This module (and its co-requisite Empire comes home: India in the making of Britain (Masters): B) will allow students to study a historical theme or area in great depth, under the guidance of an individual member of staff drawing on both secondary sources (i.e. books and articles) and primary sources (documents, newspapers etc), both published and unpublished. The module will allow students to study an aspect of history in detail and gain a fuller understanding of how different types of source material inform the historical process.
The colonial project attracted the attention, energy and imagination of generations of Britons who invested newer meanings into these changing ideas of empire. This module will engage with representations of the subcontinent in metropolitan culture – covering the eighteenth century stage, the Victorian literary imagination and, with the coming of mass culture in the twentieth century, popular cultural representations in broadcast television and cinema.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
analyse and critically appraise key events and historical processes relevant to the subject under scrutiny
analyse and critically evaluate a wide range of relevant primary source material
critically evaluate the historiographical context and trends of the subject under exploration.
Summarise, synthesise and evaluate the subject material in a sophisticated written form
