BRITISH HISTORY II. TEXTS

GENERAL

British Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries

THE AGE OF LIBERALISM

John Locke: Two Treatises of Government - Explain the nature of man and the factors that characterize the 'civil society' according to John Locke

Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations - Highlight A Smith's economic credo

Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - Explain the essence of utilitarian theory in 3 points.

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty - Explain Mill's understanding of liberty

Political Ideologies Chart - Fill in the chart with the following ideologies: Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Anarchism

VICTORIAN BRITAIN

Benjamin Disraeli: Sybil, or the Two Nations (novel) - Explain the main characteristic of the 19th-century British society according to Disraeli

Charles Robert Darwin: Origin of Species - Identify Darwin's thesis in his Introduction

John Henry Newman: Apologia pro Vita Sua - Explain Newman's opinion about liberalism

Florence Nightingale: Cassandra - Elaborate on the women's situation in the mid 19th-century GB according to F Nightingale

19TH CENTURY BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY I.: BRITAIN AND EUROPE

Map: Europe in 1815 after the Napoleonic wars - Bring to class and identify the great European powers in 1815

Map: Europe in 1871 - Bring to class and identify the great European powers in 1871

The Polish Question by Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - Define the most significant Palmerstonian foreign political principle

The Entente Cordiale Between the United Kingdom and France - Explain the future of Egypt based on the text

Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization - Define the trends of industrial production in GB, USA and Germany in late 19th-century Europe

19TH CENTURY BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY II/A: THE IRISH QUESTION

Sketches in the West of Ireland by Mr. James Mahony - Explain the social consequences of the Irish famine according to the text

Irish Home Rule Speech by William Ewart Gladstone - List Gladstone's reasons for the necessity of giving Ireland the Home Rule

19TH CENTURY BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY II/B: COLONIZATION

Map: Southern Africa Showing the British Colonies and the Boer Republics - Bring to class

THE GREAT WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH

Emmeline Pankhurst: My Own Story - Highlight the situation of women (suffragettes) in pre-war Britain according to E Pankhurst and list her reasons for the necessity of militant conduct

The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes, 1919 - List JM Keynes's reservations about the Treaty of Versailles 1919

BETWEEN THE WARS: APPEASEMENT

Anglo Irish Treaty: Articles of Agreement - Enumerate the main stipulations of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and comment on their significance for both the British and the Irish

Neville Chamberlain: Peace for Our Time, 30 September, 1938 - Compare and contrast PM Chamberlain's assessment of the Munich Agreement with that of Churchill (see below)

Winston Churchill: A Total and Unmitigated Defeat, 5 October, 1938

SECOND WORLD WAR AND WELFARE STATE

Winston Churchill: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat, 13 May, 1940 - Explain Churchill's vision on entering his office as Prime Minister

Social Insurance and Allied Services: A Report by Sir William Beveridge - Enumerate the three guiding principles of the Beveridge report and comment on their significance.

Churchill-Stalin: Percentage agreement, October 1944 - Elaborate on the essence of the Agreement between Churchill and Stalin regarding the future of East Central Europe

GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EC

Winston Churchill: The Sinews of Power (Iron curtain) speech, 5 March, 1946 - Explain Churchill's view of postwar (East Central) Europe

Winston Churchill: Let Europe Arise!, 19 September, 1946 - Explain Churchill's vision of the future of Europe and list its preconditions

Map: The Suez Crisis 1956 - Bring to class

Hugh Gaitskell: The end of a thousand years of history, 3 October, 1962 - List Gaitskell's arguments against joining the EEC

MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Harold Macmillan: Wind of Change Speech, 3 February 1960 - Explain what PM Harold Macmillan means by the term 'wind of change'

Map: South Asia in 1951 - Bring to class

Map: Decolonization of Africa - Bring to class. List the former British colonies and dominion in Africa

Enoch Powell. 'Rivers of Blood' speech, 20 April 1968 - List the problems caused by immigration and possible solutions according to E.Powell

THATCHERISM

Margaret Thatcher: TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World ("Victorian Values"), 16 January, 1983 - List the characteristics of PM Margaret Thatcher's ideal Britain

Margaret Thatcher: Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech"), 20 September, 1988 - Explain Thatcher's view about the European Community and the role of the NATO in Europe