Agrégation: History of the BBC week two

You will find here a recording of a BBC class in which I deal with the  BBC and cultural history, and the BBC and the history of representations, before going on to speak of the commissions of enquiry which punctuated the life of the organization from 1922 to 1995.

http://jcmullen.fr/BBCamiens2.mp3

This may not be exactly the class you attended, and any administrative information in it may not apply to your group.

Remember if you use the search engine at the top of this page on the blog, you will find all the posts I made last year about the BBC, with many links to Youtube videos and articles.

M1 MEEF Britain since the Romans: week two

I got through the Middle Ages last week, and as far as the start of the Civil War. 

I recorded the classes, which now make up these British history podcasts: They will be useful for you for revision, or if you missed the class because you were ill or whatever.

This one on the Middle Ages in Britain, the Norman invasion and all that 

http://www.jcmullen.fr/meef2amiddleages.mp3

This one on the Reformation

http://www.jcmullen.fr/meef2breformation.mp3

Next week will cover the Civil War and continue as far as the Industrial Revolution.

On the civil war, this podcast in French by France Inter is worth a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVptYZeYKYc

On the Industrial Revolution, I recommend this documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYln_S2PVYA&

L3 racism and antiracism etc

I mentioned in class the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993, and the political earthquake caused by the evidence of police racism. This documentary explains the story 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxGjpOcBfpk 

 

 

Agrégation: History of the BBC week one

You will find here podcasts of BBC classes from the first week.

1a  General Introduction

1b What questions need to be asked about the history of the BBC

This may not be exactly the class you attended, and any administrative information in it may not apply to your group.

Remember if you use the search engine at the top of this page on the blog, you will find all the posts I made last year about the BBC, with many links to Youtube videos and articles.

News: Anti Catholicism in Scotland

 Today' s news

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/18/dont-pass-catholic-churches-protests-as-glasgow-braces-for-orange-walks 

Britain since the Romans part one. MEEF 1 civilisation britannique

You will find here the recordings of the first class, which you may need for revision purposes, or for a classmate who couldn't get there.

Podcast one looks at the history of Roman Britain

http://www.jcmullen.fr/0921meef1romans1a.mp3

Podcast two looks at the Anglo Saxon invasion and the period up to 1066.

http://www.jcmullen.fr/0921meefromans1b.mp3

The documentary I recommend on Roman Britain is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvtVLa4uOYc&t=138s

I mentioned in class a viking warrior who had been thought male but was actually a woman. article here:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/viking-warrior-woman-archaeology-spd

L3 Popular culture : historical background

Every week I will be suggesting videos or articles.

One of the important streams of British history since 1945 is the story of racism, anti racism and immigration. This entertaining documentary takes Black British people today and asks them to « travel back in time ». This is episode one, but more are available on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/F9B1qevOK8U 

les salles de la semaine 1

 mardi 10h30 L3 Culture populaire A107

mardi 15h30 L3 Culture populaire L101

mercredi 10h30 Thème A202

mercredi 15h-17h30 BBC L307

Latest news from Northern Ireland

 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/09/northern-ireland-dup-may-walk-out-of-stormont-power-sharing-over-brexit-protocol 

Thème agrégation/ thème M2 Rouen 15 septembre 2021

Lorsque les salles seront connues, elles seront affichées au cinquième étage du bâtiment A.

Vous trouverez ici les textes que nous travaillerons durant le premier semestre. Traduisez le premier avant le premier cours. Si vous avez le temps, traduisez le deuxième et envoyez-le-moi par mail john dot mullen at univ-rouen.fr . Je renverrai en principe une correction personnalisée avant le deuxième cours.

Classes will be held on site and we will be wearing masks. Many thanks to all those who have been vaccinated and so are helping to improve the situation.

Passages for translation here :

http://www.jcmullen.fr/0921themebooklet.pdf

Private and state schools

 A TV team decided it would be both amusing and educational to get a group of pupils from a wealthy private school, and another group of pupils from an ordinary state school, to exchange schools for a period of time and see how they reacted.  Remember that going to a private school in Britain is *much rarer* than in France, and that private scgools often cost 10 000 to 30 000 pounds a year.

