Understanding the Modern World: The Romans to the Information Society
This course is being offered to members of the University of the Third Age in Worthing. Please feel free to use the material on your own courses. I can also supply you with the primary sources that go with the sessions.
1. Introduction: What is History?
3. The Dark Ages and Alfred the Great
5. William the Conqueror and the Feudal System
6. The Struggle for Power: The Sons of William the Conqueror
7. The Monarchy, the Church and the Barons
8. The Economic Consequences of the Black Death
9. The Peasant's Revolt and the end of Feudalism
10. The Tudors and Religious Reforms
12. Mary and Elizabeth: Catholics and Protestants
14. The Commonwealth and Restoration
15. The Birth of Capitalism: Richard Arkwright and Robert Owen
16. James Watt and Steam Power
17. Transport and the Industrial Revolution
20. Marxism and the 19th Century
21. Life in 19th Century Britain
22. Political Parties in the 19th Century
23. The Struggle for Women's Rights: 1500-1870
24. Emancipation of Women: 1870-1928
25. The Growth of Liberalism: 1880-1910
26. Political Crisis in Britain: 1910-1914
27. Outbreak of the First World War
28. First World War: 1914-1916
30. Russia in Revolution: 1890-1918
31. The United States and the First World War
32. The First World War Peace Settlement
35. The Birth of Modern Capitalism
36. John Maynard Keynes and the Wall Street Crash
37. The Great Depression in Britain
38. Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt
39. The New Deal
40. Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky
43. Life in Nazi Germany: 1933-1939
44. Hitler and the Night of the Long Knives
45. Fascism in Britain in the 1930s
48. British Foreign Policy: 1919-1939
49. Winston Churchill: 1874-1906
50. Winston Churchill: 1906-1916
51. Winston Churchill: 1916-1926
52. Winston Churchill: 1927-1939
55. Stanley Baldwin
57. Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler
59. Finland, Norway and Dunkirk
60. Operation Sea Lion and the Battle of Britain
61. The Blitz: September 1940 - May 1941
62. Bomb Disposal Unit, Air Raid Wardens and the British Media
63. Nazi Germany Invades the Soviet Union
64. The British Security Co-Ordination and Pearl Harbor
65. War in the Far East: 1941-1942
66. Adolf Hitler and Anti-Semitism
68. German Resistance to Adolf Hitler: Politics and Sport
69. German Resistance to Adolf Hitler: Artists
70. German Resistance to Adolf Hitler: Novelists and Playwrights
