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Sunday, September 30, 2012

The British empire in the 1920s


Website of the UK government

Website of the UK government : Directgov

What is the situation for people living today in the UK ?
Do they need an identity card?
Are dentists free?
How much must you pay to go to hospital?
How much must you pay to go to university ?

Answers to all these questions and hundreds more are available on the official website of the UK government. Just click on the above link. 

L3 Britain since 1945: Modern History Sourcebook: Let Us Face The Future: A Declaration of Labour Policy for the Consideration of the Nation, 1945

Modern History Sourcebook: Let Us Face The Future: A Declaration of Labour Policy for the Consideration of the Nation, 1945

Here is the Labour party manifesto from 1945, which won them a decisive victory.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Read "The Economist"

The Economist - World News, Politics, Economics, Business & Finance
Despite its name, The Economist writes about history, art and politics. It is a very good way of improving your English, since it is one of the best-written magazines in the world in English.

M1 Liberties in the UK : UK Parliamentary Elections, 1832 - 2005 - YouTube

UK Parliamentary Elections, 1832 - 2005 - YouTube

In four and a half minutes, revision of what happened in every parliamentary election since 1832. Retain the main trends, not the details!

LEA L1 Civilisation britannique first class

Cliquez ici pour télécharger, en MP3 un enregistrement du premier cours du 25 septembre. Le mieux est de faire un clique droit et choisir "enregistrer la cible sous".

keywords : Introduction to British civilization, British society, podcast, current affairs, university lecture

Thursday, September 27, 2012

M1 Liberty and liberties in the UK "Tyler Smiles" a song by Attila the Stockbroker




Click on this link to listen to the full version of Attila the Stockbroker's song from the 1990s. He wrote this song to celebrate the successful campaign against the flat rate Poll tax, a campaign which weakened Margaret Thatcher and led to her downfall. In the song, he imagines Wat Tyler, who died in a massive revolt against a flat rate tax many hundreds of years ago, smiling to see the campaign successful today. In particularn the parts of the country which ha dbeen very radical in the fourteenth century were known as conservative regions in the twentieth, and yet were very much involved in this campaign against Margaret Thatcher's policies.


Mon livre sur le site du groupe de recherche - La chanson populaire en Grande-Bretagne pendant la Grande Guerre 1914-1918, The show must go on !

Institut des mondes anglophone, germanique et roman - La chanson populaire en Grande-Bretagne pendant la Grande Guerre 1914-1918, The show must go on !

M1 Liberty and liberties in the UK : King John and the Magna Carta - YouTube

Magna Carta - YouTube
This 8 minute video explains some aspects of medieval government and the magna carta. It's particularly useful for M1 students, because I will be talking about this, but any student of British history should have a look.

LEA L1 CIVILISATION BRITANNIQUE CM

Je sais qu'un certain nombre d'étudiants n'ont pas eu la bonne information la semaine dernière et ont manqué le premier CM. Je vais mettre en ligne ce CM en version MP3 d'ici quelques jours.

Et une bonne nouvelle : nous avons un amphi plus grand. Le cours magistral aura lieu à partir de la semaine 2 en amphi orange au CMC. Si vous ne savez pas où c'est, c'est le moment de vous renseigner.
A mardi donc.

David Cameron fluffs citizenship test on David Letterman's Late Show | Politics | The Guardian

David Cameron fluffs citizenship test on David Letterman's Late Show | Politics | The Guardian

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

L3 British civilization : Britain since 1945

This is where you will find all the important information I forgot to give you in class.
Don't forget to get hold of the booklet of documents, which you can buy at the Libalu. You need to bring this with you to every class. You will be doing exposés based on the documents in this booklet (text commentaries).

Gove's new aide: professor who wanted the North written off - Education News - Education - The Independent

Gove's new aide: professor who wanted the North written off - Education News - Education - The Independent

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Leading academics fear tuition fees will price working class students out of higher education - Mirror Online

Leading academics fear tuition fees will price working class students out of higher education - Mirror Online

Opening Ceremony - London 2012 Olympic Games - YouTube

Here is the opening ceremony from the Olympic games in London 2012. It contains hundreds of references to British identity and some to social conflict. It was directed by Danny Boyle, director of the film "Trainspotting" who was given a great deal of independence, and some sections are considered to be quite critical of the government. Some Conservative newspapers denounced it as "marxist propaganda"! 

Opening Ceremony - London 2012 Olympic Games - YouTube

L3 Britain since 1945: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat - YouTube

Here is Winston Churchill's famous historic speech from 1940

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat - YouTube

Tutorat à Crétéil

Des tuteurs à l'écoute des étudiants de L1 anglais
dès le 24 septembre 2012 et pour tout le semestre:


le lundi entre 16h30 et 17h30
salle 143 le mercredi entre 13h et 15h
13h 14h salle  143  et de 14 a15h dans un box réservé à la bibliothèque le jeudi entre 15 et17h
15h 16hsalle 201  et de 16h à 17h dans un box réservé à la bibliothèque le vendredi entre 12 à13h
salle 258

Tout changement sera affiché sur la vitrine des L1 au premier étage du CMC

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Possibilité travail pour étudiants Master LLCE Anglais



L'université Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle recrute actuellement 30 tuteurs à distance, choisis parmi les étudiants inscrits en Master/Doctorat/Capes/Agrégation (anglais LLC principalement) pour l'année 2012-2013.

Ce travail s'effectue essentiellement sur Internet (sans heures de permanence fixes). Cette souplesse le rend particulièrement adaptable aux emplois du temps d'étudiants engagés dans un travail de recherche ou dans la préparation des concours.

Il leur apporte une rémunération appréciable (env. 1300 euros nets par an).

Il offre à ces futurs enseignants une première expérience pédagogique. La pratique du tutorat a permis d'améliorer les résultats des étudiants à distance de manière significative et constitue généralement une première expérience gratifiante.

Il comprend enfin une formation technique et une initiation à l'usage de technologies informatiques utiles à la pratique de l'enseignement.

Si vous voulez plus d'information, envoyez-moi un mail (john point mullen arobasse wanadoo point F R) et je vous enverrai la publicité entière. 

John Cooper Clarke: The punk poet whose time has come again - Profiles - People - The Independent

John Cooper Clarke: The punk poet whose time has come again - Profiles - People - The Independent

Literature Timeline

Literature Timeline

L3 Britain since 1945 National Service

British Light Infantry Regiments & National Service

In the second world war, joining the army was obligatory, but people frequently tried to avoid it, as this military history website recounts.

L3 British civilization - Britain since 1945 - "Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed

"Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed

This link takes you to the texte of one of the most famous poems from the Second World War.
First world war poems in Britain had concentrated either on patriotic glory (Rupert Brooke) or on the horrors, stupidity and criminality of war (Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and several others). This Second world war poem is more about individual emtotion - the narrator seems to be stunned and daydreaming whil he is taught to name the parts of his gun as part of his military training.

Monday, September 10, 2012

La rentrée s'approche

Ce semestre je vais enseigner les cours suivants

L1 Bloc 2 "Social and ethnic identities and conflicts in Britain".

L1 LEA CM "Introduction to British and Irish civilization".

L3 "Britain since 1945".

M1 Enseignement "Les libertés au royaume Uni".

M1 Enseignement "Préparation à l'épreuve 'Commentaire dirigé'".

M2 Master rédaction-traduction "Approfondissement de l'anglais".