Democracy

1971 Anglo-Italian Cup Winners – Blackpool Football Club

And they’re off!: What Sports Discourse Can Reveal About Postwar British Democracy

by Jamie Jenkins on March 14, 2022

Whether you are an avid football fan who never misses a game or, like myself you have yet to grasp the offside rule, sport is near impossible to avoid. A form of entertainment and escapism,

Tanzania goes to the polls: A new kind of opposition politics?

by Emma Hunter on October 22, 2015

On 25 October, over 20 million people will go to the polls in Tanzania. And for the first time since

Whose ‘Civic Army’? Ferguson, Policing, and Early American Democracy

by Charlie Thompson on November 26, 2014

The media coverage of the decision to exonerate the policeman who killed an unarmed black teenager has focused on the

How should the USA remember the First World War?

by Sophie Hylands on August 11, 2014

Barack’s Obama’s official visit to Flanders Field American Cemetery in Belgium earlier this year was a suitably sombre occasion, but

25 years after Tiananmen Square: The Long History of Chinese Democracy

by Tehyun Ma on June 4, 2014

Twenty-five years ago today, on the night of 3 June 1989, tanks moved into central Beijing to crush the ‘counter-revolutionary

Abdication to save the monarchy? Juan Carlos I and dreams of a Third Republic

by Matthew Kerry on June 3, 2014

As a historian of Spain's republican past, I watched with fascination as, last night, following news of Juan Carlos I’s abdication, thousands took to the streets in Spain and abroad to demand a referendum on

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