Part 1: Introduction

Ch 1 Approaches to Britain’s history

Images of Britain

Language of the past

The disputed British past

Political history: putting the great in Britain

Labour and social history

Economic history

Cultural history

Section 2: An Uncertain Stability, 1707-1779

Ch 2. The political system

The making of Great Britain

Politics and Power

Whigs and Tories

Queen Anne's government

The Walpole era

Pelham to Pitt

George II and Lord Bute

Lord North

Ch 3. Power and society in rural Britain

Population and economy

Church and religion

Social relations

Ch 4. Urban Life

Town and city

Luxury and consumption

Social rank and culture

Ch 5. The Enlightenment and Gender

The nature of the Enlightenment

The Enlightenment and gender

Ch 6. The British abroad

Early imperial expansion

Canada

India

The Pacific

American Rebellion

Ireland

Part3.  The Industrialising Nation 1780-1829

Ch 7. The Industrial Revolution

Economic change

Causes of change

Patterns of work

Agriculture

Ch 8. The social revolution

-         The birth of class

-         Gender relations

-         The standard of living debate

-         Health and housing

Ch 9. Running the state

-         From North to Pitt

-         Pitt the Younger

-         War with France

-         Ireland and Union

-         Addington to Liverpool

-         The Liverpool Ministry

-         Catholic Emancipation

Ch 10. Britain at war

-          Out of isolation

-         The first coalition

-         The second coalition

-         The third coalition

-         Congress of Europe

Ch. 11. Challenges to the political system

-         Pressures for reform

-         The impact of the French Revolution

-         Ireland

-         Radicalism revives

Part 4. The Dominant Nation 1830-1879

Ch. 12. The making of an urban society

-         Urban conditions

-         Tackling urban problems

-         Poverty, policing and children

Ch 13. The Victorian economy

-         The steam age

-         Economic organisation

-         Blight and depression in Ireland and Scotland

-         Agricultural improvement and society

Ch 14. Class, gender and religion

-         Class

-         Gender

-         Religion

Ch 15. Responses to industrial change

-         Resistance to change

-         The British experience

-         Owenite unionism

-         New attitudes

Ch 16. Politics in transition

-         Whig reform

-         Peel’s government

-         Politics without cohesion

-         Palmerston’s government

-         Liberals, Tories and Reform

-         Gladstone’s first ministry

-         Disraelian Conservatism

Ch 17. The growth of the state

-         How the state grew

-         The Poor Law

-         Public health

-         Factory and mines reform

-         Education

Ch 18. Democratic pressures 

-         Parliamentary reform

-         The factory movement

-         Chartism

-         The Anti-Corn Law League

-         Administrative Reform

-         The Second Reform Act

Part 5: The Imperial Heyday 1880 - 1918

Ch 19.  Britain and its Empire

-         Approaching empire and imperialism

-         Indian revolt, African scramble

-         Explanations of empire

-         Testing the explanations

-         Political considerations

-         South African war

Ch 20. The late-Victorian and war economy  

-         Economic contradictions

-         Did the late Victorian economy fail?

-         Rural society and economy

-         The war economy 1914-1919

Ch 21. Intellectual ferment

-         Modernism

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