Useful links
We also have a page of A to Z links (this page in alphabetical order).
The Internet is a great source of up-to-date information for students and Politics & International Relations teachers, with many political bodies having their own websites. Addresses are constantly changing, so if any of the individual links below don't work, try using the Yahoo search engine. If you find a broken link, or wish to suggest a link to add to this page, please e-mail us.
University of Southampton Library
University of Southampton-led project - "Teaching Citizenship in Higher Education"
Free learning activities and resources for politics lecturers and teachers are available for download as part of this HEFCE-funded project (formerly known as POLIS)
Yahoo UK Listings
UK Parties
- Conservative Party
- Green Party
- Labour Party
- Liberal Democrats
- Respect Coalition
- UK Independence Party
- British National Party
- Plaid Cymru
- Scottish Nationalist Party
- Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Democratic Unionists Party
- Sinn Fein
- Social Democratic & Labour Party
- Ulster Unionist Party
Europe
- EuroInternet - information resources related to European Integration in the Internet
- Europa - the European Union on-line
- European Parliament
Journals
- New Internationalist - Magazine that exists to report on issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary if the basic material and spiritual needs of all are to be met.
- Private Eye
- The New Statesman
General
- BOPCAS (British Official Publications Current Awareness Service)
- BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service)
- C-SAP - National Centre for Learning and Teaching for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics. The Centre is one of the 24 subject Centres within the Learning and Teaching Support Network and is based at The University of Birmingham.
- DirectGov
- HM Treasury
- Home Office Research & Statistics
- Internet Politician - RDN Virtual Training Suite site with lots of useful ideas and links
- United Kingdom Parliament
- Scottish Parliament
- The National Assembly for Wales
- The Northern Ireland Assembly
- Charter 88 - UK Constitutional reform movement
- The Democracy Movement - campaigns against Britain's participation in European economic and monetary union
- Amnesty International
- Human Rights Web
- Friends of the Earth
- Greenpeace International
- World Development Movement
- Machiavelli Online
- US Senate
- US Congress
- United Nations Association of the UK
News feeds