This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
20 hours of seminars in the MT. 20 hours of seminars in the LT. 2 hours of help sessions in the ST. Students will be expected to read essential primary and secondary material for each weekly class, to deliver presentations, and to participate in seminar discussions.There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent terms.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the MT and 1 essay and 1 other piece of coursework in the LT. Formative assessment is by one essay for submission in week 5 of the MT, and one essay for submission in week 5 of the LT (each essay should be a maxmium of 2000 words and be drawn from a list supplied at the start of the course).? One gobbet exercise will also be conducted in the LT as a form of revision for the final examination.
Paul W. Doerr, British Foreign Policy, 1919 -1939 (1998)David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled: Britain and World Power in the 20th Century, 2nd ed (2000)C. J. Bartlett, The Long Retreat: A Short History of British Defence Policy, 1945-70 (1972)Alan Bullock, Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945-1951 (1983)Anne Deighton (ed), Britain and the First Cold War (1991)Robert Holland, The Pursuit of Greatness: Britain and the World Role, 1900-1970 (1991)Ronald R. Hyam, Britain?s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonization, 1918-1968 (2007)Paul Kennedy, Background Influences on British External Policy, 1865-1980 (1981)??R. A. C. Parker, Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War (1993)Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War Against Japan, 1941-1945 (1978)John W. Young, Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century (1997)
Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period. The summative assessment consists of a three hour examination paper which involves each candidate writing two essays selected from a list of questions, and two comments on a selection of extracts from primary sources.