W Jan 7 Introduction

F Jan 9 England after 1688

• Required Reading: Morgan 6-7
• Recommended Web Sites:
• Bill of Rights
• Church of England
• Whigs
• Tories
• Battle of the Boyne

M Jan 12 Monarchy and Parliament Transformed

• Required Reading: Morgan 7
• Recommended Web Site:
  • Jacobites
  • Swift, A Modest Proposal

W Jan 14 Politics and Government in the Age of Walpole

• Required Reading: Morgan 7
• Recommended Web Site:
• South Sea Bubble

F Jan 16 The Evangelical Revival: Discussion

• Required Reading: Morgan 7, Docpac #1
• Recommended Web Sites:
• Religion in Victorian England
• John Wesley
• Wesley sermon

M Jan 19 Forging the Empire

• Required Reading: Morgan 7
• Recommended Web Sites:
• Capture of Quebec
• Culloden
• Battle of Blenheim
• Battle of Plassey
• East India Company

W Jan 21 Eighteenth Century Society

• Required Reading: Morgan 7
• Recommended Web Sites:
• Robinson Crusoe,browse
• Tom Jones,browse
• Vicar of Wakefield, browse
• Blenheim Palace
• Beer Street
• Gin Lane
• Sheffield's water wheels

F Jan 23 Society and Popular Politics:Discussion

• Required Reading: Thompson, Morgan 7

S Jan 25 Royal Soap

• Required Viewing: The Madness of King George

M Jan 26 The Age of George III and Pitt

• Required Reading: Morgan 7
• Recommended Web Sites:
• Lord North
• Black Hole of Calcutta
• Warren Hastings
• American Revolution

W Jan 28 Revolutions

• Required Reading: Morgan 8
• Recommended Web Sites:
• Sheffield's Water Wheels
• Proclamation of Rebellion
• Songs of 1798
• Battle of Cape St. Vincent

F Jan 30 The Invention of Britishness: Discussion

• Required Reading: Colley, Morgan 8

M Feb 2 England in 1815

• Required Reading: Morgan 8
• Recommended Web Sites:
• Jeremy Bentham
• William Blake
• William Blake poetry
• Shelley, 1819

W Feb 4 Early Nineteenth Century England

• Required Reading: Morgan 8
• Recommended Web Site:
• Abolition movement
• Luddites
• Cato Street Conspiracy

F Feb 6 First Examination

M Feb 9 WINTER RECESS: NO CLASS