Schedule of Lectures
Autumn Term
1. The Problem with Britain
2. An Imperial People?
3. Bodies, Reproduction and the State in the Edwardian Era
4. The Great War
5. Mass Culture and Popular Pastimes in Interwar Society
6. Reading Week
7. Research and Sources for the Long Essay
8. Politics and Everyday Life in Interwar Society
9. The People’s War?
10. The Welfare State
Spring Term
11. The Affluent Society
12. The Permissive Society
13. Decolonisation and Immigration
14. Race and Racism in Multi-Cultural Britain
15. The Rise and Fall of the Working Class
16. Reading Week
17. Post-Industrial Britain
18. ‘New’ Social Movements After 1989
19. The ‘Break-Up of Britain’: Devolution and Europe
20. Heritage, Nostalgia, and Public Memory
Summer Term
21. Progress or Destruction? The 20th Century in Hindsight (Revision Lecture)
22. ‘Britishness’ and ‘National’ History (Revision Lecture)
Schedule of Seminars, Meetings, and Deadlines
Autumn Term
1. The Problem with Britain
2. An Imperial People?
3. Bodies, Reproduction and the State in the Edwardian Era
4. The Great War
5. Mass Culture and Popular Pastimes in Interwar Society. Submission of 2,000
word essay.
6. Reading Week
7. Visit to Modern Records Centre
8. Politics and Everyday Life in Interwar Society
9. The People’s War?
10. The Welfare State
Spring Term
11. The Affluent Society
12. The Permissive Society
13. Decolonisation and Immigration
14. Race and Racism in Multi-Cultural Britain
15. The Rise and Fall of the Working Class (submission of 2000 word essay).
16. Reading Week
17. Post-Industrial Britain
18. ‘New’ Social Movements After 1989
19. Long essay research workshop
20. Heritage, Nostalgia, and Public Memory
Summer Term
21. Revision seminar
22. Revision seminar, with a focus on answering exam questions.