Module Identifier HYM7030  
Module Title CONTINUITY & CHANGE: BRITISH POLITICAL HISTORY 1832-1997  
Academic Year 2003/2004  
Co-ordinator Professor William D Rubinstein  
Semester Semester 2  
Course delivery Seminars / Tutorials   15 Hours 6 x 2 hour seminars and 3 hours of tutorials  

Brief description

The module will examine many of the major debates which have arisen among political historians about modern British political history, 1832 – 1997. The module will also examine the recent historical literature about a number of major turning-points and trends in modern British political history.

Aims

To give MA students in the Modern British History pathway a sophisticated knowledge of major historiographical issues in modern British political history, 1832 – 1997.

Content

The effects of the Great Reform Act of 1832
The Liberal Unionist Split of 1886
The reasons for the rise of the Labour Party c1918-24
Why Labour triumphed in 1945
Reasons for the long Tory hegemony in the twentieth century.

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 7