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HIST7341: London in the 20th Century: From Imperial to Global City

Dr Michael Collins

This course offers students a selective overview of aspects of social, economic and cultural change in Twentieth-century London. The teaching method draws heavily on primary sources, aiming to give students a feel for the detail of the social and cultural changes they are examining. Each weekly seminar will focus on a core set of primary sources. Students will be expected to investigate newspapers, journals and film archives (where available). The over-arching aim of the module is to illustrate how the social and material fabric of the city is made and remade in the everyday world, and how these shifts are caused by, and intersect with broader political themes of national identity, empire and decolonisation, immigration and multiculturalism. The course will be taught via 10 two-hour seminars, supplemented by two (optional) fieldwork trips to Spitalfields and Brixton.

Weekly Topics:

1. Metropole: Imperial City?

2. Jazz Age: London in the 1920s

3. Ideology : Communism, Fascism and the Jewish East End

4. War: The Blitz, the City, the Nation and the Empire

5. Space: Rebuilding London after World War II

6. Immigration: Patterns of Settlement and Race Relations

7. Youth: Mods, Rockers, Skins and Punks

8. Violence: Policing, Riots and Urban Space

9. Sex: Queer London and Sexual Deviance

10. Money: The City of London, Then and Now