Schedule

Autumn Term

Week 2: Introduction: What is a cultural history of the NHS and why do we need it?

Week 3: The Citadel: The novel that inspired the NHS?

Week 4: Did the people want the NHS: Mass Observation and Popular Opinion

Week 5: The Appointed Day: What do we learn from the arrival of the service?

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7: National Babies and National Bodies: Learning and Embodying the NHS?

Week 8: Love in the NHS: Pulp Fiction and Soap Opera

Week 9: Interpreting the Comedy of the NHS

Week 10: Art, Design and the Built Environment: the Cathedrals and Material Culture of the early NHS

Spring Term

Week 11: NHS Staff, Emotional Labour, and the Cultural History of Service

Week 12: Popular Sentiment and Experience: The Mass Observation Project Evidence

Week 13: A Sacred Cow? The Politics of NHS Support

Week 14: Branding the NHS

Week 15: Anniversary Fever, Covid-19, and the History of NHS Futures

Week 16: Reading Week

Week 17: The Closest thing to a Religion?

Week 18: Towards a History of Bigness

Week 19: The Museum of the NHS

Week 20: Recasting the History of the NHS and End of Year Quiz

Summer Term

Week 21: Essay Workshop