Sumários
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6 Março 2025, 17:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
The Industrial Revolution and social change IV: Urbanisation, class divisions, working-class struggles, early democracy movements.
Readings:
Harvie, Christopher (2010). “8. Revolution and the Rule of Law.” The Oxford History of Britain. Ed. Kenneth O. Morgan, Rev. Ed. Oxford: OUP. 470-517.
Visual texts:
Peterloo (2018) (1819 Peterloo Massacre – repression of working-class struggles)
Ford Madox Brown, Work (1865)
Gustave Doré, Over London by Rail (1872)
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27 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
The Industrial Revolution and social change III: Urbanisation, class divisions, working-class struggles, early democracy movements.
Readings:
Harvie, Christopher (2010). “8. Revolution and the Rule of Law.” The Oxford History of Britain. Ed. Kenneth O. Morgan, Rev. Ed. Oxford: OUP. 470-517.
Visual texts:
Peterloo (2018) (1819 Peterloo Massacre – repression of working-class struggles)
Ford Madox Brown, Work (1865)
Gustave Doré, Over London by Rail (1872)
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25 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
The Industrial Revolution and social change II: Urbanisation, class divisions, working-class struggles, early democracy movements.
Readings:
Harvie, Christopher (2010). “8. Revolution and the Rule of Law.” The Oxford History of Britain. Ed. Kenneth O. Morgan, Rev. Ed. Oxford: OUP. 470-517.
Visual texts:
Peterloo (2018) (1819 Peterloo Massacre – repression of working-class struggles)
Ford Madox Brown, Work (1865)
Gustave Doré, Over London by Rail (1872)
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20 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
The Industrial Revolution and social change I: Urbanisation, class divisions, working-class struggles, early democracy movements.
Readings:
Harvie, Christopher (2010). “8. Revolution and the Rule of Law.” The Oxford History of Britain. Ed. Kenneth O. Morgan, Rev. Ed. Oxford: OUP. 470-517.
Visual texts:
Peterloo (2018) (1819 Peterloo Massacre – repression of working-class struggles)
Ford Madox Brown, Work (1865)
Gustave Doré, Over London by Rail (1872)
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18 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
Historical periodisation
Historical periodisation processes. Links between nineteenth-century Britain and the present moment: presentism; Victorianism in the longue durée. The “imagined close relevance” of Victorian society to “our” own society (McCord and Purdue 2007).
The Industrial Revolution and social change: Urbanisation, class divisions, working-class struggles, early democracy movements. The early 19th century UK, post-Napoleonic Wars: political reform; parliamentary representation.
What is cultural history?
Raymond Williams’s concept of “structure of feeling” (1961, 1977) as a conceptual anchor to understand processes of political, socioeconomic, and cultural change in Britain from the Victorian era to contemporaneity. E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963) – the perspective of “history from below”.
Readings: Burke, Peter. 2008 [2004]. What is Cultural History? Cambridge: Polity. 6-30.