Lecture Programme
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TERM 1 PRACTISING HISTORY: INTERPRETING AND EXPLAINING HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND HISTORICAL CHANGE |
| Week | Monday Weekly Lecture (OCO.03, 5-6pm) | Lecture Powerpoint and Recording |
| 1 |
What is Historical Practice? Sophie Mann |
Lecture 1 Powerpoint |
| 2 |
Agency and Historical Change in History Writing: The Contrasting Approaches of Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) and Karl Marx (1818-1883) Claudia Stein |
Lecture 2 Powerpoint |
| 3 |
History from Below: Historians as Political Activists and the Concept of Agency Lydia Plath |
Lecture 3 Powerpoint |
| 4 |
The Annales School Aditya Sarkar |
Lecture 4 Powerpoint |
| 5 |
The Historian as Anthropologist: Microhistory, the Anthropological Turn and the Rise of Cultural History Michael Bycroft |
Lecture 5 Powerpoint |
| 6 |
Reading Week - No Lectures or Seminars |
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| 7 |
The Linguistic Turn (1970/80): Language, Truth and Human Experience in History Writing Claudia Stein |
Lecture 7 Powerpoint |
| 8 |
Gender, Sexuality and Categories of Analysis Lydia Plath |
Lecture 8 Powerpoint |
| 9 |
Postcolonial History and Subaltern Studies Michael Bycroft |
Lecture 9 Powerpoint |
| 10 |
Black Studies: Critical Race Theory and Decolonising History Lydia Plath |
Lecture 10 Powerpoint |
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TERM 2 MAKING HISTORY: METHODS, SOURCES AND CURRENT TRENDS IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH |
Week |
Monday Weekly Lectures | Lecture Powerpoint and Recording |
| 1 |
History Writing and the Rise of 'Lived Experience', 1970s-2000s Claudia Stein |
Lecture 1 Powerpoint |
| 2 |
Global History and the Networked World David Lambert |
Lecture 2 Powerpoint |
| 3 |
Feeling and Sensing the Past: The History of the Emotions Claudia Stein |
Lecture 3 Powerpoint |
| 4 |
What is a Primary Source? Historical Evidence and How to Interpret it Sophie Mann |
Lecture 4 Powerpoint |
| 5 |
How to Use and Interpret Textual Sources Sophie Mann and Lydia Plath |
Lecture 5 Powerpoint Lecture 5 |
| 6 | Reading Week - No Lectures or Seminars | |
| 7 |
Beyond Texts - Material and Visual Sources David Lambert |
Lecture 7 |
| 8 |
Historical Argument Michael Bycroft |
Lecture 8 Powerpoint |
| 9 |
AI and the Values of History Lydia Plath |
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| 10 |
Question and Answer Session HI2K9 Teaching Team |
TERM 3
NO LECTURES. SEMINARS WILL RUN IN WEEKS 1-3 . YOU CAN USE THESE SESSIONS TO WORK ON YOUR PROJECT, ASK QUESTIONS AND GET FEEDBACK FROM TUTORS