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Module Title
LM Option: Feeling Politics in 20th Century Britain: Emotions and Politics in Britain From the Stiff Upper Lip to π.
School
History and Cultures
Department
History
Module Code
09 39788
Module Lead
Chris Moores
Level
Masters Level
Credits
20
Semester
Semester 1
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions
None
Exclusions
Description
This module introduces you to a relatively new area of twentieth century British political history: the emotions. The module aims to understand why historians have started to see the emotions as a crucial way of understanding past politics and what this means for our understanding of both politics and emotions. The module will assess how the emotional experience of two world wars shaped British political settlements, the connections between politics and masculinity in political parties, the emotional relationships embedded in the culture of empire and postcolonial Britain, the ways in which the state began to legislate to limit βhateβ, how new social movements mobilized via new political languages in the later twentieth century, and seeks to help us understand how emotional wellbeing became a political category, the implications of such a development and what it means to live in the age of the Emoji π΅βπ«
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
