Social history

Here you will find all the resources identified by our tutors as useful for the study of this subject, arranged in ascending alphabetical order. Browse the tiles and descriptions to discover if there are any resources of interest to you, or click on any of the keywords to see resources sorted by more in-depth topics.

Social history (V320): The interpretation of the underlying processes of change in society. Includes the study of the growth and development of societies in history.

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Title	Description	Keywords	Full details
George Romney: Emma Hart as Circe c.1782	This link takes to to some useful information about George Romney's painting of Emma Hart as Circe, c.1782, in the Tate Gallery, London ...	Emma Hamilton, Emma Hart, Nelson, Sir William Hamilton, George Romney, Portraiture, Collectors, 18th century, Long 18th Century	view
Agricultural revolution week 1 slides	Introduction	Agricultural history, agricultural revolution, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century	view
British Women's History	Concentrates on British women's emancipation since the Renaissance, bringing together many primary sources and presenting essays, summaries and...	Gender, Women, Sufferage, History	view
Hidden Lives - Children in Care 1881-1918	Unique archive material about poor and disadvantaged children cared for by The Waifs and Strays' Society (later the Children's Society) in the...	Children, Poverty, 19th century, 20th century, Victorian, Edwardian, Social reform, Charities, Houses & housing, History	view
Private Spaces for Public Consumption: Female Privacy as Erotic Satire in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture, Ruby Rutter	Female privacy in eighteenth-century British print culture was often represented as facilitating salacious and debauched behaviour. The...	18th century, satire, feminism	view
Protesting Peterloo: The ‘Fanciful’ and the ‘Domestic’, Helen Leach	This essay will explore two artefacts produced in response to the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Masque of Anarchy and John...	19th century, Social history, engraving, Literature, Reform	view
Reading list and discussion topics to Week 10	Reading list and discussion topics to Week 10	agricultural revolution, 19th century	view
Reading list and discussion topics to Week 5	Reading list and discussion topics to Week 5	agricultural revolution, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century	view
Reading list and discussion topics to Week 7	Reading list to Week 7	agricultural revolution, 18th century, 19th century	view
Reading list to Week 9	Reading list to Week 9	agricultural revolution	view

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