Week I: Introduction
Jan 19: Introduction to the course and participants | Britain and the British Empire in 1900

Reading:
Jon Lawrence, "Paternalism, Class, and the British Path to Modernity" in Gunn & Vernon (eds.), The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain
Ronald Hyam, "The British Empire in the Edwardian Era" in Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. IV
Laura Mayhall, "Defining Militancy: Radical Protest, the Constitutional Idiom, and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1908-1909," Journal of British Studies, 39:3 (2000) [JSTOR]
Morgan, "The First World War" in Twentieth-century Britain

Week II: The British Disease: Economics and Culture in Modern Britain
Jan 24: Discussion: Wiener, Tomlinson
Jan 26: Discussion: Wiener, Tomlinson

Reading:
Wiener, English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit
Jim Tomlinson, "A Decline of the Empire and the Economic 'Decline' of Britain," Twentieth-Century British History (17:2) 2006
Morgan, "The Twenties" in Twentieth-century Britain

Week III: Class, Identity, and Social Change in Interwar Britain
Jan 31: Discussion: Wade
Feb 2: Discussion: Wade, Lammers

Reading:
Wade, Square Haunting
Benjamin Lammers, "The Birth of the East Ender: Neighborhood and Local Identity in Interwar East London," Journal of Social History, 39:2 (2005) [JSTOR]
Morgan, "The Thirties" in Twentieth-century Britain

Week IV: Their Finest Hour: World War II in British History
Feb 7: Discussion: Webster, Reynolds
Feb 9: Discussion: Webster, Reynolds

Reading:
Webster, Mixing It
David Reynolds, "The Churchill Government and Black American Troops in Britain in World War II," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Series, v.35 (1985) [JSTOR]
Morgan, "The Second World War" in Twentieth-century Britain

Documents:
Winston Churchill, "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat," "Their Finest Hour" (1940)

Archive:
Bombsight (National Archives/University of Portsmouth)
Mass Observation (University of Sussex)

Week V: You Never had it so Good! The Ups and Downs of Postwar Britain
Feb 14: Discussion: Wilson, Davis
Feb 16: Discussion: Campbell

Reading:
Campbell, The Beatles and the 1960s
Dolly Wilson, "A New Look at the Affluent Worker: The Good Working Mother in Postwar Britain," Twentieth-Century British History, 17:2 (2006)
John Davis, "The London Drug Scene and the Making of Drug Policy, 1965-73," Twentieth-Century British History, 17:1 (2006)
Morgan, "The Post-war World" and "From the Seventies to the Nineties" in Twentieth-century Britain

Video:
Crown Film Unit, "Festival in London" (1951)
Pathé News, Coronation of Elizabeth II (1953)

Week VI: Decolonization, Immigration, and Dismantling the British Empire
Feb 21: Discussion: Bailkin
Feb 23: Discussion: Bailkin, Darwin

Reading:
Bailkin, Unsettled
John Darwin, "Imperialism in Decline? Tendencies in Imperial Policy between the Wars," The Historical Journal, 23:3 (1980) [JSTOR]

Document:
Harold Macmillan, "The Wind of Change" (1960)

Week VII: Dismantling the British Empire (continued)
Feb 28: Discussion: Bailkin, Howe
Mar 2: Individual meetings during class period to discuss topic

Reading:
Bailkin, Unsettled
Stephen Howe, "Internal Decolonization? British Politics since Thatcher as Post-colonial Trauma," Twentieth-Century British History, 14:3 (2003)
Morgan, "Towards the Millennium" in Twentieth-century Britain

THESIS PROPOSAL AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE MAR 2

Week VIII: Topic Meetings
Mar 7: Individual meetings during class period to discuss topic
Mar 9: Individual meetings during class period to discuss topic

Week IX: Primary Sources
Mar 14: Presentation of primary sources, Group I
Mar 16: Special guest: Jordanna Bailkin, University of Washington

DETAILED THESIS OUTLINE DUE MAR 14

Week X: Writing and Research
Mar 28: Presentation of primary sources, Group II
Mar 30: Presentation of primary sources, Group III

THESIS DRAFT DUE IN CLASS MAR 30

Week XI: Peer Review
Apr 4: Peer review of thesis drafts, Group I
Apr 6: Peer review of thesis drafts, Group II

Week XII: Peer Review
Apr 11: Peer review of thesis drafts, Group III
Apr 13: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor)

Week XIII: Writing and Editing
Apr 18: Individual meetings with instructor
Apr 20: Individual meetings with instructor

Week XIV: Conclusion
Apr 25: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor)
Apr 27: Final discussion | Poster Session, Watzek Library Atrium, 4:30-6:00pm

FINAL THESIS DUE BY 11:59 pm FRIDAY, APR 29