Postgraduate Course: War and Identities in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland (PGHC11339)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This MSc option adopts a social and cultural perspective on the impact of war on British and Irish society, taking a detailed look at the interplay between national, ethnic, class and gender identities at times of conflict. It focuses primarily on the twentieth century. |
| Course description |
Particular attention is paid to the connections between national identities and the memory of war: the ways in which different wars have been narrated, remembered and commemorated. The course also adopts an inter-disciplinary approach drawing upon oral sources, film, literature, art and photography.
Content note: The study of History inevitably involves the study of difficult topics that we encourage students to approach in a respectful, scholarly, and sensitive manner. Nevertheless, we remain conscious that some students may wish to prepare themselves for the discussion of difficult topics. In particular, the course organiser has outlined that the following topics may be discussed in this course, whether in class or through required or recommended primary and secondary sources: sexual violence, racial violence and hostility, wartime prejudices, discriminatory attitudes. While this list indicates sensitive topics students are likely to encounter, it is not exhaustive because course organisers cannot entirely predict the directions discussions may take in tutorials or seminars, or through the wider reading that students may conduct for the course.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a detailed and critical command of the body of knowledge concerning the impact of war on society and its role in the social and cultural history of twentieth century Britain and/or Ireland
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the significant historiographical trends which have emerged addressing war, memory and the construction of national identities
- Develop and sustain original scholarly arguments in oral and written form by independently formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence considered in the course
- Demonstrate originality and independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers; and a considerable degree of autonomy
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Reading List
M. Cragoe and C. Williams (eds), Wales and War: Society, Politics and Religion in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), Introduction, pp. 1-14
Martin Francis '"The domestication of the male" Recent research on nineteenth and twentieth-century British masculinity' Historical Journal, 45, 3 (2002), pp. 637- 652
N. Hayes and J. Hill (eds), 'Millions Like Us?' British Culture in the Second World War (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999)
Keith Jeffery, Ireland and the Great War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
B. Korte and R. Schneider (eds) War and the Cultural Construction of Identities in Britain (Amsterdam: Rodopi BV, 2002)
K. Kumar, The Making of English National Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
K Lunn, Reconsidering 'Britishness': The Construction and Significance of National Identity in Twentieth-Century Britain in B Jenkins and S Sofos (eds) Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe (London: Routledge 1996), pp. 83- 100
Panikos Panayi, The enemy in our midst: Germans in Britain during the First World War (1991).
K. Robbins, Great Britain. Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness (Harlow: Addison Wesley, 1998)
A. D. Smith National Identity (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1991)
Penny Summerfield, Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008
P. Ward, Britishness Since 1870 (London: Routledge, 2004)
R. Weight, Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000 (London, Macmillan, 2002). |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | War Identities 20th Century Britain Ireland |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Wendy Ugolini
Tel: (0131 6)50 3766
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Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
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