Timetable
Lectures: Mondays, 10:00-11:00, Room Hum 5.45
| Week |
Lecture |
Seminar |
| Term 1: Identity, political culture and revolutions |
Introduction: the module's themes
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| Week 2 |
The seventeenth century legacy and the uses of the past Download Click the play button above for a short podcast summarising the lecture or the download link for the mp3 file. |
Practicalities and a discussion of Britishness/identity
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| Week 3 |
Religious identity: anti-Catholicism, the Church of England and dissent Download |
No seminar |
| Week 4 |
Political identity and popular protest: Whigs, Jacobitism, Excise Crisis. Powerpoint Download |
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| Week 5 |
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| Week 6 |
Reading Week | |
| Week 7 |
Print Culture Download
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News and newspapers in the Burney collection
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| Week 8 |
War and State Formation Download |
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| Week 9 |
Imperial identities: the 'first British Empire' Download |
Imperial dilemmas and the American Revolution
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| Week 10 |
The 'second British Empire' Download
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Film Discussion: The Patriot (2000) Film Viewing: 3 December (Friday) in Hum 4.02 at 1900 |
| Term 2: Week 1 |
Radicalism and the French Revolution Download |
Popular politics |
| Week 2 |
The Electoral System Download |
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| Week 3 |
The Domestic Impact of the Napoleonic Wars Download
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Discussion of long essays
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| Week 4 |
Consumerism, luxury goods and colonial commodities Download |
India and the East India Company |
| Week 5 |
Slavery and Anti-Slavery Download
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| Week 6 |
Reading Week |
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| Week 7 |
Enlightenment and Scientific Culture Download
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The Enlightenment in Scotland and America
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| Week 8 |
Cultures of Collecting |
Trip to the Enlightenment Galleries at the British Museum (March 4th) |
| Week 9 |
Gender Download |
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| Week 10 |
Patrician and Plebeian Download |
Film Discussion: The Duchess (2008) Film Viewing: 11 March (Friday) Room H2.03 at 1900
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| Term 3: Week 1 |
Crime and punishment PLEASE NOTE: ON ACCOUNT OF THE BANK HOLIDAY THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY 3 MAY AT 9.00 IN H1.48 SEMINAR GROUP A (NEUFELD) WILL TAKE PLACE AT 10.00 IN H4. 01
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| Week 2 |
Towns |
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| Week 3 | Class: patricians and plebians; see Term Two, Week 10 for Powerpoint and Podcast | Revision seminars |
Seminar times:
Group A: Mondays, 1200 to 1300, Room Hum. 3.46
Group B: Tuesdays, 1300 to 1400, Room Hum. 3.46
Dr Neufeld's Office Hours: Mondays, 1500 to 1630, Room Hum. 3.10
Mr McEvoy's Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1000 to 1200, Room Hum. 3.20