Category: England
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Empire: Pressure, Not Providence
The political economy of European Empire. Pressure and invention rather than character and event. Portugal, Spain, Holland and England.
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Stop Getting Bond Wrong 3
In which we examine how Bond’s actors responded to changing notions of masculinity and the world around them.
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Stop Getting Bond Wrong 1
In which we examine the Bond film franchise through our lens of political and cultural economy.
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PIG IRON: The Great Transformation
In which we explain how Polanyi shows that the regulating mechanisms of capitalism are constructed not inevitable.
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James Graham: Right Up Our Street
The playwright James Graham. Serious political economy content delivered as popular entertainment.
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Why Do You Put Up With This?
In which we explore the contradictions which pervert the spectacle of football
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A History of British Architecture: Tudor and Early Stuart 1540 to 1660
A meander through the history of British Architecture: Tudor and Early Stuart 1540 to 1660
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A History of British Architecture: Dissolution, Civil War, Empire and the Making of British Exceptionalism
A meander through the history of British Architecture. Some thoughts on what informs the ideological framework which explains all the subsequent architectural development.
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A History of British Architecture: Gothic Britain c. 1150 to 1540
A meander through the history of British Architecture by era. Part 5 The Gothic.
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Cymbeline: Shakespeare and the Search for National Identity
A diversion in which we examine Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and its commentary on the conception of British nationhood.
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 