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British history

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British history (V210): Historical studies focusing on the British Isles.

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Course The City of Oxford, 1850 - 1914

We will investigate the economic, social and cultural changes that Oxford underwent in the later Victorian and Edwardian periods, taking it from a...

Architecture, History, Victorian, Edwardian, Social history view
Course The Age of Satire

The end of censorship in 1695 in England led to a dramatic change in the way people read and consumed political information.  Occasional satires (...

satire view
Course MLA Vides 2019

Welcome to the seventh edition of VIDES, the online journal produced by the students of the Department for Continuing Education, University of...

History, Material Culture, Literature, Theology, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Art view
Course From Civilisation to Barbarism? Western Britain in the Early Middle Ages

Did collapse, crisis, and ‘Celtic’ culture characterise post-Roman western Britain? How Roman was ‘British’ society during the 5th - 7th centuries...

Archaeology, Early Medieval, Dark Age, Celtic, Roman, Hillforts, 5th century, 6th century, 7th century, Early Middle Ages, Early Christian, History, Late Antiquity, Cultural Identity, Ethnic Identity, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic Studies, Social Identity, Material Culture, Household Archaeology, Romano-British, Byzantine, Migration Period view
Course Loyalty, Locality and the Nation

In the eighteenth century, new concepts of national identity began emerging. In the process long established local identities were challenged. And...

18th century, Georgian Britain, Nationhood view
Course MLA VIDES 2018

Welcome to the sixth edition of VIDES, the online journal produced by the students of the Department for Continuing Education, University of...

History, Material Culture, Literature, Theology, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Art view
Course MLA Vides 2023

Welcome to the 11th edition of VIDES, the online journal produced by the students of the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford...

History, Material Culture, Literature, Theology, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Art view
Course MLA Vides 2021

Welcome to the ninth edition of VIDES, the online journal produced by the students of the Department for Continuing Education, University of...

History, Material Culture, Literature, Theology, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Art view
Course MLA Vides 2020

Welcome to the eighth edition of VIDES, the online journal produced by the students of the Department for Continuing Education, University of...

History, Material Culture, Literature, Theology, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Art view
Course MLA Vides 2022

Welcome to the 10th edition of VIDES, the online journal produced by the students of the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford...

History, Material Culture, Literature, Theology, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Art view
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