for Historians
A MULTIMEDIA CD-ROM
INCORPORATING
Women's History
The Coming of Mass Politics
Industrial Revolution and Post-Industrialisation
The Pre-Modern Period
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INCORPORATING
Women's History
The Coming of Mass Politics
Industrial Revolution and Post-Industrialisation
The Pre-Modern Period
| An Introduction to the History Courseware Consortium CD-ROM |
The lecture introduces students to historical issues, evidence and interpretation. In addition to presenting historical facts, a variety of interpretations of a topic are also offered.
Flexibility
All tutorials may be customised to meet the needs of local users.
Designed to be as open-ended as possible the tutorials provide various pathways through the material. They allow students to easily access material in more depth than with the traditional textbook.
The tutorials make available a range of sources such as personal letters which have hitherto been accessible to and used only by professional historians .
They can be used for individual or team assignments and create opportunities for students to acquire and practise additional skills such as teamwork, leadership and decision making.
Advantages of using the tutorials
Included with each CD-ROM are the following documents.
Technical Requirements
The CD-ROM will run on any PC computer which has a hard disk, CD drive and multimedia capability. Technical support is available from the Consortium.
Staff Training Workshops
Both introductory and advanced workshops on the use , and customisation of tutorials are available. For more information please contact us. (See back panel for details)
| "... a major strength of the package is the integration of tables, graphs, pictures and both the originals and transcripts of primary sources. The video-clips add life and "entertainment value" - the latter an important part of learning..." Prof. R.A Houston |
| Women's History |
WOMEN'S HISTORY: FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO MAJOR THEMES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Women and War in Twentieth Century Britain
Women, Cities and Social Change 1840-1940
Feminism and Women's Politics 1870-1939
ENFRANCHISING WOMEN: THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN EUROPE 1789-1945
The Development of Women's Movements 1789-1914
Opposition to Women's Suffrage
The Coming of Women's Suffrage 1914-1945
MASS POLITICS AND THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848
Prof. J. Breuilly
Students may investigate the different ways in which popular political participation was a part of the politics of states before 1848, its contribution to political change in that year, and the extent and direction of popular political action thereafter. Comparisons between different European countries are made.
Dr R.J. Aldous and Dr S.J. Ball
This tutorial examines the division of Europe between 1944 and 1949 into two blocks with radically different politico-economic organisations. Particular emphasis is placed on how this was brought about by the policy-making of the 'Big Three', Britain, USA and Russia. Government papers, memoirs, diaries, newspapers, private papers and interviews are combined with authorial analysis, encouraging students to develop a multi-textual approach. Worksheets encourage an investigation of the document collections at various levels of complexity. It is designed to allow maximum flexibility of use by staff and students.
Dr K. Holden, Prof. P. Summerfield, Dr H. Meller, Dr J. Rendall, Dr J. Hannam
This tutorial consists of five substantive units including:
A discussion of the partial achievement of votes for women in 1918, expansion in the number of women in the work force, rates of pay for women doing "men's work", exploration of occasions when women took matters into their own hands and went on strike, the benefits and problems associated with the Serviceman's wife allowance and the extent to which nursery care was provided for the children of women war workers.
In the period 1840-1940, the process of urbanisation transformed the lives of the majority of British people. The role that women played in this transformation is examined here.
The history of women and politics from 1870-1939 is investigated here. The emphasis is on the history of organised women's movements, in particular the suffrage campaign.
Prof. J. McMillan
In most European states, the advent of 'universal' suffrage did not necessarily imply female suffrage and the realisation of votes for women was a controversial and protracted issue. Through this tutorial students are made more aware of the extent to which gender was a crucial factor in the politics of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. This tutorial consists of three main units:
Looks at the emergence and development of women's movements of different types and political affiliations demanding votes for women in 19c Europe.
Explores the resistance which feminist demands encountered and sheds much new light on the under-explored subjects of misogyny, anti-feminism and anti-suffragism.
Examines the circumstances in which women finally got the vote. This tutorial ranges across the whole of Europe between the time of the French Revolution and the end of the Second World War. It allows students to study a major but neglected theme of European history in the depth that it deserves.
The Coming of Mass Politics
The central essay of this tutorial is divided into four sections:
Students' preparation for a series of exercises is enhanced by readings from historians, maps, images, statistical data and chronologies. Succeeding their personal response, a 'specimen answer' stimulates discussion and progress through the tutorial. The structure of this package allows scholars to undertake their chosen or recommended path of study.