Here is episode one:

(121) School Swap The Class Divide | Season 1 Episode 1 - YouTube 

First Nations men in Australia

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/05/loving-ourselves-is-an-act-of-defiance-tender-and-heartbreaking-letters-to-fathers-and-sons

La laïcité

 Savoir ce que c'est la laïcité est essentielle, et il semble y avoir de la confusion. Une amie a vu une enseignante dire à un enfant de ne pas parler arabe dans la cour de récré, à cause de la laïcité ...

Voici la loi de 1905; on voit rarement ce texte dans le débat:

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000508749/

A new way to look at Scottish history

 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/18/great-tapestry-of-scotland-to-go-on-show-at-its-own-gallery-for-first-time 

Agrégation BBC 1922-1995 Post 56 "That was the week that was". Satire in 1962-3

 This documentary explains how the programme "That was the week that was" revolutionized TV satire in 1962.

(73) That Was The Week That Was (60 BBC Years) - YouTube

Agrégation BBC 1922 to 1955 post 55 Dixon of Dock Green

 The police series has undergone a large number of transformations over the decades. This episode from a BBC police series in the late 1950s gives us much to think about. Note that there are no corrupt or alcoholic cops in this series !

https://youtu.be/1tQRglQqyf8 

Vaccins

 S’il y a , aujourd’hui en France, 48 morts du Covid par jour, et pas 400 comme il y a quelques mois, c’est grâce à ceux et celles qui se sont fait vacciner. Si ce n’est pas déjà fait, rejoignez le mouvement ! Si c’est déjà fait, prenez le temps de convaincre un e camarade pas sûr…

Anti racism in British football today

https://trib.al/KvZOHQb?fbclid=IwAR2bu5fV2_cMfCvj9WdamZgpDZsMj_a5XFHQhiLqPlJaMxuaF0y-ygEbEsA

History of the BBC post 54 agrégation anglais civilisation britannique : BBC archives

 If you are on Facebook, look regularly at this page which gives clips from TV in times gone by.

https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive

Rouen Master Recherche - Langues et Sociétés

 Vous trouverez ici la brochure du master recherche dans sa nouvelle version

http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Memento_LES_provisoire-2021-2022.pdf 

The history of the BBC 1922 -95 ( agrégation anglais civilisation britannique) post 53 : Adult literacy

 You remember the BBC slogan “inform, educate, entertain?” When thinking of the BBC and education, one might think first of documentaries, but there was so much more. Here is an extract from “On the Move” from the 1970s, a programme for adults who could not read or write. Defenders of the BBC would certainly underline the fact that commercial television would not produce such programmes.

https://youtu.be/ufVe521quok

Vacances

 J espère que les vacances se passent bien et que tout le monde va profiter d’un peu de temps libre …pour se faire vacciner!

Football

 You may have heard about the football. In this Guardian cartoon, Johnson is criticized for ( allegedly) pretending to care about football, for opportunistic reasons. The cartoonist suggests he knows nothing about it.

A little Australian history

 This podcast, in French, speaks of the terrible racist campaign against Australian aboriginals some decades ago: the story of the stolen generations:

https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/les-hommes-aux-semelles-de-vent/australie-22-stolen-generations-l-enlevement-des-enfants?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0E8TngYG6Z1uMgYf2LtPBVRp-JPagvZlwf-wQOMxjR8KMek5peL5WvSMQ#Echobox=1625757647 

Rebuilding Britain after WW2

 Fabulous 1946 documentary by film maker Jill Craigie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8V-Zcd5bU

Is New Zealand a multicultural society?

 This discussion is very thought-provoking, and often entertaining. (In English after the first couple of minutes).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUbd7EGu36I 

Vaccins

 Un grand merci aux étudiants qui se font vacciner. Même si on ne voit plus les milliers de morts par semaine, la vaccination casse les chaînes et sauve des vies, en France, et aussi très loin d’ici.

Changement de lieu Réunion information agrégation

 Chers toutes et tous,

afin d'éviter les problèmes techniques, nous préférons organiser la réunion d'information sur l'agrégation du mercredi 30 juin à 17h30 dans une salle Zoom, accessible en suivant le lien ci-dessous. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83212403402?pwd=QTlyUk5RRXYyVjJVQk9ScVdEanE0dz09

Meeting ID: 832 1240 3402

Passcode: N2qaBR

News today

 If you like scandal news today is a good day to look at the UK

papers.

