Week I: Introduction
Jan 22: Introduction to the course and participants | Britain and the British Empire in 1900

Week II: Empire, Economy, and Class at the Start of the 20th Century
Jan 27: Discussion: Tomlinson, Lawrence, Hyam
Jan 29: Discussion: Tomlinson, Lawrence, Hyam

Reading:
Jim Tomlinson, "A Decline of the Empire and the Economic 'Decline' of Britain," Twentieth-Century British History (17:2) 2006
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
Morgan, "The First World War" in Twentieth-century Britain

Week III: Class, Identity, and Social Change in Interwar Britain
Feb 3: Discussion: Wade
Feb 5: 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 Twenties" and "The Thirties" in Twentieth-century Britain

Week IV: Their Finest Hour: World War II in British History
Feb 10: Discussion: Webster, Reynolds
Feb 12: 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 17: Discussion: Potter
Feb 19: Discussion: Wilson, Davis

Reading:
Potter, This is the BBC
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: Dismantling the British Empire
Feb 24: Discussion: Linstrum
Feb 26: Discussion: Linstrum, Darwin

Reading:
Linstrum, Age of Emergency
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)
Mar 3: Discussion: Linstrum, Howe
Mar 5: Individual meetings during class period to discuss topic

Reading:
Linstrum, Age of Emergency
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 5

Week VIII: Topic Meetings
Mar 10: Individual meetings during class period to discuss topic
Mar 12: Individual meetings during class period to discuss topic

Week IX: Primary Sources
Mar 17: Presentation of primary sources, Group I
Mar 19: Special guest: Jordanna Bailkin, University of Washington

DETAILED THESIS OUTLINE DUE MAR 17

Week X: Writing and Research
Mar 31: Presentation of primary sources, Group II
Apr 2: Presentation of primary sources, Group III

THESIS DRAFT DUE IN CLASS APR 2

Week XI: Peer Review
Apr 7: Peer review of thesis drafts, Group I
Apr 9: Peer review of thesis drafts, Group II

Week XII: Peer Review
Apr 14: Peer review of thesis drafts, Group III
Apr 16: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor)

Week XIII: Writing and Editing
Apr 21: Individual meetings with instructor
Apr 23: Individual meetings with instructor

Week XIV: Conclusion
Apr 28: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor)
Apr 30: Final discussion | Poster Session, Watzek Library Atrium, 4:30-6:00pm

FINAL THESIS DUE BY 11:59 pm FRIDAY, MAY 2