22 hours of workshops which provide the broad framework for the course and encourage students to engage with the theoretical modules and a range of primary source material. Tutorials will serve to encourage students to undertake assessments which will both engage with the main course material and enable students to develop their own areas or research.

This module will initially engage with the cultural memories of the first and second world war in contemporary Britain and then examine the impact of World Wars One and Two on social change and/or cultural memory in Britain in the Twentieth Century. It will critically engage with the Marwick Model in social changes as a result of involvement in total war, covering the themes such as social class, gender, ethnicity and the emergence of the post-1945 political consensus drawing upon a range of documentary evidences to case studies such as: evacuation, Health, housing, race relations, the participation of women and war welfare.

Addison P. and Jones H.A, A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939-200, Blackwell 2007 p3-22
Jones H. (2006) British Civilians in the Front Line, Manchester
Marwick A. (ed) Total War and Social Change, Macmillan Press, 1988 chapter 1 p23
Rose S. (2003) Which People's War, Oxford
Todman D. (2005) The Great War: Myth and Memory Continuum

University Computers for access to internet resources, recommended books, articles, video's and DVD's from the library.
Students will also be encouraged to make use of a range of online resources available including screen online.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

This essay must both involve an engagement with a range of academic debates, the utilization of selected documentary evidence in order to evaluate the contested nature of either war and/or social change or war and cultural memory. The essay must also demonstrate students ability to extend knowledge beyond areas covered in class by undertaking research on either Britain or another European country in the twentieth century.