British & Irish History
Courses Online & In London

The fourth in a new cycle of modern British history courses, this course examines the transformative social and cultural change in Britain during the Thatcher Decade; probing how far the Thatcher Governments were responsible for social and cultural change. Or was this largely the work of provincial cultural entrepreneurs like Tony Wilson (“Mr Manchester”)?



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This course will explore how air power developed in Britain between 1914 and 1945.







Taught by:



Dr. Powell a Teaching Fellow in Air Power and Strategic Studies at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell as part of the Portsmouth Military Education Team. He holds a PhD in Modern History from the University of Birmingham. His first book The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1940-1943: A History of Army Co-operation Command was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. He has published in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals and is a regular TVP World (Poland) and British Forces TV. His current research investigates the relationship between the Air Ministry and the British aircraft industry in the inter-war period.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Explore the everyday life of men and women during the closing years of the Tudors as revealed in the works of local historians and other contemporary material.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This course offers an exploration of the 1960s in Britain. It addresses some of the myths of the period about the Beatles, the Mod Culture, the media representation of “Swinging” London; and Britain’s “1968”.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.