Which groups were fighting for the rights of women at the dawn of the 20th Century? Was it due to their efforts that women got the vote in 1918 or was it due to other factors?

This is part of the Power and the People Theme Study. 

Part of the Power and the People Theme Study for Paper 2.

The Chartists weren't the only game in town in the 1800s when it came to reform movements. There were also the Anti-Corn Law League, the anti-slavery Abolitionists and the various social and factory reformers. What tactics did they use and what success did they achieve?

No Geographers were harmed in the making of this podcast. 

Something a little different while we sort out the Pevensey castle episode

This is the first episode of abnother podcast called Faces of Fascism, the rest of which can be found on Podbean and Apple Podcasts. It's a bit more in depth than you need for GCSE but great for A-Level or simply if you are interested in one the dominant political forces of the 20th century. 

How did the Trades Union movement develop after the Tolpuddle Martyrs?

"You don't get me, I'm part of the Union..."

The first in our mini sequence of podcasts on the development of the Trades Union movement and its place in the development of democracy starts small; focused on one small village in Dorset and six men who swear an oath to found a Union to bargain for better pay and conditions...

The Chartists were a huge political movement, able to mobilise a lot of public support; born out of unhappiness with the Great Reform Act, their demands were simple and clearly designed to improve the representation of the working class in Parliament. But the movement collapsed by the 1850s, ending in abject failure.

Or did it...?

What was the problem with elections in the 1800s? How did a meeting at St Peter's Field lead to the Great Reform Act? And how Great was it anyway?

This is background to the Chartist movement which will be covered in the next episode. 

After the Civil Wars, the question of who ruled - Parliament or the King - was settled. The next phase of power shifting to the people would be about who was represented in Parliament. The first skirmish of this fight would be a war across the sea, when colonists declared that there should be no representation without taxation and, in their Declaration of Independence, wrote down some self-evident truths. 

In our final episode of the class of 2018, we talk through with an AQA Lead Examiner how to answer each of the questions on the new paper. 

For the last time, 2018 - good luck in your exams!

Good-BYEEEEE-EEEEEEE. 

England is at war with itself; the King versus Parliament. This confilct gave rise to new radical politics which would inform the rest of British political history. But not only that - hovering in the background is the biggest unanswered question of all - what do you do with the King?

Probably the most important turning point in the development of Power and the People is covered in this episode.