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No classes. No lectures will be held this week and no preparation will be required. Please familiarise yourself with the assessment pages and consider delving into some of the background reading.

Please prepare for the seminar in Week 2 by looking at the instructions for your group on the module moodle pageLink opens in a new window

A New British History: An Introduction

Preliminary session: A New British History?

A Game of Thrones: Elizabeth, Mary and the Politics of Religion in the British Isles, 1558-1603

Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart the politics of religion in the British Isles

James VI and I and His Three Kingdoms, 1567-1625

‘A Perfect Union’?: James VI and I and His Three Kingdoms

British Overseas Expansion: The Gaelic World, 1558-1625

Maps of Ireland and Scotland Link opens in a new window

Gaelic Scotland and Ireland under Tudor and Stuart Rule

 Reading Week - no lecture or seminar

I will not hold my in-person office hours during this week, but would be able to organise a 'virtual' meeting

The European Reformations and British National Identities

Religion and the Three British Kingdoms

Wales and the Making of the British Nation, 1475-1640

'The Perfect Union'? Wales and the Making of the British Nation

British Overseas Expansion: The Creation of British America, c. 1575-1640

The Creation of British America

Charles I and the road to Civil War, 1625-1642

Charles I and the Road to Civil War

Christmas vacation

The Experiences of War in British Localities and Empire

The Civil War conflicts: local and imperial perspectives

Radicalism and Regicide: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1642-1649

Radicalism, Rebellion, Revolution and Regicide

One Nation, One Republic? 1649-1660

The Three Kingdoms and the Rise and Fall of the British Republic

Charles II and the Tensions of the Restoration Monarchy, 1660-1685

Charles II and the Restoration Monarchy

British Overseas Expansion: The Restoration Monarchy and the Bid for Empire, 1660-1685

The Restoration Monarchy and the bid for empire

Reading week - No classes

I will not hold my in-person office hours during this week, but would be able to organise a 'virtual' meeting

Race and the Tudor and Stuart Empire, 1558-1702

Race and the British Empire

The Dutch Invasion? James II and the 1688 Revolution

Crown, Parliament, and The 'Revolutionary' Settlement

The 'Revolutionary' Settlement

British Overseas Expansion: The Darien Design and the Context of Scottish Imperialism, 1690-1705

The Darien Design and the Context of Scottish imperialism

Easter vacation

Forging the Nation: The Act of Union and the Birth of the British state

The Act of Union and the Birth of the British state

Conclusions: The New British History and the Emergence of a British Nation?

Conclusions: A British Nation?

Revision Lecture - focused on exam 'do's and don'ts'

Revision Seminar (optional)