This lesson looked at the Enlightenment as an intellectual and cultural movement in Europe. To introduce the enlightenment the focus of the class was earlier thinkers and natural philosophers such as John Locke, Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton to understand how early scientific thought contributed to the Enlightenment movement. 

This lesson looks at changes that occurred as a result of colonial expansion, economic development and social movement. 

We also look at gender roles, the rising middle class, different professions, demographics and other aspects of English society.

Voluntary and involuntary migration.

The importance of songs and ballads - such as the broadside ballad - in both promoting nationhood, colonialism, but also in story telling about the dangers and as warnings (against piracy, indentured labour). 

Other cultures that emerge as resistance and from the fusion of forms such as the Negro Spirituals.