1.

The ability to analyse a wide range of primary as well as secondary sources, including samples of imaginative literature of the period (assessed through Component A - Element 1, Component B - Elements 1 and 2);

2.

an understanding of the historiographical debates which have enriched our understanding of gender relations in this period and some familiarity too with the emerging historiography of Britain's religious and ethnic minorities of this period (assessed through Component A - Element 1, Component B - Elements 1 to 3);

3.

a grasp of selected themes in British imperial policy, especially regarding slavery, and British expansion in India at the end of the century (assessed through Component A - Element 1, Component B - Elements 1 to 3);

4.

a range of library skills-namely a familiarity with relevant journals, reference books , micro-film collections, confidence in the use of search engines and bibliographical databases, the British Humanities index, Historical Abstracts and other search facilities(assessed through Component B - Elements 1 to 3);

5.

the ability to use web sources critically (assessed through Component B - Element 3);

6.

the ability to employ scholarly apparatus and reference, fully and correctly (assessed through Component B - Elements 1 to 3);

7.

that they are conversant with the main subject areas covered by the course (assessed through Component A - Element 1, Component B - Elements 1 to 3).

Bowen, Huw

Elites, enterprise, and the making of the British overseas empire, 1688-1775, (Basingstoke:Macmillan, 1996).

Davidoff L. and Hall, C.

Family Fortunes (London:Hutchinson,1987).

Endelman, T.

The Jews of Georgian England 1714-1830, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).

Fletcher A.

Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500-1800, (New haven and London: Yale University Press,1995).

Gerzina, Gretchen.

Black England: life before emancipation. (London: John Murray; New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 1995).

Hall C.

‘The early formation of Victorian domestic ideology’ in White Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History, (Cambridge: Polity, 1992).

T. Hitchcock &

Cohen , M.(eds.)

English Masculinities 1660-1800 (London: Longman,1999) chapters 1, 3 and 6.

Kershen, Anne

'Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields and the spirit of capitalism'. In Kershen, Anne J. (ed.), London: the promised land?: the migrant experience in a capitol city, (Aldershot: Avebury on behalf of the Centre for the Study of Migration, 1997), 66-90.

Marshall, Peter James (ed.),

The Oxford history of the British Empire, vol. 2: The eighteenth century, (Oxford, 1998).

Pinchbeck I.

Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850 (London: Frank Cass & Co., 1930, 1969).

Shoemaker R.

Gender in English Society 1650-1850 (London. Longman, 1998).

Statt, Daniel

Foreigners and Englishmen. the controversy over immigration and population, 1660-1760, (Newark. University of Delaware Press. London. Associated University Press,1995).

Stone,L.

Family Sex and Marriage 1500-1800,(London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977).

Trumbach R.

Sex and the Gender Revolution, vol. 1, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) Chapter 1.