THE GREAT POWERS AND THE DIVISION OF EUROPE, 1944-1949
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; THE PEOPLE ENTER POLITICS
Prof. W. Doyle
Maps, pictures, cartoons, a full glossary of terms and an ample bibliography accompany this overview of the Revolution. The growth of popular expectations between 1787 and 1789 and the extent to which the practice of popular politics became identified with the use of terror are the key issues addressed. It is divided into four sections:
Prologue
The underlying problems of the Ancien Régime and opposition, belated attempts at reform preceding the Revolution.
The Estates General – Establishing Representative Government
The 1789 meeting of the Estates General, the emergence of the National Assembly, descent into disorder and the storming of the Bastille, the significance of the cahiers de doléances as a historical source.
The Storming of the Bastille - The People Emerge
The popular mobilisation against a royal coup, the role of women in the revolution, the king's return to Paris, the principles of the new National Assembly, the subsequent economic crisis.
Bread and Terror – The Spectre of Popular Government
Post-1789 and the advent of the Sans-Culotte.
| Industrial Revolution and Post-industrialisation |
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH TOWN
Dr T. Hitchcock and Dr R. Shoemaker
Some of the most valuable evidence for change in the eighteenth century comes from towns. This tutorial considers the causes and consequences of English urban growth but also investigates the wider economic and social transformations that accompanied the early stages of industrialisation.
Topics covered include:
URBANISATION IN BRITAIN
1780-1914
Prof. R. J. Morris, Dr. R. Rodger, Dr H. Meller and Dr J. Jenkinson.
This tutorial traces the course and nature of urban development in Britain.
Topics covered include:
Urban Theory
This exploration of the nature of urban growth and reactions to it encourages students to examine and compare contrasting views as they review the empirical evidence.
The Built Environment
Three sections - 'The Urban Landscape', 'Controlling the Built Environment' and 'Market Forces and The Built Environment' - address the development of towns and cities physical fabric. Images, contemporary reports and datasets illustrate the processes and tensions, which produced slums and suburbs, terraces and tenements, public parks and private gardens.
The Culture of Cities: Cultural Change and Social Response
This element explores the changing relationship between local and central government, the perception of cities as a social and moral challenge to religious and public organisations, the development of education and changes in leisure and town planning.
Literary Responses to Urbanisation
Extracts from novels, biographies and social surveys offer a contemporary literary insight into the Victorian City. Sources which in turn investigate and highlight the varying perceptions of the process of urbanisation.
The Walking Tour
Photographs, maps and commentary form the backdrop for a "walking tour" of Edinburgh. A journey based upon the suburban development of south Edinburgh but inviting comparison with other British cities.
BRITISH INDUSTRY
Dr D. Greasley, Dr R Lloyd-Jones and Dr M. Lewis
Composed of two units:
British Industry and Regional Industrial Growth
Provides a macroeconomic perspective and investigates the existence of discontinuities in Britain's long-term industrial growth.
Cotton, Lancashire and the Industrial Revolution
The variety of regional industrial experience within Britain is examined in this strand, taking a detailed look at the organisation of the cotton industry, its regional concentration, and the strategy of its entrepreneurs during the industrial revolution.
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF INDUSTRIALISATION
K. Holden, Dr D. Jeater, Dr. S. King, Dr P. Kirby and Dr G. Timmins
Primary and secondary textual sources, maps, images and film footage compliment a tutorial embracing a variety of methodological and historiographical approaches to the social aspects of industrialisation.
The topics include:
| The Pre-modern Period |
THE PAPACY, RELIGIOUS CHANGE AND CHURCH REFORM 1049-1125
Prof. T. Reuter
Addresses complex issues such as institutional church reform, changes in Christian spirituality and the growth of papal authority and makes them easier to grasp by linking them at every stage to crucial passages in contemporary sources.
Key topics include:
THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION:
RELIGIOUS CHANGE AND THE PEOPLE OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE
Dr M. Greengrass and Dr C. Scott Dixon
The theme of this tutorial is the variety of 'reformations' which occurred in Europe, with an appreciation of how much political, institutional and social context affected the way the Protestant Reformation developed in different locations. The practical effects to established patterns of belief and the consequences affecting ordinary people are examined. At each stage in this tutorial there are suggested open-ended exercises, complemented by an variety of visual images.
MIGRATION AND POPULATION CHANGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TOWNS
Prof P. Clark and Dr D. Souden
An overview of migration and urban growth in sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century England is given here, discussing the various classes of migrants and their motives. The tutorial explores the part migration played in maintaining the urban hierarchy and the way it promoted change.
| "... Even in a well resourced lecture situation the 'hand-out' will rarely have more than two maps and photographs. The TLTP unit can offer a much greater variety of visual resources. This is characteristic of the manner in which units such as this can re-inforce rather than replace teaching..." Prof. R J Morris (University of Edinburgh) |
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