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1. Map Exercise

The mid-term will ask you to locate certain cities or regions on a blank map.

1. IDs
You need to able to identify and contextualise (that is to date, place and explain) the following people, events, episodes, phrases, ideas or concepts. The mid-term and final exam will present you with a choice of 10, from which you must choose 4.

Great Exhibition Free Trade J.S.Mill Chartism Irish Famine Ordnance Survey New Poor Law Separate Spheres Contagious Diseases Acts St.Monday Fenianism Helen Taylor Thomas Cook Rational Recreation Music Hall Morant Bay Rebellion Secret Ballot William Gladstone Seebohm Rowntree New Journalism Garden Cities Committee on Physical Deterioration Baden Powell 'Votes for Women, Chastity for Men' New Liberalism Boer War Aliens Act DORA Rationing Internment Easter Rising Flappers 'Homes Fit for Heroes' 'Safety First'

Marie Stopes Jarrow March Mass Observation Blackpool BBC Marie Stopes 'Factory girls looking like actresses' Jarrow March Mass Observation Left Book Club Blackpool 'The Busy Man's Paper' BBC The popular front Dunkirk Army Bureau of Current Affairs Beveridge Report Festival of Britain Empire Windrush Suez Crisis EVWs ITV EEC CND "You've never had it so good" Anthony Crossland Angry Young Men Wolfenden Committee Twiggy Women's Liberation Punk Rock Enoch Powell Winter of Discontent Thatcherism Falklands War Section 28 Confessional Journalism Devolution

2. Analytical Questions
You will be presented with a choice of analytical questions in both the mid-term and final exam. Your answers should demonstrate the following qualities:- an understanding of the historiographical significance of the question; a detailed knowledge of the subject; an ability to develop and sustain an argument by using supporting evidence, including primary sources. A selection of the following questions will appear on the final exam.

a) 'The history of modern Britain from 1848 is the history of liberal government.' Discuss.
b) Compare and contrast Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions (1842) with the Beveridge Report (1942). In what ways do they indicate a shift from a liberal to a social democratic perspective?
c) Did liberalism depend upon either a separation of the public and private spheres or metropole and colony?
d) 'The impact of empire was only felt in Britain during decolonisation.' Discuss.
e) 'A nation-state characterised by a persistent localism.' Is this a fair characterisation of Britain after 1848?
f) How were women's lives transformed between 1848 and 1997, and what role did the women's movement play in effecting those changes?
g) Can one understand modern British history without giving a central role to class in British society?
h) To what extent has America shaped the history of modern Britain and how has that influence been greeted?
i) Does it make sense to understand modern British history as a story of decline?
j) How would you rewrite this course? Explain with reference not only to what you think has been excluded but in terms of how it has sought to explain the changing nature of British social, cultural and political life.
k) Has Britain ever had a popular culture? Give a working definition and chronology in your answer.
l) In what ways was politics in the late twentieth century different to the politics of the nineteenth century?