British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries
Survey British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, from Romanticism and realism to modernism, war writing, empire, and social change.
Survey British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, from Romanticism and realism to modernism, war writing, empire, and social change.
Explore American westward expansion, from the Louisiana Purchase and Oregon Trail to the Mexican War, railroads and Indigenous dispossession.
Follow the American founding from colonial resistance and independence to the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution and debates over liberty.
Explore the Dutch invasion of 1688, James II’s fall, the Bill of Rights, Scotland’s Claim of Right and the Williamite War in Ireland.
Post-war Britain is characterised by Butskellism, a hybrid word formed from the Conservative (Butler) and Labour (Gaitskell) Chancellors of the Exchequer.