History 201-206 seminars are open to history majors only during pre-registration. If the course does not reach its enrollment maximum, it will be open to all students beginning with drop/add on a first-come first-serve basis.
HIST 202 Britain in the 1960's
Deveney
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
SEM
Diaries and memoirs are a particularly good place to begin research on the British Labour governments of the 1960s. Never before in the nation's history and never since have such an erudite group of ministers—people like Roy Jenkins, a writer and historian; Barbara Castle and Richard Crossman, journalists; and Tony Benn, a diarist—sat around the same Cabinet table. The published primary sources that they and others left behind provide a well-crafted and insightful glimpse into a former super power struggling to find its place in a world that had changed considerably since World War II. Through their very different perspectives we will assess how the governments of Harold Wilson responded to a host of critical issues, from the troubles in Northern Ireland to the debate over Europe, that have shaped the course of British politics to the present day.
