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Whatever you think about the pressures being placed on our current democracies, BRLSI’s Democracy Under Threat series invites you to pause and take stock as we collectively take the long view across the wealth of history and political thinking which underpins our long held democratic systems and institutions, both in the Uk and abroad. Our great new series takes us from the laying down of democratic principle in ancient Athens to the ongoing pressures on our contemporary democracies.
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Let a great assembly be: Shelley’s poem addressed to an imagined democratic public. How can people without political power make themselves heard?
How the American Revolutionary War threatened cross-Atlantic family ties
We understand the consequences of global warming, so why are we not changing? Professor Manfred Lenzen explores.
