IV: LECTURE AND SEMINAR DATES AND TOPICS:

1. Introduction: the British Empire in contemporary focus.

Lecture: Tuesday 30 January 2001

Seminar: Thursday 1 February 2001

2. The Pink Bits: the British imperial experience to 1897.

Lecture: Tuesday 6 February 2001

Seminar: Thursday 8 February 2001

3. The White Man's Burden: strategic and defence considerations 1897-1914.

Lecture: Tuesday 13 February 2001

Seminar: Thursday 15 February 2001

4. Turbulent Interior: imperialism at home 1897-1914.

Lecture: Tuesday 20 February 2001

Seminar: Thursday 22 February 2001

5. World War and Empire: 1914-1918.

Lecture: Tuesday 27 February 2001

Seminar: Thursday 1 March 2001

6. Recalibration: inter-war considerations.

Lecture: Tuesday 6 March 2001

Seminar: Thursday 8 March 2001

7. World War and Empire: 1939-1945.

Lecture: Tuesday 13 March 2001

Seminar: Thursday 15 March 2001

8. Socialism and Empire: the Attlee Government 1945-51.

Lecture: Tuesday 20 March 2001

Seminar: Thursday 22 March 2001

Easter Holiday

9. Cold War and Empire: years of consensus and contraction 1951-1979.

Lecture: Tuesday 24 April 2001

Seminar: Thursday 26 April 2001

10. Rhodesia to Hong Kong: contemporary imperialism 1979-1997.

Lecture: Tuesday 1 May 2001

Seminar: Thursday 3 May 2001

11. Glory and Embarrassment: the historiography of British Imperialism.

Lecture: Tuesday 8 May 2001

Seminar: Thursday 10 May 2001

12. Conclusion: the balance sheet, economic, political, and cultural.

Lecture: Tuesday 15 May 2001

Seminar: Thursday 17 May 2001