Society and Politics in Victorian Britain Part 2

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Explain the contentious topic of Britain's maintenance of its global Empire in the Victorian period.
• Weigh different categories of evidence and the different approaches of historians and other scholars.
• Understand the foundations for Britain's perception of the world and perceptions of Britain from other powers.
• Understand the context of documentation and how it might be located.
• Identify and examine the roles of conflict and diplomacy in the foreign policy of Victorian Britain.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The concept of nationalism in a British context.
• Key historiographical and conceptual approaches to examining Victorian Britain's place in the world.
• Using primary sources from the Archives and Special Collections at the Hartley Library for examining foreign policies in Victorian Britain.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Work effectively to locate sources and literature.
• Develop time management skills.
• Research and write effectively in order to produce essays.
• Analyse primary sources.

Thematic topics may include:

• humanitarianism
• colonial violence
• freedoms and unfreedoms
• making gender
• making race
• exploration

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include: presentations by students on secondary reading and primary sources; small and large group discussions; structured in-depth reading and analysis of the module texts

Learning activities include: preparatory reading, individual research and study prior to each class; preparing and delivering short presentations relating to aspects of the module, as directed by the tutor; close study of primary sources; participation in small and large group discussion

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

W. Baumgart (1998). The Crimean War. Arnold.

S. MacKenzie (2001). The Victorian Vision: Inventing New Britain.

S. Mahajan (2002). British Foreign Policy 1874-1914.

J. Aldred (2004). British Imperial and Foreign Policy 1846-1980.

William Mulligan and Brendan Simms (eds) (2010). The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History 1660-2000 How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain.

L. James (1994). The Rise and Fall of the British Empire.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External