Story here https://www.lci.fr/international/royaume-uni-le-ministre-de-la-sante-matt-hancock-s-excuse-apres-des-accusations-d-infidelite-2189837.html

British TV is popular in Europe

 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/25/the-thought-is-unbearable-europeans-react-as-eu-plans-to-cut-british-tv 

New zealand politics can be fun

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/23/jacinda-ardern-puppet-game-of-thrones-new-zealand-pm-chloe-swarbrick-judith-collins 

UK cinema after Brexit

 Discussed  here

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/21/eu-prepares-cut-amount-british-tv-film-shown-brexit 

Corn Laws

 A left wing view of a key moment in British history .

https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/51982/How+the+Corn+Laws+split+the+ruling+class 

Il y a longtemps en Angleterre

 ARTE regarde ce que des archéologues ont récemment découvert près de Cambridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4G-c0bzY1Q 

Statues, racism and politics

 The BBC has put out a video concerning the events where the statue of a slave owner, in Bristol, was taken down by demonstrators and thrown into the river. How much progress has been made against racism in the UK? What are the different attitudes towards celebrating historical figures? Although this documentary is far from perfect, it opens up important questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDx6_u60NI&t=27s

Préparation de l'agrégation d'anglais 2022: réunion d'information

 

Mercredi 30 juin à 17h30

Réunion d’information sur la préparation de l’agrégation externe et interne d’anglais à l’Université de Rouen

Réunion virtuelle à ce lien:

 

https://webconf.univ-rouen.fr/greenlight/tis-ijm-xqg-poe

Des recommandations y seront données pour chaque matière ainsi que des conseils d'ordre plus général.

 

Anne- Laure Tissut anne-laure.tissut@univ-rouen.fr

John Mullen john.mullen@univ-rouen.fr

Conférence en ligne - égalité ethnique au Pays de Galles

Il y a actuellement beaucoup de  conférences et séminaires en ligne, généralement gratuits et ouverts à tout le monde. En voici un qui pourrait intéresser.

 le GIS MiDiB s'associe à la conférence : 

Showing true colours: the changing politics of race equality in Wales

par Charlotte Williams, OBE (Honorary Professor, Bangor University), qui sera donnée en ligne à l'université d'Aberystwyth le mardi 8 juin.

Vous trouverez plus de précisions et les instructions de connexion ci-dessous. L'heure indiquée étant l'heure britannique, la conférence aura lieu à 20.00 h heure française. 

The Centre for Welsh Politics and Society (CWPS-WISERD) at Aberystwyth University present the Annual Welsh Politics and Society Lecture 2021: 

“Showing true colours: the changing politics of race equality in Wales”

Speaker: Professor Charlotte Williams OBE (Honorary Professor, Bangor University)

 

7pm – 8.00pm

Tuesday 8th June 2021

Online: Zoom 

 

The 2021 Annual Welsh Politics and Society Lecture is presented by Professor Charlotte Williams OBE, Honorary Professor at Bangor University and Chair of the recent Welsh Government Working Group on ‘Communities, Contributions and Cynefin: Black Asian Minority Ethnicities in the new curriculum'.

A number of recent events have sharpened the lens on racial inequality in Wales, generating a broad and sweeping response by the Welsh government and reverberating across public institutions. In several respects the contemporary approach of the Welsh government on race equality accords with the broader claims of distinctiveness in Welsh policy making, and the now familiar trope of the politics of divergence. But, as Charlotte Williams will argue, the contemporary conjuncture signifies much more for the nation.  The lecture considers some of the key twists and turns on race equality across the 20 years of devolution, casting a glance back to historical claims to tolerance, internationalism and inclusivity as part of a national sentiment and forward to a consideration of the tenacity of any distinctive drift away from wider UK politics of race. Navigating post-Brexit, post-election, post-Covid futures in this respect is not without its challenges, raising questions about sustained political will, resourcing, trust and public confidence and professional competence.  Charlotte Williams will seek to interrogate this contemporary scene, drawing attention to particularities of the Welsh context as well as generating broader points for comparison in equalities policy and practice. 

 

There will be an opportunity for questions and answers, which will be bilingual with live interpretation. 

The Zoom link will be emailed to you in the confirmation email and before the event.  

 

 

For further information on the event, please contact cwps@aber.ac.uk.

