On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of the discipline of history.
2. Evaluate debates amongst historians.
3. Analyse historical documents and the conduct of original primary-source based historical research using digital resources.
4. Utilise skills of analysis, synthesis and fluid expression in the oral and written presentation of historical evidence or argument.
5. Utilise skills at video/oral presentation of project work and peer assessment.
6. Demonstrate an awareness of the forces - social, economic, cultural, political, geographical and religious - responsible for British society in the period examined.
7. Assess the influence of history on contemporary issues, attitudes and places.

Topics covered in lectures and tutorials will include:
- Polite society
- Industrialisation and urbanisation
- Commercialisation and Consumer culture
- Crime and Punishment
- sex and gender
- religion
- politics and The public sphere
- War, militarisation and empire
- Radicalism and Working class protest
Most topics will be delivered in a series of lecture pods of about 20 minutes each. Tutorials will serve as research skills workshops, instructing students in the conduct and methodologies of historical research. Emphasis will be laid on the use of key on-line resources, notably ECCO (Eighteenth-Century Collections Online); the Burney collection of early English newspapers; The Old Bailey on line. On line research training materials will also be provided.