There will be a heavy emphasis on student engagement with a range of materials from on-line journals. The following will also be used:

Hewitt, N.A. "Introduction." A Companion to American Women's History. Hewitt, Nancy A. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Blackwell Reference Online.
Marcuse, Harold. "Memories of World War II and the Holocaust in Europe." A Companion to Europe 1900-1945. Martel, Gordon (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Blackwell Reference Online.
Crane, Susan A. "The Conundrum of Ephemerality: Time, Memory and Museums." A Companion to Museum Studies. Macdonald, Sharon (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Blackwell Reference.
Berger, Stefan. "National Movements." A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe. Berger, Stefan (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Blackwell Reference Online.
Croll, Andy. "Popular Leisure and Sport." A companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain. Williams, Chris (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Blackwell Reference Online.
Kayle, H.J. (2000) 'Framing the Spark of Hope in the Past: The British Marxist Historians' Rethinking History 4:3 281-294.
C.Hall (1992) White Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feministm and History, Polity.
Samuel, Raphael, Theatres of Memory. Vol. 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture. (Verso, London, 1994), Vol. 2: Island Stories: Unravelling Britain (Verso, London, 1998).
Midgely, Clare (ed.) Gender and Empire (Manchester: MUP, 1998).
C.Hall (2002) Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867, Polity
Slotkin, R. (2005) 'Fiction for the Purposes of History' in Rethinking History Vol. 9 Issue 2/3 June 2005 p 221-236
S.R. Rose (1992) Limited Livelihoods: gender and class in the nineteenth century England, Routledge.

In week 6 or 7 of the semester there will be a 24 hour take-away paper, requiring students to undertake an essay of 1,000-1,500 words in response to a question exploring students understanding and engagement with the concepts of: class, gender, race, imperialism and nationalism - 50%. (Learning Outcomes 1, 3 and 4).

At the end of the semester an essay of between 1,000 amd 1,500 words requiring students to critically engage with recently developed concepts such as: globalisation, post-colonialism, heritage, memory and post-modernism - 50%. (Learning Outcomes 2, 3 and 4).

This module is intended to assist students transfer to honours level study and introduce them to some of the conceptual and theoretical debates that have framed historians work in the last 40 years.

Students will initially be introduced to the concepts of: class, gender, race, imperialism and nationalism and explore the usefulness of these concepts in studying the history of Britain in the long nineteenth century.

Following the first assessment students will then engage with a range of recent debates which have problematised these concepts and offered different ways of understanding the past including: globalisation, post-colonialism, heritage, memory and post-modernism.

The module will be team taught, through weekly one-hour lectures followed up by weekly one-hour seminars taught by the mdoule co-ordinator.

Students will be required to extend their learning in the taught sessiona by tutor directed study in the first half of the module and by student directed study in the second half of the module. The preparation of informal seminar presentations will serve to focus student's independent study and assist students in preparing undertake assessments. Students will be provided with tutorials to assist them in preparing seminar presentations and undertaking their essay.

Lectures 10 hours, seminars 10 hours, tutorials 0.5 hours, independent study 129.5 hours.

Library, the Internet and a range of on-line journals such as: History Workshop Journal, Oral History, Social History, Gender and History, Rethinking History, Victorian Studies, Radical History Review.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.