Video and television
Slide Library
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

G. Barraclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History, Pelican, 1987.
D. Beddoe, Discovering Women's History, Longman, 1998.
P. Calvocoressi, World Politics since 1945, 7th Edition, Longman, 1996.
E. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century.
W. Keylor, The Twentieth Century World. 2nd Edition. OUP, 1992.
T.E. Vadney, The World Since 1945. 2nd Edition, Pelican 1991.

These learning strategies will occupy your time in the form of 150 hours total learning time of which 24 hours will be class contact.This will be in the form of weekly 1 hour lectures which will be used to provide historical background and theoretical debates to some of the most important events of the twentieth century. The seminars will be used to allow students the opportunity to discuss in specific terms their readings, independent learning and issues raised by this. 126 hours will be allocated for independent learning.

Covering the period 1914-1990 the module considers themes and patterns, continuities and discontinuities in history. War,'Modernity' and Civilisation; Women in International History; the 'dwarfing' of Europe; 'disorder' in the 20th Century; the impact ofWorld War One and World War Two; issues raised by imperialism and decolonisation; the emergence of the Third World; ideological divide of East and West; the end of the Cold War.

Learning Outcomes 1-3