Dr Lucy Robinson

University of Sussex

Framing the Eighties

Lecture 1. Introductions Thatcher and Thatcherism

Seminar 1. Historical Approaches to Thatcherism

Lecture 2. Britain and the world

Lecture 3. The Falklands War

Seminar 2.Falklands War Nation and nationalism, representations – Sources: Memoir and literary representation

Lecture 4. Northern Ireland

Lecture 5. The Unions

Seminar 3.Unemployment - and the miners’ strikeSources: news and documentary footage

Lecture 6. Workplace experience and unemployment.

Lecture 7. Immigration, ethnicity, riots

Seminar 4Rebellion, Activism and Identity Rave, Clause 28 and the Poll tax Sources : press,

Lecture 8. Family Values and Tory Sleaze

Lecture 9. Youth and cultures of resistance.

Seminar 5The end of the lines? Blair and New Labour Sources: Manifestos and political media

Lecture 10. Labour Challenge, Thatcher’s Exit

Lecture 11Overview

Seminar 6/Skills workshops Sources : Material and Popular Culture

Lecture 12Methodologies

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The Raw and the Cooked

Narrative, chronology, event

Infographic

Autumn 1986

Spring 1990

1986 Autumn Events A883 M

1986 Autumn Events B1426 M

Spring 1990: Retrospective on the 1980s

A883 M R1821 F

Autumn 1986 Spring 1990