HISTORY 418 – HISTORY OF BRITAIN – ED BEASLEY

Assignment for Week I--

Bill of Rights (1689)

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/england.htm

Act of Settlement (1701)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/dec/06/monarchy

Act of Union (1707)

Please copy this into your browser: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Act_of_Union_1707

Be ready to discuss (1) what each Act did, (2) what each one tells you about the preoccupations of the time, and (3) how each one might feed into the American constitutional system. This does not mean that you have to read every dsetail of each Act.

For Week II – Blake Reading.

For Week III – Burke Reading.

For Week IV – Harriet Martineau reading.

For Week V – Jane Eyre reading; Sybil reading.

For Week VII -- Darwin Passage -- the end of "The Origin of Species"

For Week VIII -- Kipling poems on empire; Forster xerox to be distributed in class

For Week X -- WWI.

For Week XI – http://spichtinger.net/otexts/believe.html

For Week XII – Orwell’s The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius:

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/

For Weeks XIII and XIV – xeroxes to be distributed in class.

FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS