Une présentation critique de mon livre sur le site Danactu : La chanson populaire en Grande-Bretagne pendant la Grande Guerre 1914-1918, de John Mullen - Le blog de Danactu-résistance

La chanson populaire en Grande-Bretagne pendant la Grande Guerre 1914-1918, de John Mullen - Le blog de Danactu-résistance

Margaret Thatcher's role in plan to dismantle welfare state revealed | Politics | The Guardian

Au Royaume-Uni, un certain nombre de documents officiels (par exemple les procès verbaux des réunions du gouvernement) restent secrets pour une période de 30 ans. A la fin de chaque année, les journalistes découvrent ces documents datant d'il y a 30 ans. Il y a trente ans, en 1982, Margaret Thatcher était premier ministre. Voici certaines des découvertes.

Margaret Thatcher's role in plan to dismantle welfare state revealed | Politics | The Guardian

Dr Lennox Honychurch delivers the 2012 Caribbean Awards Lecture at UWI, St Augustine on Nov 5.mp4 - YouTube

A lecture about the West Indies and decolonization.


Dr Lennox Honychurch delivers the 2012 Caribbean Awards Lecture at UWI, St Augustine on Nov 5.mp4 - YouTube

M1 Enseignement last lectures 2012

If you click here, you can listen again to lecture number 12 (I think) which is the second part of the subject "Liberty, empire and decolonization".
And if you click here you can listen again to lecture number 13 (I think) which is concerned mostly with questions of immigration and immigrants' rights.

LEA L1 civilisation britannique - cours sur l'Irlande 2

If you click here, you can listen again to the last lecture in the series, which was the second one about the Republic of Ireland.

L3 Britain since 1945. Powerpoint on British art since 1945

Click here for the powerpoint.

L3 Britain since 1945 - lectures on Cameron's times

You will find here the last two lectures in the series.

click here to listen to the first lecture on Debates and issues in Britain in 2012
click here to listen to the second lecture on Debates and issues in Britain in 2012

Do be sure to read some history books. And when it comes to exam time, whatever period the question deals with, make sure you make links to some events from other periods : the aim is to show what you know.

PM orders new minorities push to stave off Tory election crisis - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

La situation concernant les minorités ethniques et le racisme est en constante évolution au Royaume-Uni. Le premier ministre Conservateur s'inquiète du fait que son parti recueille très peu de voix chez les non-Blancs.

PM orders new minorities push to stave off Tory election crisis - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

2011 census data - key points | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Le nouveau recensement britannique est arrivé!

2011 census data - key points | UK news | guardian.co.uk

The Trussell Trust: the food bank keeping families from going hungry this Christmas | Society | The Observer

The Trussell Trust: the food bank keeping families from going hungry this Christmas | Society | The Observer

The IoS's Great Britons 2012 - News - People - The Independent

The Sunday newspaper IoS writes about the twelve people it believes are the greatest Britons of the year.

The IoS's Great Britons 2012 - News - People - The Independent

A Decade To Remember - The Sixties 1 - YouTube

This three part documentary on the sixties in Britain  is nostalgic, simplistic and superficial. However, it does allow you to see some of the images of events in the sixties which had some importance.


A Decade To Remember - The Sixties 1 - YouTube

M1 Enseignement épreuve commentaire

C'est définitif: après plusieurs changements dus à des oraux des uns et des autres,

l'épreuve de commentaire dirigé a été placée le mercredi 9 janvier à 8h en salle 211 i1.

John Mullen

BBC News - Stonehenge crowds gather to mark winter solstice

BBC News - Stonehenge crowds gather to mark winter solstice

Radio programmes about history BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - In Our Time Archive: History

In particular CAPES students will benefit from choosing a few of these radio programmes to listen to. you can download them in MP3 format and listen to them in the metro! There are over a hundred subjects to choose from! Just click on the link

BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - In Our Time Archive: History

Righting an old Irish wrong | Andy McSmith | Independent McSmith Blogs

Righting an old Irish wrong | Andy McSmith | Independent McSmith Blogs

British Bill of Rights review deadlock likely to mean little progress on legislation before next general election - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

British Bill of Rights review deadlock likely to mean little progress on legislation before next general election - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

L1 Bloc 2 administrative information

If you have not yet handed in your homework, the details are here 
the brochure de textes is on Eprel here.
and you can hand it in in my "casier" on the first floor in the "salle des professeurs" until Thursday.
JM

Trade unions should fill gap in public life, says departing TUC chief | Politics | The Guardian

Trade unions should fill gap in public life, says departing TUC chief | Politics | The Guardian

The Scarman report - feedback on the text commentary

The text commentary on the Scarman report, given by Slimane

It’s obvious that you did a lot of work on this document. You correctly explained the reasons for the riots (*not*, as is often said, simply « race riots »). You explained the police reaction with Swamp 81 and so on. You gave examples and statistic s- for example about housing shortages. And you pointed out some of the longer term results of the Scarman Report in terms, among other things, of police recruitment.  Your English was fluent and interested.

You needed to centre more around the document, and keep coming back to it. You should never leave the document for more than two paragraphs.  Some of the details you gave were not necessary : the date of birth and death of Lord Scarman do not help us understand this document and so should be omitted.

It would have been good to give some of the longer histories within which the Scarma report resides. It is one key moment in the history of disaffection among Black and other  youth. You could have mentioned others – a comparison with the riots of 2011 would have been useful, or a reference to the Stephen Lawrence scandal which in the 1990s led to another report about the police and race relations which was far more scathing.

There wre quite a lot of words which were not correctly pronounced, including the following : law, stabbed, riots, injured, inquiry, interesting.

And you have picked up the strange habit of saying « nineteen sixty first » instead of « nineteen sixty one » !