Good news for the UK

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/zero-how-the-uk-papers-covered-a-day-without-a-single-reported-covid-death 

Video chapter 17: the last Cook video

 You will find here the final video in the series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Y8mZN-U-k 

Indigenous Canadians : some history

 Interesting programme on French public radio.

https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/le-magazine-de-la-redaction/peuples-autochtones-du-canada-la-douloureuse-reconciliation?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1N0YcidVkre5WIlbOTUfsgf_ytqSVnXxlOkB1B55JVHkuJRk7kO7Zodp4#Echobox=1622316361 

Explosive day in British politics today

 See the front pages here:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/27/domshell-what-the-papers-say-about-dominic-cummings-attack-on-boris-johnson 

Le fromage à la Pentecôte

 It's Whit weekend. Here is one of the stranger local traditions in Gloucestershire : cheese rolling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvuktushEhY

M2 seminaire 1970s évaluation

J'ai bien reçu les dossiers des étudiant e s suivant e s:

Coquatrix (Women's sexuality, lesbianism, and the use of humour in Spare Rib )

Roudot (Women's Voice newspaper)

Longin (Gay News and the Gay Liberation movement)

Pontes (How  International Socialism Dealt with the British Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s)

Gerringa  (Black Power in the magazine Smash Hits)

Ferras (Marxists and the common market)

Ai-je oublié quelqu'un?

Epreuve admission agrégation anglais option civilisation James Cook

 Je peux confirmer (sur information venue du président du jury de l'agrégation externe) que pour les épreuves orales, si le sujet "tombe" sur Cook, les candidats auront à leur disposition pendant le temps de préparation, un exemplaire de l'édition Penguin des Journaux.

First Black members of parliament in the UK

 The first Black MP (1832)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart_(1789%E2%80%931860)

The second Black MP (1841)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Redhead_Yorke_(British_politician) 

James Cook and the history of science, part two

 Here is video chapter 16    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvHJOQYMha4 

Agrégation anglais BBC civilisation britannique post 52: a documentary about trans-sexuals.

 Back in the 20th century, people talked very little about transgender people, and if they did, they generally used the term "trans-sexual". It would be vain to look for much TV and Radio content showing support for transgender people in our period. Nevertheless, a BBC documentary in the 1970s (a student in one of my lectures was kind enough to point out)  played a pioneering role, even if there are elements of it which we would find rather backward today.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the 1979 documentary "A Change of Sex"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Change_of_Sex

You can find episode two on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnLy1O5fvCA&t=496s

And here is BBC news on the death of Julia a few years ago:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-46735571

Congrès de la Société des Anglicistes de l'enseignement supérieur

 Chaque année la SAES fait son congrès dans une ville différente, et des centaines de chercheurs et chercheuses s'y rassemblent. Il y a un programme extrêmement riche de présentations des recherches en cours. Puisque cela coûte de l'argent, il faut payer l'hébergement etc, on y trouve en général uniquement des personnes qui ont déjà un poste ou qui n'en sont pas loin.

Mais cette année le congrès a lieu en ligne et l'inscription est gratuite. Il faut créer un compte gratuit sur Sciencesconf mais c'est tout. N'hésitez donc pas!

https://congres2021.saesfrance.org/ 

Tuto: the first Reform Act

 As you know I am a great fan of YouTube for learning history. Some of you have just passed a distance learning exam concerning the Reform Bill of the early 1830s, which would eventually give rise to the Reform Act. Here are three videos you might like:

The 1832 Reform Act

Introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8DuXT5g0X4

What did it mean for the working class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwf-Qniwgr0

 What do historians say about it today ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXGplve95DM 

and here is an article in French:

http://droitpolitique.com/theme/29/1832-the-great-reform-act 

Cook's writing and Hawkesworth's book

Here is an MP3 recording of my class on the subject of Cook's journal as writing. It deals firstly with how Cook's writing changed, over the eleven years or so that he wrote his expedition journals, and secondly with what John Hawkesworth did with the journal of the first voyage, in the 1770s, to transform it into a successful book. Much of it is based on the research of Jean-Stéphane Massiani.

http://www.jcmullen.fr/finalcookhawkesworth.mp3

Maori tradition today - the Haka in the news

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/12/maori-party-co-leader-ejected-parliament-racism-row-haka

 

James Cook and the history of science , part one

 You will find here the fifteenth video talk on James Cook, which begins reflections on Cook and science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DNBmnRPfok

Breaking news: Cook dies in Haiti

You will find here video chapter 14, about the end of Cook's participation in the third expedition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulLhcAUWgWQ

There will shortly be more videos, abotu Cook and science.

