John Mullen, Université de Rouen - Teaching blog: March 2014

Il n'y aura pas de cours le 3 avril (je vais à un colloque à Toulouse).
Il n'y aura pas de cours non plus le 10 avril (je dois intervenir à Stockholm).

Ces deux cours seront rattrapés le 28 avril, de 15h à 17h, en salle i1 105.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

L2 Thème date changes

Notez bien les dates et les horaires des cours suivants:

Classe à l'heure habituelle dans la salle habituelle :

jeu 27 mars 11h30 i2 219

Classe suivante à un horaire inhabituelle :

mardi 1er avril 15h30 salle i1 339

Classe annulée: jeu 3 avril

Classe annulée jeu 10 avril

Classe supplémentaire: mardi 15 avril 15h30 salle i1 339

Classe à l'heure habituelle : jeu 17 avril 11h30 i2 219

Leeds school to teach English as foreign language | Education | The Guardian

Challenges and successes for multiculturalism in Britain.

Leeds school to teach English as foreign language | Education | The Guardian

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

L1 Panorama: The Roman Invasion of Britain - S01E01 - YouTube

Look at this documentary ▶ The Roman Invasion of Britain - S01E01 - YouTube

L1 Panorama: The Roman Invasion of Britain - S01E01 - YouTube

Look at this documentary ▶ The Roman Invasion of Britain - S01E01 - YouTube

▶ Neil Kinnock on Labour not winning 1983 general election (10June1983) - YouTube

Britain since 1945: A Film Portrait of Michael Foot - YouTube

A documentary about a leading member of the Labour Party during the 1980s

▶ Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael Foot - YouTube

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

I, too, am Oxford.

Photo campaign about being non-white as an Oxford student.

I, too, am Oxford.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Britain since 1945 series: podcast lecture on Thatcherism

Last week's lecture in the series "Britain since 1945" dealt with Thatcherism in the 1980s : its theory and practice, and the opinions and conflicts which sprang up around it. You can find the lecture in Mp3 format here. It is quite a big file.

Keywords: podcast, University lecture, British history, contemporary history, Margaret Thatcher, 1980s, theory and practice.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Me, being interviewed on BBC Radio 4 - 1914-1918: The Cultural Front, Arf a Mo, Kaiser: Popular Culture on All Fronts

BBC Radio interviewed me last week about popular music in the First World War, and here you can hear it on their website: click here

▶ BBC Radio 4 - 1914-1918: The Cultural Front, Arf a Mo, Kaiser: Popular Culture on All Fronts

Friday, March 14, 2014

Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady (Documentary) 2012 - YouTube

Miners strike (channel 4 Coal not Dole) - YouTube

A video made by supporters of the strike, during the great miners' strike of 1984-85, which lasted a year.

▶ Miners strike (channel 4 Coal not Dole) - YouTube

▶ A Video Mash-up of Margaret Thatcher's Memorable Remarks - YouTube

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

L1 Panorama date change

Pour les étudiants qui suivent actuellement avec moi "Britain since the Romans'.
Jeudi 13 mars aura lieu le dernier cours de la série de six. Vous aurez ensuite six cours avec M Marche, sur la civilisation américaine. Mais cette série de cours ne commencera pas le 20 mars, mais le 27 mars.

Pour les étudiants qui suivent actuellement le panorama de la civilisation américaine avec M Marche. Jeudi 13 mars aura lieu le dernier cours de la série de six. Dès la semaine prochaine, le 20 mars, vous commencerez une série de cours avec moi, "Britain since the Romans" dans la salle i2 219, à la même heure (10h30).

Monday, March 10, 2014

4,000-year-old Dartmoor burial find rewrites British bronze age history | Science | theguardian.com

Sunday, March 09, 2014

Un auteur anglais pense que la France est en guerre contre « ses Arabes » - Le nouvel Observateur

Quand un anglais qui habite à Paris écrit sur la France et la politique, ce n'est pas toujours intelligent ni utile!

Un auteur anglais pense que la France est en guerre contre « ses Arabes » - Le nouvel Observateur

▶ BBC Radio 4 - 1914-1918: The Cultural Front, Words for Battle

At the link below you can listen to the first episode of a BBC Radio 4 programme, "The Cultural Front". This programme will produce three episodes a year for the next four years, and will look at how culture - from poetry to pop music, from painting to classical music - was affected by the First World War in Britain, France, Germany and Russia. In Episode two there is an interview with me!

▶ BBC Radio 4 - 1914-1918: The Cultural Front, Words for Battle

Saturday, March 08, 2014

Britain since 1945 : the nineteen seventies. History podcast.

You can find by clicking here my lecture on the nineteen seventies in Britain. "The Glam, disco, punk and metal years" according to one commentator. "When the lights went out" according to a recent book title, referring to the power cuts resulting from the mass miners' strikes.

In any case, the nineteen seventies saw the end of the post-war boom, mass industrial conflict at Saltley Gates or over the imprisonment of the Pentonville Five, the deepening of the crisis in Northern Ireland after Bloody Sunday, and the transformation of the Conservative Party with the election to its leadership of Margaret Thatcher.

Keywords: British history; 1970s; podcast; university lecture; contemporary history

Thursday, March 06, 2014

What was it like to live in 1900

A Television crew and a group of historians decided a few years tp recreate life in 1900 in Britain. They recreated a house of the time and asked a modern family to live in those conditions for a few months. The result is a fascinating and moving documentary : click below for the first episode:

The 1900 House

Britain since the Romans: The Industrial revolution

This video looks at the question :

why did the industrial revolution happen first in Britain ?

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

John Mullen- Teaching blog: Les manuscrits de 1844, de Karl Marx

Les manuscrits de 1844 et comment Marx est devenu marxiste.

Le powerpoint et l'enregistrement du même séminaire de l'année dernière peuvent être téléchargé ici:

John Mullen- Teaching blog: Les manuscrits de 1844, de Karl Marx