Democracy Week: Recommended Resources

November 10, 2022

Books

  • The point is to change the world
  • we want freedom (Black Panthers)
  • Wages for housework
  • a people’s history of Europe
  • Decolonising the university
  • university and social justice struggles across the world
  • V for Vendetta
  • 1984
  • why we always get the wrong politicians
  • hood feminism
  • chasing the scream
  • the transgender issue

TV Series & Documentaries

  • Make Me Prime Minister (Channel 4 / All 4)
  • The West Wing
  • Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister
  • Veep
  • Borgen
  • The Thick of It
  • Knick the House Down

Films

  • Erin Brockovich
  • Made in Dagenham
  • Selma
  • Suffragette
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Pride
  • Hunger
  • Nae Paseran
  • Hamilton
  • V for Vendetta
  • 1984
  • The Iron Lady
  • Don’t Look Up
  • I, Daniel Blake

Podcasts

  • The Yikes Podcast
  • Today in Focus
  • Newscast
  • Americast
  • the Westminster Insider
  • Inside Briefing from the Institute for Government  
  • Tech Tonic
  • The Week Unwrapped