History, Slavery, Commemoration in the UK today

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/09/remove-or-alter-your-slavery-monuments-churches-are-told 

From the press

 Coming to Britain in 1938

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/may/06/how-jewish-parents-used-guardian-ads-to-save-their-childrens-lives-podcast

Séminaire M2 les années 1970 - assignments

 I have received several assignments. If I have not yet received yours, please send me an email immediately and urgently, and we can fix a precise date.

Les voyages de James Cook: video chapitre 13

 You will find here events processes and questions from the Third Expedition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apXRfH4daQE

The Maori language

 https://www.tamakimaorivillage.co.nz/blog/maori-language-history 

James Cook and his third voyage

Here is video chapter twelve, which moves us onto the third expedition. There will be three chapters on this third expedition, followed by chapters which I am at present writing, about science and Cook's journeys.

video chapter 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjTYaufaiB8&

British Prime Minister under pressure

 After it was alleged that he said « No more lockdowns: let the bodies pile high in their thousands. »

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/27/boris-on-the-ropes-what-the-papers-say-about-mounting-pressure-on-pm 

Contronyms (from a colleague)

 

Agrégation civilisation britannique. The Expeditions of James Cook chapter 11

 Video number 11 can be found here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgYlhD3w0o0 

British history with a smile

 

British history with a smile.

 

If you are tempted by learning about key figures in British history in half hour talks by  a well-known comedian, mixing wild jokes and serious explanation, have a look at these talks by Mark Steel !

 

Oliver Cromwell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3uxXwad3D0&list=PLoTiF9w7DwMlG5_isaeui520rXcg1A-lc&index=5

 

Isaac Newton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX3PMOmVW-w&list=PLoTiF9w7DwMlG5_isaeui520rXcg1A-lc&index=1

 

Charles Darwin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5kDW8G7WSk&list=PLoTiF9w7DwMlG5_isaeui520rXcg1A-lc&index=4

 

Karl Marx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ddGtKZuSU&list=PLoTiF9w7DwMlG5_isaeui520rXcg1A-lc&index=13

Albert Einstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyd4IWc8f3Y&list=PLoTiF9w7DwMlG5_isaeui520rXcg1A-lc&index=16

The   Industrial revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIc9rhBCRvE&list=PLoTiF9w7DwMlG5_isaeui520rXcg1A-lc&index=9

Mary Shelley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvN9tDmjQ4Q&list=PLoTiF9w7DwMlG5_isaeui520rXcg1A-lc&index=24

 

Charlie Chaplin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDHlL8i67jY&list=PLoTiF9w7DwMlG5_isaeui520rXcg1A-lc&index=7

Sylvia Pankhurst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgNC5XyCIkA&list=PLoTiF9w7DwMlG5_isaeui520rXcg1A-lc&index=23

James Cook - his story after he died

 You will find here an MP3 recording of the live class I gave about what happened to Cook's story after he died: historiography and biography:

http://www.jcmullen.fr/0421historio.mp3

Video: the expeditions of James cook, chapter 10

 Taking us further into the second expedition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSKDPyXBbQo 

Prince Philip died

 You may have heard. French television put out several hours of coverage of his funeral yesterday, with many generalizations about what British people must be feeling.

Naturally, as in all such cases, there is a wide variety of feelings among British people. Among the more iconoclastic is this one, from left-wing comedian Mark Steel

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/prince-philip-death-legacy-bbc-coverage-b1831990.html

Maori language 250 years after Cook

 250 years after Cook: New Zealand and the Maori language 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/17/gentle-respectful-humble-how-non-maori-can-help-revitalise-te-reo 

BBC passages for commentary

 I think my students in Rouen would benefit from looking at this quite varied, short, collection of passages ( some of which you have seen before). If you have questions, send me an email.

Just click here

James Cook video lectures : chapter nine

 Chapter nine takes us into the second expedition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhCgmRl51Cw

The contradictions of the British and their royal family

 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/10/bbc-flooded-with-complaints-over-prince-philip-coverage 

James Cook video lectures: chapter 8

 You will find here chapter 8, which takes us up to the end of Cook's first expedition. The two other expeditions, however, will only get three chapters each, and these videos will be followed by more general considerations about Cook, the world that produced him and the world he produced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBmeOU8HtDM

Vous avez dit "décolonial"? 14 avril 17h30-19h

 Deux collègues de l'Université de Lille, Cédric Courtois (LEA / CECILLE EA 4074) et Fiona McCann (LLCE / CECILLE EA 4074) feront une présentation notamment à destination des étudiants sur la thématique suivante : 

"Au-delà des polémiques : qu'est-ce que le post-colonialisme ? Qu'est-ce qu'une approche décoloniale?"

