Overview

Example topics include... 1. The 1916 Easter Rising and its legacy. 2. Jewels and massacres: The British Empire and India. 3. Interwar nationalism in Scotland and Wales 4. The Second World War: Lions, Unicorns and national identity 5. The Stone of Scone and the Tryweryn controversy: symbolism in Scottish and Welsh nationalism. 6. The Crown: Monarchy and Britishness. 7. 'Rivers of Blood': Immigration, multiculturalism and race during the 1950s and 1960s, with a case study of Enoch Powell. 8. 'The rise of nationalism': Devolution discourse from the 1960s-1990s. 9. The Troubles, 'Terrorism' and murals: from Bloody Sunday to the Hunger Strikes 10. 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack': race and the National Front during the 1970s and 1980s. 11. The body and national identity: tattoos, clothes and food.

Learning Outcomes

• Analyse individual pieces of historical evidence very closely: setting them in context, judging their qualities as evidence, and explaining their significance.

• Critically appraise historiographical and inter-disciplinary debates and arguments by evaluating competing historical interpretations.

• Critically examine and compare academic interpretations to evaluate various manifestations of nationalism in the UK in the 20th century.

• Demonstrate a close engagement with a range of primary sources relating to nationalism and use them in constructing a historical argument.