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From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
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References

Week 1
Barnett, A. (2017) The Lure of Greatness: England’s Brexit and America’s Trump, London, Unbound.
Clarke, H. D., Goodwin, M. and Whitley, P. (2017) Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Jennings, W. and Stoker, G. (2016) ‘The bifurcation of politics: two Englands’, The Political Quarterly, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 372–382.
The Electoral Commission (2017) EU Referendum Results [Online]. Available at https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/elections-and-referendums/past-elections-and-referendums/eu-referendum/electorate-and-count-information (Accessed 16 October, 2017).
Heffernan, R., Weseman, A. and Mahendran, K. (2017) What does Brexit tell us about Britain [Lecture part of the OpenMinds: Talks from the Open University, Milton Keynes, 28 March]. Available at http://www.open.edu/openlearn/tv-radio-events/events/openminds-talk-what-does-brexit-tell-us-about-britain?in_menu=507569 (Accessed 14 October, 2017).
Week 2
Barnett, A. (2017) The Lure of Greatness: England’s Brexit and America’s Trump, London, Unbound.
Coyle, D. (2015) 'Why devolution is good for the economy' Manchester Policy Blogs, 2 March [Blog]. Available at http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/featured/2015/03/why-devolution-is-good-for-the-economy/ (Accessed 10 November 2017).
Massey, D. (1995) Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production, 2nd edn, Basingstoke, Macmillan.
Massey, D. (2007) World City, Cambridge, Polity.
Massey, D. (2009) Space, Place and Politics: Track 6, Doreen’s Response to the Panel [Download]. Available at http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/geography/doreen-massey-space-place-and-politics
Milton Keynes Council (2014) Milton Keynes Theme Report – 2011 Census Population and Migration. Milton Keynes, UK: Research and Intelligence, Milton Keynes Council, April 2014.
Williams, M. (2016) Fast Growth Cities: The Opportunities and Challenges ahead, London: Centre for Cities. http://www.centreforcities.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Fast-Growth-Cities.pdf (Accessed 6 December 2017).
Week 3
Amin, A., Massey, D. and Thrift, N. (2003) Decentering the Nation: A Radical Approach to Regional Inequality, London, Catalyst.
Barnett, A. (2017) The Lure of Greatness: England’s Brexit and America’s Trump, London, Unbound.
Gordon, I., Travers, T. and Whitehead, C. (2003) London’s Place in the UK Economy 2003, London, Corporation of London.
Gordon, I. (2016) ‘Quantitative easing of an international financial centre: how London came so well out of the post-2007 crisis’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 335–353.
Hall, S. (2006) ‘Cosmopolitan promises, multicultural realities’, in Scholar, R. (ed) Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 20–51.
Hall, P., Imrie, R., Lees, L. and Raco, M. (2009) ‘Planning London: a conversation with Peter Hall’, in Imrie, R., Lees L. and Raco, M. (eds.) Regenerating London: Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City, Abingdon, Routledge.
Judah, B. (2016) This is London. Life and Death in the World City. London, Picador.
Lammy, D. (2017) ‘London must look to be a city-state if hard Brexit goes ahead’ Evening Standard, 20 March [Online]. Available at https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/david-lammy-london-must-look-to-be-a-citystate-if-hard-brexit-goes-ahead-a3494221.html (Accessed 17 July 2017).
London Finance Commission (2017) Devolution: A Capital Idea, London, London Finance Commission [Online]. Available at https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/devolution_-_a_capital_idea_lfc_2017.pdf (Accessed 12 October2017).
Massey, D. (2007) World City, Cambridge, Polity.
McCann, P. (2016) The UK Regional-National Economic Problem: Geography, Globalisation and Governance, Abingdon, Routledge.
Week 4
Curtice, J. (2017) ‘Scottish public opinion and Brexit: not so clear after all?’ in Hassan, G. and Gunson, R. (eds.) Scotland, the UK and Brexit. A Guide to the Future, Edinburgh, Luath Press.
Gormley-Heenan, C. and Aughey, A. (2017) ‘Northern Ireland and Brexit: Three effects on ‘the border in the mind’’, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol.19, no. 3, pp. 497–511 [Online]. Available at http://journals.sagepub.com/ doi/ pdf/ 10.1177/ 1369148117711060 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] (Accessed 20 October 2017).
Nairn, T. (2000) ‘Ukania under Blair’, New Left Review, vol. 1, pp. 69–103.
Nairn, T. (1975) ‘The Modern Janus’, New Left Review, vol. 1, no. 94, pp. 3–29.
O'Leary, B. (2016) 'The Dalriada document: towards a multinational compromise that respects diversity in the United Kingdom', The Political Quarterly, vol. 87, no. 4, pp. 518–33 [Online]. Available online http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ doi/ 10.1111/ 1467-923X.12312/ epdf (Accessed 20 October 2017).
O’Sullivan, P. (2017) Brexit and the Irish Border [Online]. Available at http://learn4.open.ac.uk/ mod/ oucontent/ view.php?id=12293 (Accessed 18 September 2017).
O’Toole, F. (2017) ‘Brexit’s Irish Question’, The New York Review of Books, 28 September [Online]. Available at http://www.nybooks.com/ articles/ 2017/ 09/ 28/ brexits-irish-question/ (Accessed 8 October 2017).
Pattie, C. and Johnston, R. (2017) ‘Scottish national identity: why the question of Europe could actually keep the UK together’ LSE British Politics and Policy, 20 March [Blog]. Available at http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/ politicsandpolicy/ could-europe-prevent-the-break-up-of-britain/ (Accessed 18 September 2017).
Wyn Jones, R. (2016) ‘Why did Wales shoot itself in the foot in this referendum?’ Guardian, 27 June [Online]. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/ commentisfree/ 2016/ jun/ 27/ wales-referendum-remain-leave-vote-uk-eu-membership (Accessed 17 October 2017).