Schedule

Autumn Term

PART I: FRAMING THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE NHS

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

Week 3: Origins and Arrival

Week 4: Successes and Failures from Foundation to the 1970s

Week 5: End Days?

Week 6: Reading Week

PART II: CASE STUDIES

Week 7: Popular Embrace?

Week 8: Representation within Popular Culture and the Arts

Week 9: In Search of Meaning

Week 10: Cathedrals of the Welfare State?

Spring Term

Week 11: Branding the NHS

Week 12: Staff and Emotional Labour

Week 13: Patients and the Public

Week 14: Documents session in Modern Records Centre

Week 15: Anniversary Fever

Week 16: Reading Week

PART III: SYNTHESIS AND NEW DIRECTIONS

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