Empowering political learning and critical thinking.

Directly linked to the A Level specification needs for both AQA and Edexcel, these three-hour interactive seminars go in-depth on a General Election case study of your choice from 1979 to 2024. 

Directly linked to the A Level specification needs for both AQA and Edexcel, these three-hour interactive seminars go in-depth on a US presidential election case study of your choice from 1992 to 2024. 

October 7 2023, was the deadliest attack on Israel in modern times and has led to a war in Gaza that has been labelled as 'genocide' by the UN. This seminar addresses the key questions in a balanced and informed manner, situating October 7 and the subsequent conflict in Gaza within a broader historical and political context.

Immigration has become a defining and polarising political issue in democracies across the Western world. Small boats, asylum hotels, detention centres and the rise of populist parties promising deportations have made this a charged issue in schools. This seminar presents the debates around immigration neutrally and expertly, placing them in context.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is the latest incident in a normalisation of polarised violence in the USA. Kirk was a radical and transformative figure on the right of US politics, and his life and work have been pivotal to the current political landscape. His death and its subsequent fallout tell us much about current US politics. This seminar explores these themes.

Exploring the themes that tie together over a thousand years of political history and have helped shape the country's political and social fabric today. This two-hour thought provoking session enables students to have a hollistic view of UK political history.

Margaret Thatcher was a trailblazing and transformative Prime Minister who set about a radical remaking of the British economy, state and foreign policy in the 1980s. However, her legacy did not end there. It has lived on in politics and policy ever since. This workshop explores that legacy and evaluates the extent to which we have all now become "children of Thatcher".

The "Leave" win in the 2016 EU Referendum shocked the world; however, should it have been such a surprise? The signs were all there that this was entirely possible (and even, probable). This two-hour interactive seminar delves into the long and short-term factors which triggered the UK's departure from the European Union and the consequences of it.

As political data continues to show a correlation between age and voting behaviour, this two-hour interactive seminar explores the motivations behind different age groups within the electorate and why these have increasingly come to clash in recent UK and US elections. 

Ever since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the West has retreated from its neoconservative and global policeman positions. Why is this? Why has the West enabled new powers to fill the void in areas of traditional involvement? What is the future without the West's involvement? This two-hour interactive seminar on global politics explores the issues.

What shapes 'national culture' and 'cultural identity'? Why and how is nationalism becoming a prevalent in an age dominated by globalisation? Can multiculturalism and pluralistic society truly work? These are just some of the questions addressed in this two-hour interactive seminar.

What if Hitler had won World War Two? What if the United States had never been formed? What if Gore had won in 2000? Global political history is full of turning points. This two-hour interactive seminar explores some of the crossroads of political history and how things might (just might!) have turned out differently.