Module Information
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 2 hour seminars |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | Essay 2,500/3,000 word essay | 50% |
Semester Assessment | Essay 1 2,500/3,000 word essay | 50% |
Supplementary Assessment | Essay 2 2,500/3,000 word essay | 50% |
Supplementary Assessment | Essay 1 2,500/3,000 word essay | 50% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Identify the primary historical sources used by historians in reconstructing the history of class and community in this period
Locate examples of such evidence and explain the reasons for archival survival
Demonstrate an understanding of the relevant historiography, its evolution and the key problems currently addressed by historians in this field
Discuss with others the interpretative problems and prospects associated with this topic, including definition of class and community
Illustrate, analyse and evaluate the surviving evidence and the associated historiography in an extended written discussion
Brief description
The module also examines strands in the historiography that challenge the accepted views of ‘community’ as a way of mobilising human resources as a defence against hostile or oppressive forces. For example, it asks to what extent the history of women in working-class communities provides a different and less celebratory view of community life. Moreover, it also asks whether ‘community’ could be mobilised against ‘outsiders’, particularly immigrants and those from different ethnic backgrounds. To what extent does this exclusionary aspect to social life challenge and complicate positive perceptions of community and class?
Content
1. Introduction
2. Social consensus, c.1848-1870
3. Crime, social protest and communal justice
4. Space and place: urban society
5. Tensions of class and community in rural society, 1880-1914
6. Class conflict in the south Wales coalfield, 1898-1914
7. Class, ethnic conflict and community in Wales, c.1826-1914
8. Gender, community and the interwar depression, c.1925-39
9. Class and community in the 1930s
10. Conclusions
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7