozick and J. Rawls among others
11. Links to two editions of Radio Four’s “Analysis” on “The Big Society” here and here .
12. Link to Channel Four [4OD] documentary based upon “The Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein. It is highly critical of all aspects of Neo- Liberalism.
13. Link to Paper by Kevin Hickson entitled “The Ideology of New Conservatism  
14. Click here and follow the links to three Yale University video lecture courses in Political Philosophy, one in Sociological Theory and one in Modern European History
15. Link to YouTube  video of Jesse Norman lecture [with further discussion] on “The Big Society” at the RSA
16. Link to Guardian Series on Religion and Philosophy entitled How To Believe
17. Link to series of BBC Video lectures on Lloyd George, F .E. Smith,, Nancy Astor , Churchill, Bevan and Powell….with more to follow.
18. Link to Nick Robinson’s Radio Four Talks on The Prime Ministers ….[16 so far with more to follow] …
19. Link to Open Democracy….Very useful articles on political ideas and issues
20. Link to New Statesman
21. Link to “Thinking Allowed” Archive
22. Link to Series of Lectures on Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, ,Burke ,Marx and others   [From Peter Woodcock of Huddersfield University] NEW AND VERY, VERY USEFUL
23. Links to  Oxford University Podcasts and to Politics Inspires
24. Links to British Academy Events in Humanities and Social Sciences
25. Links to History Modules at the University of Warwick