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Main theme(s)
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Week 1
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Introduction to the
course : definitions, stereotypes, identities. Social divisions
in Britain today.
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Week 2
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Northern
Ireland : community and conflict
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Week 3
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National identities
in Scotland and Wales
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Week 4
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History of
immigration and multiculturalism
Part 1 : Jewish
and Irish immigrants 1850-1940
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Week 5
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Part 2 : Caribbean immigrants, Indians and Pakistanis 1945- 2000.
History of racism and antiracism.
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Week 6
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DST
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Week 7
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Part 3 :
Immigration, racism and multiculturalism in Britain today. Eastern
European immigrants, hybrid identities.
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Week 8
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History of identity
and conflicts at work before 1945. Taff Vale, the General strike, the hungry
thirties.
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Week 9
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Identities and
conflicts at work after 1945. The post-war boom, Thatcher and Blair; working
in Britain in the 21st century.
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Week 10
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Being a woman in
Britain part one : women’s movements 1900-2010, progress and limits in
Britain today.
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Week 11
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Being a woman
in Britain, part two
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Week 12
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History of gay
identities in Britain : before and after legalization, political
movements and cultural representations in Britain today.
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Week 13
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Examen
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Civilisation
britannique Britain since 1945
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Week one
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The End of the war, and the new
Britain
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Week two
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Attlee’s brave new world 1945 – 55
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Week three
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« You’ve never had it so
good » Macmillan ;
The « wind of
change » : decolonization
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Week four
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From Wilson’s « White heat of
technology » through the « liberated sixties » to Edward Heath
and the end of the post-war boom
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Week five
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The seventies : Mass
unemployment, Heath and Callaghan
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Week six
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The 1980s, Thatcher and Thatcherism
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Week seven
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Blair and the Third Way, and the elections
of 2010
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Week eight
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DST
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Week nine
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History of British art since 1945
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Week ten
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Cinema, popular music and Popular
culture since 1945
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Week ten
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Immigration Race and racism since 1945
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Week eleven
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Major debates in Britain today (i)
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Week twelve
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Major debates in Britain today (ii)
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Final Exam
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