A look at the three key areas where challenges to the religious settlement came from; the Puritans, noble English Catholics and foreign catholics.

A look at the compromise nature of the religiius settlement and why it was needed, as well as a quick look at the role of the Church.

A look at how we catorgorise UK politicsl parties and what a Party system is and how we could approach an essay defining the type of party system that best describes the UK.

In this episode I look at the events in Eastern Europe in 1988-89 that resulted from Gorbachev's New Thinking and how they would lead to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and freedom and political changes that would effectively end the Cold War in Europe.

A look at Gorbachev and his New Thinking, including rhe impact it had on the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War with America.

A look at the period 1980-85 and the changing leadership in the USSR

Looking at Reagan’s more aggressive stance and the beginning of a more aggressive period in the Cold War after Detente.

A look at the rise of Solidarity in Poland in the ewrly 1980s, consdering its importance for the rest of the Cold War

An episode looking at the wvents around the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Sometimes described as the USSR’s Vietnam, it ended detente and drained the USSR leading to the eventual collapse of Communism in Europe.