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’ 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 Sources : press, Lecture 8. Family Values and Tory Sleaze 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 Seminar 6/Skills workshops Sources : Material and Popular Culture Lecture 12 Methodologies.

The Raw and the Cooked

Narrative, chronology, event

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Autumn 1986

Spring 1990

1986 Autumn Events A883 M

1986 Autumn Events B1426 M

Spring 1990: Retrospective on the 1980s A883 MR1821 F

Autumn 1986 Spring 1990