Deux étudiants ayant suivi des cours sur ces thématiques interviendront rapidement. 
Après quoi nous aurons un échange avec les personnes présentes.

Je me permettrai en préambule de rappeler dans quel contexte politique s'inscrivent les polémiques récentes en France, où "post-colonialisme" et "décolonial(isme)" ont souvent été régulièrement entendus. Oliver Esteves

Voici le lien Zoom pour cet événement : https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/j/93042790478

The miners' strike and elitism

 In our class on the BBC I mentioned a poem which referred to the elite thinking that high culture was  not appropriate for working class people. But I said it might be Auden. In fact the poem is by Sassoon, and here it is :

The Case for the Miners

Something goes wrong with my synthetic brain
When I defend the Strikers and explain
My reasons for not blackguarding the Miners.
" What do you know? " exclaim my fellow-diners
(Peeling their plovers' eggs or lifting glasses
Of mellowed Chateau Rentier from the table),
" What do you know about the working classes?"

I strive to hold my own; but I'm unable
To state the case succinctly. Indistinctly
I mumble about World-Emancipation,
Standards of Living, Nationalization
Of Industry; until they get me tangled
In superficial details; goad me on
To unconvincing vagueness. When we've wrangled
From soup to savoury, my temper's gone.

"Why should a miner earn six pounds a week?
Leisure! They'd only spend it in a bar!
Standard of life! You'll never teach them Greek,
Or make them more contented than they are!"
That's how my port-flushed friends discuss the Strike.
And that's the reason why I shout and splutter.
And that's the reason why I'd almost like
To see them hawking matches in the gutter.

by Siegfried Sassoon

The song: I'm proud of the BBC

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvPampYQCU&t=11s  

The Expeditions of James Cook. Video chapter 7.

 You will find here the seventh chapter in the series. Cook and his crew arrive in New Holland, today known as Australia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ww6m46kEwg

Empires before Cook

You will find here an MP3 recording of my class on the imperial context which preceded Cook's expeditions.

Just click here

Diversité et inclusion en GB

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/02/historian-and-hundreds-of-academics-attack-no-10s-race-report?fbclid=IwAR10YT4mZXjLNi7FGPltar_R3vs6kyiLNZVSSY2sKRMqCtQB3ToIfuvvrHQ 

James Cook , Université de Rouen

 Although of course it will be an oral exam, if any one of you  wants to do, in writing, a practice question ("leçon"), I will happily comment on it. Here is the subject:

Friends and enemies in James Cook's journals and voyages

James cook video chapter six agrégation

 You will find here video chapter six, which covers episodes and questions arising from Cook's  first time in New Zealand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM-2nSfyQ78

Breaking news

 Breaking news 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/01/suez-2-ever-given-grounding-prompts-plan-for-canal-along-egypt-israel-border?fbclid=IwAR3NjPN3cYJvMpivL2Iv4YE3Wu-zp_VXukiXoRqdBn3lkAhmVwFbYX0H5Sk

Listening to a New Zealand accent

 

Will a DNA based diet help you fit your jeans? 3 min 23 seconds

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/healthy-or-hoax/story/2018784979/dna-will-a-dna-based-diet-help-you-fit-your-jeans

 

Tips for long distance parenting : 3 min 25 secs

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018787091/tips-for-long-distance-parenting

100 years of women at the BBC - free online conference

 If  you can make it, I recommend you attend (virtually).

100 Years of Women at the BBC

7 May 2021 1pm – 5.30pm (BST)

Co-sponsored by Critical Studies in Television and Edge Hill University Institute for Social Responsibility

 

Characterised from early in its life as ‘Auntie’, the BBC itself has been gendered female in the cultural consciousness. But this belies an historically male-dominated institution in which women have often had to fight for their rights to be heard. Recent controversies around equal pay, misogynistic abuse towards BBC personalities and a lack of female representation at the top of the corporation suggest that the institution has far to go in matters of gender equality.

