Timetable
The module timetable can be found below:
All lecture slides / recordings, seminar questions, and reading lists, are available on the Moodle pageLink opens in a new window
| Week | Lecture and Seminar Topic |
| 1 | **NO LECTURE OR SEMINAR - ALL 30 CATS OPTION MODULES BEGIN IN WEEK 2** |
| 2 | Introduction: The Problem with Britain |
| 3 | An Imperial People? |
| 4 | 'National Decline', Reproduction and the State in Edwardian Britain |
| 5 | The Great War, Masculinity, and the Nation |
| 6 | Reading week (no lecture or seminar) |
| 7 | Mass Culture and Popular Pastimes in Interwar Britain *This week's seminar will take place in the Modern Records CentreLink opens in a new window* |
| 8 | Politics, Feminism, and the Working Class in Interwar Society |
| 9 | Race and Empire in ‘The People’s War’ |
| 10 | The Welfare State: Revolutionary or Reactionary? |
|
Christmas Vacation
|
|
| 11 | The Postwar Affluent Society: Gender, Class, and Consumerism |
| 12 | Losing Religion: Belief in the Secular Sixties |
| 13 | A Permissive Society? Sexuality in Modern Britain |
| 14 | Manufacturing Decline: The ‘Crisis’ of the 1970s |
| 15 | Decolonisation and Immigration: 'Whitewashing Britain'? |
| 16 | Reading week (no lecture or seminar) |
| 17 | Race and Racism in Multi-Cultural Britain |
| 18 | Assignments Workshop |
| 19 | Devolution: The Break-Up of Britain? |
| 20 | The Long Road to Brexit: Britain and Europe |
|
Easter Vacation
|
|
| 21 | Life in Thatcher's Britain |
| 22 | Whose Britain? Heritage, Memory and Belonging |
