studies:graduation:final_examination:topics:ba-english:history
final examination topics: BA, English track: history
- Outlines of Roman Britain. Anglo-Saxon England c. 450 to 1066.
- The Norman Conquest and the early feudal system 1066–1199.
- Magna Carta and the early parliaments 1208–1295.
- The Hundred Years’ War: causes, history and consequences. The Great Plague, The Peasants’ Rising and Wycliffe’s critique of church doctrine.
- Tudor England: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I.
- Cromwell’s revolution (The English Civil War), Restoration, and the Williamite settlement (Glorious Revolution) 1642–1690.
- Georgian Britain: the industrial, social and political revolution of the 18th century.
- The rise and decline of Victorian Britain. Party politics, Empire and social upheaval. Crises in Ireland.
- The road to the First World War. The Great War and its consequences for the British political, social and economic scene.
- Britain during the Inter-war years; Appeasement; and the Second World War. The Beveridge Report (1920–1945).
- The post-war Labour government and its achievements; the Suez Crisis, 1956. The post-war consensus in Britain until 1979.
- Margaret Thatcher’s economic and social revolution (1979–1990) and its legacy to the present day.
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