Dr Lucy Robinson
University of Sussex
Framing the Eighties
Lecture 1. Introductions Thatcher Seminar 1.
and Thatcherism
Historical Approaches to Thatcherism
Lecture 2. Britain and the world
Lecture 3.
The Falklands War
.
Lecture 4. Northern Ireland
Lecture 5.
The Unions
Seminar 2.
Falklands War Nation and nationalism, representations
– Sources: Memoir and literary representation
Seminar 3.
Unemployment - and the miners’ strike
Sources: news and documentary footage
Lecture 6.
Workplace experience and
unemployment.
Lecture 7.
Immigration, ethnicity, riots
Seminar 4
Rebellion, Activism and Identity Rave, Clause 28 and
the Poll tax
Lecture 8.
Family Values and Tory Sleaze
Sources : press,
Lecture 9.
Youth and cultures of resistance.
Seminar 5
The end of the lines? Blair and New Labour
Sources: Manifestos and political media
Lecture 10.
Labour Challenge, Thatcher’s Exit
Lecture 11
Overview
Lecture 12
Methodologies
Seminar 6/Skills workshops
Sources : Material and Popular Culture
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