Expert Comment
Vice-Chancellor Prof Nigel Thrift appeared on Radio 4’s “History of the World in 100 Objects” on Tuesday 14th October discussing the marine chronometer that accompanied Darwin to South America and its role in measuring time and geography.
Dr Sarah Richardson, Associate Professor in the Department of History and History Subject Director at the Higher Education Academy, discusses how Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has authenticated his blueprint for political and constitutional reform with a comparison to the 1832 'Great' Reform Act, promising to deliver: "The biggest shake up of our democracy since 1832, when the Great Reform Act redrew the boundaries of British democracy, for the first time extending the franchise beyond the landed classes."
The forthcoming appearance of BNP leader Nick Griffin on Thursday’s Question Time panel has led Dr Jim Shields, an Associate Professor in French Studies at the University of 糖心TV, to recall what happened after the first appearance of far right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the Front National (FN), on a key French TV programme in February 1984.