British History Abroad: British Rulers & British Ruled since 1700
2007 Syllabus/Itinerary (see also final 2006 itinerary)
- Graduate students enrolled in His 5970 must complete work for 3970 plus research and presentation.
- pre-trip meetings at EIU (April)
- discussion of trip; discussion of assignments
- Reader (E-Reserves, see Readings)
- Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, 1685 - c. 1712 [Cambridge, Peterborough, Burghley House, Grantham, Lincoln, and Chatsworth]
- Bruce Feiler, Looking for Class: Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge (1993), "Coming Up" & "Matriculating"
- Alexis de Tocqueville, "Journeys to England" (1833, 1835)
- "Doing the Lambeth Walk," from Britain by Mass-Observation (1939)
- John Lydon, Rotten (1994) [his early years]
- other readings as special topics (for presenters and graduate students)
- Sean Purchase, Key Concepts in Victorian Literature (2006), "Class" & "The Social-problem Novel"
- James Walvin, Victorian Values (1987), "Lamenting of Things Past" & "All Sorts and Conditions"
- Barry J. Faulk, Music Hall & Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (2004), "Introduction"
- Andrew Thorpe, Britain in the 1930s: The Deceptive Decade (1992), "A Class-Ridden Society?"
- view Amazing Grace
- pre-trip blog assignments (due in May):
- first paragraph answering question on blog on The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain, by David Cannadine, chapter 1
- second paragraph answering question on blog on The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain, chapter 2
- third paragraph answering question on blog on Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
- works assigned
to be purchased (see Readings)
- David Cannadine, The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
- Jane Austen, Persuasion
- Charles Dickens, Hard Times (to be provided at Harlaxton)
- George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (to be provided at Harlaxton)
- Program is only five weeks, but course credit is 6 c.h., so I strongly advise some reading of as much of this work as possible before travel (Cannadine, and other works must be purchased in advance, but the Reader will be provide and a couple of the works will be made available to you when we arrive at Harlaxton)
- week 1 (what is social class now?; what was it circa 1700?; who ruled?; who was ruled?)
- S 3 June
- M 4 June
- A C Williams coach collect from Heathrow Airport together to Harlaxton (with English group)*
- Orientation
- T 5 June
- Class: 9 am-12 noon (Introduction to British History; Introduction to Class; Mapping)
- Class: 2 pm-3 (Cannadine/Defoe)
- 7.00 pm guided house tour of Harlaxton Manor - meet in Schroder Lounge (with English group)*
- W 6 June
- Class: 9 am-12 noon (Cannadine, selections from Fiennes)
- Th 7 June
- F-S 8, 9, 10 June
- Student independent travel
- Return to Harlaxton for evening meal Sun
- Weekly blog question-response due Sun
- week 2 (18th-century England: the social, cultural, political, and economic importance of the landed elite's country house; the problem of "the gentleman-tradesman"; riots as a political voice of the poor)
- M 11 June
- Class: 9 am-12 noon (Defoe)
- Class: 2-4.30 pm (Fiennes, Feiler)
- T 12 June
- W 13 June
- Class: 9.00 am-12 noon (Defoe)
- 12:45 pm, coach to Lincoln: Cathedral, Castle (optional), market center (with English Group)*
- Th 14 June
- 8 am [packed lunch], mini-bus visit to 10:15 am tour of Castle Rising (ruined castle and borough returning 2 MPs until 1832), and 1:30 tour of Houghton Hall (large estate of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Prime Minister)
- F-S 15, 16, 17 June
- (optional trip to Dublin), leave 4 am, F 15 June (6:30 flight from EMA)
- 16 June in Dublin for Bloomsday; return S 16 June (21:45 flight from DUB)
- Weekly blog question-response due Mon
- week 3 (18th- & 19th-century Britain: the role of education and the church in social class; the role of class in the history of education, culture, and sport)
- M 18 June
- Class: 9 am-12 noon (Austen)
- Class: 2-4:30 pm (Defoe, Austen)
- T-W 19-20 June
- Th 21 June
- Class: 9 am-12 noon (Cannadine)
- F-S 22, 23, 24 June
- student study, independent travel
- Return to Harlaxton for evening meal Sun
- Weekly blog question-response due Sun
- week 4 (19th-century Britain: the rise of the middle class; the role of middle class values in history; the industrial rich and the industrial poor; the industrial revolution)
- M 25 June
- Class: 9 am-12 noon (Cannadine, Dickens)
- T 26 June
- 7 am, early breakfast
- 7:30 am [packed lunch], mini-bus to Ironbridge Gorge, and the colliery, factory and other museums of
- Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, The Darby Furnace, the Darby Houses
- Hay Inclined Plane near Jackfield Bridge
- W 27 June
- Class: 9 am-12 noon (Cannadine, Dickens)
- possible visit to Belton House, Grantham
- Th 28 June
- Class: 9 am-12 noon (Tocqueville, Purchase)
- Class: 2 pm-4.30 (Orwell)
- F 29 June
- 9 am, coach to London
- Setup/orientation/shopping for rooms in Queen Mary College, Mile End (main campus)
- week 5 (19th-20th Century London: Imperial metropolis, West End-East End; East End London [Brick Lane, Petticoat Lane and the other East End markets], West End London [from Chelsea, to St. James's and its park near Westminster, to Hampstead]; mixing races, genders, and classes in London streets; the rise and decline of class in 20th-century London)
- S 30 June
- Trips to markets (Brick Lane, Petticoat Lane)
- Su 1 July
- Trips to market (Portobello Road)
- Weekly blog question-response due Sun
- M 2 July
- Class: 11 am-12:30 (Orwell, "Lambeth Walk"), Dr. Peter Catterall, Queen Mary College, University of London
- "Assignments": groups to explore/find specific markers and areas in London
- T 3 July
- 11 am, vist and tour of Houses of Parliament with MP
- 2 pm-4, tour of West End and the Courts (from Leicester “House,” to the old Royal Stables, to Pall Mall, to St. James Palace, to Buckingham Palace to St. James Gardens, to Whitehall/Downing Street)
- 6:30 pm,
Sir Michael Barber (former senior civil servant), "Blair and Public Service Reform Delivery" (Queen Mary College, public lecture, optional)
- W 4 July
- Class: 9 am-12 noon (Berg, Rotten)
- Tour of South Kensington/Exhibition Road area (especially British Galleries of V & A British Galleries, with guest lecturer)
- Tour of City of London (especially Museum of London, guest lecturer for both: Dr. Angela McShane Jones, Oxford Brookes University)
- Th 5 July
- Tour of River Thames, Greenwich, and East End (boat trip down Thames from Embankment to Greenwich, Greenwich Observatory, then back via light railway, and London Transport through East End, walk through Smithfield, etc.)
- F 6 July
- Return to USA, flight back to "sweet, home Chicago" (with English group)*
- post-trip
*trips that will be in conjunction with the Literary Masterworks program @ Harlaxton (led by Dr. David Raybin, EIU English Dept.)
Grading rubric:
- Weekly blog and journal (20%)
- Participation (20%)
- Final Exam, mapping, and quizzes (30%)
- Final Paper and presentation (30%)
last updated on
June 1, 2007
