5HUM0325 Peace, Power and Prosperity: Britain, 1789-1914
Fridays,
lecture:2pm, R118
seminars:3pm M135, OR 4pm R118
Workshop schedule - Click here for what you need to do in preparation each week
1 - 23 Jan - the long nineteenth century: an overview
2 - 30 Jan - The Victorian City and the rural idyll
3 - 6 Feb - Social reform and charity
4 - 13 Feb - online seminar (Cumberland Lodge weekend) - working lives and trade unions
5 - 20 Feb - Empire
6 - 27 Feb - The ‘Celtic Fringe’?
7 - 6 March - READING WEEK - please use to plan and read for your essays
8 - 13 March - The Victorian family
9 - 20 March - Religion, Science and Doubt
10 - 27 March - Victorian leisure
11 - 3 April - NO SEMINAR - GOOD FRIDAY - please use to revise for the examination
12 - 24 April - Reforming politics and welfare
13 - 1 May - exam preparation
The online 'textbooks' for this module are:
- Edward Royle, Modern Britain, a Social History, 1750-2011 ( 3rd ed. 2011, available as an e-book via Voyager/studynet)
- Understanding the Victorians: Politics, Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Susie L. Steinbach (Routledge, 2012, also available as an ebook)
Timeline of important events - go to 'timeline' page
assessment
1. essay (2500 words, 50% total mark), due Thursday 26 March, 4pm. Please go to studynet page > assignments for the full details on how to submit online. Click here for the reading lists.
2. exam (2 hours, 50 % total mark).
2. exam (2 hours, 50 % total mark).
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