Course Details in 2025/26 Session

Module Title	LH Advanced Option: Capital Lives: Experiencing the City in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
School	History and Cultures
Department	History
Module Code	09 38812
Module Lead	Dr Kate Smith
Level	Honours Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 1
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-10 hours Seminar-20 hours Guided independent study-170 hours Total: 200 hours
Exclusions
Description	In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, as the population expanded and people became more mobile, cities grew. In this period, increasing numbers of people came to engage with and inhabit city life. This module seeks to explore the social, cultural and sensory aspects of urban living in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. It primarily asks: how did people experience these ever-changing urban environments? Using London as a case study, the module explores five key sensory experiences: seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. By looking to these different sense, the module will encourage students to consider the nature of urban life and the ways in which it changed in social and cultural terms over the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: analyse and explain key events and historical processes relevant to the subject under scrutiny, analyse and explain reasons for and implications of these events and processes (including analysis of primary evidence where appropriate) compare and evaluate the main scholarly views on the subject under investigation, critically evaluate the historiographical context and trends of the subject under exploration work with an appropriate degree of learner independence to explain and analyse the material under scrutiny summarise, analyse and evaluate the subject material clearly and effectively in writing, synthesise and evaluate themes across a wide range of diverse material
Assessment
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: S1 = 1 x 3,000 word essay (100%)
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