 

The workshop will present fresh and innovative work-in-progress research on women at the BBC. Our presentations will explore the careers of some pioneering female workers at the BBC. The workshop aims to shed fresh light on influential figures such as Grace Wyndham Goldie and Jill Craigie; to draw attention to careers that are often overlooked – such as gramophone operators or production designers; to re-examine forgotten on-screen personalities; and to consider women’s contributions to prestigious BBC strands such as Play for Today.  We will also think about the tools we use to explore women’s television history, with a panel that focuses on the pros and cons of using interviews as a research method for historical studies.

 

Registration for the event is free. Please visit the event website: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/isr/100-years-of-women-at-the-bbc/

 

Today’

Britain , COVID and greed

 British comedian Mark Steel on recent news about COVID in the UK

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/covid-greed-pandemic-nhs-capitalism-b1822543.html 

James Cook. Video chapter five

This chapters covers first encounters in New Zealand, and questions arising.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRhi6uJT02o

James Cook agrégation post 65: Tupaia exhibition

Information about this recent museum exhibition here 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DzQKWuoFVw

BBC agrégation orals

 This recording of a class given elsewhere will be useful for my students in Rouen. It is material we have already covered in class, but which needs listening to more than once. 

http://www.jcmullen.fr/FINALTDBBCPARIS.MP3

Video chapter 4 James Cook and his Expeditions

You will find here on YouTube the fourth chapter  on "Les voyages de James Cook" It takes us up to where he leaves Tahiti with Tupaia, en route for New Zealand (unknowingly).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1UkZiJ6qvE

Recording

 If you missed the class on Wednesday at three, or if you need to hear it again, here is a recording

Just click here

listening agrégation

Here are the two pieces we listened to as practice for the agrégation interne compréhension orale. Of course we only listened to the first few minutes. I recommend that you listen to the whole programme. If yo understand less than 90%, listen three times.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/return-nyc-stage-performances/

https://www.wnyc.org/story/after-paris-global-approaches-to-climate-change-updated/ 

Feuille de présence

 

Les stagiaires de l'agrégation interne devraient m'envoyer (après le troisième et dernier cours) par mail, une feuille signée de ce format. Merci!!

TD BBC agrégation interne, feuille de présence
Date	Nom	Prénom	Signature

Video chapter 3: The Expeditions of James Cook

 You will find here another video chapter on Cook's first expedition.  these videos will first take a chronological approach, going through the three expeditions and commenting on significant, typical, or confusing episodes and their contexts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAAALWdETb4

BBC préparation des oraux

Congratulations on having survived the written exams!

We have a few classes on text commentay before the orals. I think the first one is on the 17th.

Here is a collection of documents. We certainly will not have time to look at them all, but read through them and look up the references etc which will help you.

The collection is here 

aide aux étudiants

 https://www.univ-rouen.fr/actualites/aider-et-accompagner-les-etudiants-de-lurn/

Aider et accompagner les étudiants à l'URN  

L’Université de Rouen Normandie se mobilise pour aider les étudiants en situation de fragilité, dans le contexte actuel de crise sanitaire. En complément de l’action de l’État et de l’établissement, les partenaires et les associations sont également sur le terrain pour accompagner au mieux les étudiantes et étudiants de l’Université.

Bon courage à tous les agrégatifs !

 ...

Methodologie de la recherche en civilisation . Cours de M Mullen.

The classes  are going to be hybrid, as follows.

This week : you are working at home. 

1. Look at these worksheets

htrtp://www.jcmullen.fr/0321methodo.pdf 

Answer as many of the questions as you can, taking notes.

Next week we will have a live class by zoom and we will look at the answers and discuss the problems.

2. Write in exactly 100 words an abstract for your research dissertation. Send it to me before next Monday  ( john. mullen at univ-rouen.fr ) Write it in English if you are in the English department: otherwise in French.

3. If you have any other questions, or anything to ask about methodology, ask by email.

NB cours en live mercredi prochain à 12h

James Cook - the century and the power that produced him

 You will find here

The MP3 recording of the second live class, which looked at the eighteenth century, the society and the power which produced Cook.

http://www.jcmullen.fr/cookamiens2venturyvg.mp3

The slides we looked at are here

http://www.jcmullen.fr/0221cookcentury.pps

I know most people are concentrating on other subjects in this last week before exams, and so i will wait a little before I put more Cook videos up on the Youtube Channel.

For the moment, the first two Cook videos are up there :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLLgJ4sKK4397db6PiYuRQ