Schedule

Schedule

Autumn Term

Introduction

Week 2: Representing the Seventies

Frameworks (weeks 3-5)

Week 3: A Permissive Society?

Week 4: A Nation in Decline?

Week 5: Social Democracy, Neoliberalism and the Road to 1979

Week 6: Reading Week

Case Studies (weeks 7-15)

Week 7: Stand Up and be Counted: Popular Culture and the Idea of National Crisis

Week 8: From New Society to No Society

Week 9: On Campus: Students, Universities and the New Society

Week 10: In Two Minds: Madness, Gender, and the Politics of the Personal

Spring Term

Week 11: Health Workers, the NHS, and Industrial Relations

Week 12: The Little Red Schoolbook: Childhood, Sex, and Social Revolution

Week 13: Race and Culture

Week 14: Mass Observing the 70s

Week 15: Popular Music and the 1970s

Week 16: Reading Week

Synthesis (weeks 17-20)

Week 17: Emotional Life

Week 18: Living Space

Week 19: Economic Life

Week 20: Technological and Environmental History

Summer Term

Week 21: Essay Workshop