12 hours of lectures which provide the broad framework for the course material and outline the strengths and weaknesses of the Marwick Model. 12 hours of seminars which will provide the opportunity to clarify your understanding and to debate the issues, underpinned by independent studies.

This essay to be submitted by the notified deadline, will test your ability to utilize selected documentary evidence in order to evaluate the contested nature of war and social change in modern Britain.

Recommended Library Books and Journals.

This module examines the impact of World Wars One and Two on social change in Britain in the Twentieth Century. It critically engages with the Marwick Model in respect of guided and unguided changes as a result of involvement in total war, covering the themes of social class, gender, ethnicity, civil liberties, collectivism and the emergence of the post-1945 political consensus. Using documentary evidence, the Marwick model is applied to case studies embracing, for example, the concept of a 'servile state', the role of propaganda, evacuation, race relations, the participation of women, war welfarism, crime and leisure.

Gerard J De Groot, Blighty, British Society in the Era of the Great War, London, Longman, 1996.
Peter Dewey, War and Progress: Britain 1914 - 1945, London, Longman, 1996.
Langen, M. & Schwarz, W. (eds.) Crises in the British State 1880-1930, London, Hutchinson, 1985
Marwick,. A. ed., Total War and Social Change, London, Macmillan, 1988
Pope, R. , War & Society in Britain 1899-1948, London, Longman, 1994
Harold Smith (ed.) Britain and the Second World War. A Social History, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1996.
Harold Smith (ed.) War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, Manchester, Manchester University
Press, 1986.