Sylabus
* 1.
The Origins :Pre-History to the Norman Conquest Part 1: The Celts. The Romans. Saxon Invasion .Government and Society.
* 2.
Origins: Pre-History to the Norman Conquest Part 2: Christianity Church and State, Vikings. Internal Kingdoms
* 3.
The Norman Dynasties and the Plantagenets( part 1):
Feudalism, Dynasty, Magna Carta
* 4.
The Norman Dynasties to the Plantagenets (part 2)
Church and State, Parliament and Justice, Subduing the Celts
* 5.
The Late Middle Ages: War with Scotland and France, The Age of Chivalry, The Century of Plague, Heresy and Orthodoxy, Crisis of Kingship, Wars of the Roses
* 6.
The Tudors: Birth of the Nation State, The Reformation, Foreign Policy, Relations within Britain, Elizabeth Ist, Mary Queen of Scots and the Scottish Reformation and James I/VI
* 7.
Parliament versus Crown, The Stuarts, Cromwell and the Republic, The Civil War
* 8.
Restoration , Exile and The Glorious Revolution,
* 9.
The Hannoverians, Union and Scottish Dissent: Politics and Finance, Revolutions: American and French
* 10.
Romanticism and Revolution, Imperial Expansion
* 11.
The Napoleonic War, Monarchy, Empire and Victoria, Industrialism and Growth
* 12.
Ist world war, Labour Party, Woman's rights, Ireland, Depression, The 20th Century in Britain. The Second World War, The Welfare State, Loss of Empire, Modern Issues: Internal Colonialism-Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. New Politics,the special relationship between Britain and the USA. The future for the UK.
Anotace
Série přednášek začíná převzetím nadvlády nad jižní Británií císařem Claudiem a končí převzetím moci nad Labour Party Tony Blairem. Kurs postupuje chronologicky a soustřeďuje se na řadu témat, přičemž dává do vztahu politický a konstitucionální vývoj se základními změnami v kultuře a životním stylu.