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The essay to be submitted by the notified deadline, will test your understanding of the organizing themes of conflict and change, and the Victorian compromise.

These Learning Strategies will occupy your Time: 12 hours of lectures which provide the broad framework for the course material and outline the main ideas. 12 hours of seminars which will provide the opportunities to clarify your understanding and to participate in debate on the themes of conflict and change, underpinned by independent study.

This module explores the political, social and cultural consequences of the cotton and railway phases of industrialization. Particular attention is paid to the themes of conflict and change, and to an understanding of the emergence of what constituted Victorianism by 1851. Central to the concerns of the module are the role of class and protest (Chartism and the Anti-Corn Law League), gender, religion, education and urban life.