The module readings will be available through the University's library, with all of the required readings for weekly seminars being available to access online. Some good preparatory reading/overviews of the period are:

• P. F. Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain, 1900-1990 (London, 1997).
• Paul Addison and Harriet Jones (eds), A Companion to Contemporary Britain, 1939-2000 (Oxford, 2005).
• David Edgerton, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History (London, 2018).
• Kenneth O. Morgan, Twentieth-century Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2000).
• Martin Pugh, State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870 (London, 2017).
• Richard Weight, Patriots: National Identity in Britain, 1940-2000 (London, 2002).
• Paul Ward, Britishness since 1870 (London, 2004).
• Jose Harris, Private Lives, Public Spirit: A Social History of Britain, 1870-1914 (Oxford, 1993).
• Paul Johnson, Twentieth-century Britain: Economic, Social and Cultural Change (London, 1994).
• Pat Thane, Divided Kingdom: A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present (Cambridge, 2018).
• James Vernon, Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present (Cambridge, 2017).
• Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (Harlow, 2001).
• Sheila Rowbotham, A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States (London, 1997).
• Satnam Virdee, Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider (Basingstoke, 2014).

 

For the latest articles on the subject, look at recent issues of journals such as Twentieth Century British History; the Journal of British Studies, and Contemporary British History.

For a comprehensive list of essays, articles and books on any topic in modern British history, search via the electronic Bibliography of British and Irish History (available as electronic database on the Library website).

The library also holds several searchable electronic databases of primary sources that will prove helpful, such as various newspaper archives and all published government reports for the period.

The Modern Records Centre, which is attached to the library, is one of the main archives in the country for the history of twentieth-century Britain. It holds original material that could provide the basis for important original research relating to the module and welcomes student researchers. The MRC catalogue is readily searchable, and contains many things available to access online. The MRC website also has a special page devoted to sources that may be helpful for this module, and you will also find useful material on its pages for other Warwick History modules.