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History by period (V100): Recording and interpreting past events and social and political developments chronologically.

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Type Title Description Keywords Full details
Link John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1690

John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1690

English Civil War, Charles I, Charles II, Glorious Revolution, Hobbes, Locke view
Course A Special Relationship? Anglo-American relations from 1763 to the present

How did Britain’s relationship with the USA alter between the War of Independence and the war in Iraq, and why? We will examine whether it has,...

America, blighty, UK, USA view
Course Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century: Politics and Society, 1688-1832

The long eighteenth century was a time of profound change for the British Isles. England, Scotland and Ireland would be unified, society...

view
Course British Agricultural Revolution 1600-1870

Recent historical research has challenged previous ideas about the timing and nature of a British agricultural revolution when agricultural...

Archaeology, Agriculture, Agricultural history view
Link Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

French Revolution, Edmund Burke, Whigs view
Course History And The Novel: Europe And The Shadow Of War 1914 - 1953

From World War to Cold War, Europe was fundamentally altered, in ways which created grand narratives in History & Literature. This course...

European history, modern Europe, Russian Revolution, World War One, World War Two view
Link Madame de Rémusat, Remembrances of Napoleon, 1880

Madame de Rémusat, Remembrances of Napoleon, 1880

Napoleon, French Revolution, Napoleonic Empire view
Link Madame de Stael, Ten Years Exile, 1821

Madame de Stael, Ten Years Exile, 1821 (about the experience of living in Napoleonic Europe)

Napoleonic Empire view
Course The American Civil War

The American Civil War witnessed 11 states leave the United States to form the Confederate States of America, was...

The American Civil War view
Course The Best and Worst of Times?: Culture, Crime, Identity in Victorian England

Victorian England was above all, an era of contrasts, where polite society primness sat alongside back street squalor, and imperial grandeur...

dickens, empire, Jack the Ripper view
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