Week	Subject
Week 1	Defining history and social history Ideas and ideologies of the 19th century leading to the spread of socialism, communism and the International Movement Proposed film clip (PFC): BBC documentary
Week 2	The First World War causes and debates and its consequences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgaL0xIazk PFC: Paschendale Uomini Contro by Francesco Rosi
Week 3	The reaction to the war and the impact of the Russian Revolution October 1917: Ten Days That  Shook The World (Sergei Eisenstein)
Week 4	The aftermath of World War I spread of communism, fascism and Germany’s reaction to the Versailles Treaty PFC: The Versailles Treaty BBC Cabiria by Giovanni Pastrone
Week 5	The economic recession of the 1930s and the rise of Hitler PFC: Hitler’s charisma BBC
Week 6	The Spanish Civil War and German and Italian involvement C4 Documentary
Week 7	Chamberlain and Appeasement. The outbreak of World War II PFC: BBC documentary
Week 8	Churchill’s actions and policies. The blockade on food and raw materials to Europe PFC: BBC documentary
Week 9	Occupied Europe. Coping with military occupation, starvation and survival PFC: The Forgotten Greek Famine (S. and J. Lecoeur)
	**** CHRISTMAS BREAK ****
Week 10	Turning the tide of war, campaigns in Italy, Russia, France and Germany
Week 11	The Final Solution and the fate of the Jews across Europe PFC: The Longest Journey
Week 12	The aftermath of war. Dealing with the consequences: collaboration and war criminals PFC: Le chagrin et la pitié
Week 13	Resistance movements and the impact on post-war France, Italy and the Balkans
Week 14	The long-term consequences of war. Populations displaced. Germany reconfigured PFC: Germania Anno Zero (Rosselini) The Labyrinth of Silence
Week 15	The post war, the welfare state and women's lives. Coping with austerity in Britain PFC BBC documentary
Week 16	Reconstruction, The Marshall Plan, post war boom PFC: La Dolce Vita (F. Fellini)
Week 17	The Cold War, espionage and the Iron Curtain Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) BBC documentary on British spies
Week 18	The Suez Crisis and the impact of decolonization on Britain
Week 19	Khruschev and destalinization. The consequences of ‘glasnost’, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union
Week 20	A changing world: the impact of the technological revolution on daily life. Summing up the 20th Century and its legacy

Provisional reading list for the Autumn term

Core reference:

• Eric Hobsbawn,  Age of Extremes: The short Twentieth Century  (Abacus, 1994)
• Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century  (Allen Lane, 1998)
• Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Allen Lane, 2008)
• Konrad H. Jarausch,  Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (2015) Timothy Snyder, Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century  Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949  (2015)

Reference books for defining history:

• E.H. Carr,  What is History?  (Penguin, frequent reprints)
• Eugen Weber,  Peasants into Frenchmen

Definition of social history:

• http://www.historytoday.com/raphael-samuel/what-social-history
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialhistory

Background to the 20th century:

• James Joll,  Europe since 1870  (Pelican, many reprints)  NB See  Chapter 6: The Industrial Society and its Critics

Socialism and Communism:

• Karl Marx,  The Communist Manifesto
• Edmund Wilson, To The Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (2004 ) 
• John Reed ,Ten Days That Shook the World (2007)
• Ruis, Marx for Beginners (Unwin/ Writers and Readers paperbacks, frequently reprinted)

First World War:

• http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/causeww1.htm#c
• G.J. Meyer, A World Undone (2006)
• Gerard J. DeGroot, Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War. (Longman, 1996.) 
• Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (2014)

Fiction:

• Ernest Hemingway,  A Farewell to Arms  (Re Caporetto 1917)
• Erich Maria Remarque,  All Quiet on the Western Front   (1996) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That  (Penguin Modern Classics 2000)Pat Barker, Regeneration (Trilogy about the war. Viking Press 1991)

Nationalism, proto fascism and Nazism:

• http://www.britannica.com/topic/nationalism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Fascism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_and_reception_of_Friedrich_Nietzsche#Early_20th-century_thinkers
• Ian Kershaw, The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich  (2001)

The Wall Street crash and its consequences in Europe:

• http://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression               
• http://www.dhr.history.vt.edu/modules/eu/mod04_depression/context.html
• https://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/de/professuren/vwl/wg/economic-history-research/publications/wolf-publications/wolfcoordinationfailureafterww1

Fiction:

• George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

The League of Nations:

• Susan Pederson, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford 2015)
• Interwar Period. Culture, Society and Politics

The Second World War:

• AJP Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War  1961
• NB See core references above.
• Paul Dowswell, The Usborne Introduction to The Second World War: (Internet-linked 29 Apr 2005)
• Fiction: Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise (Vintage, 2007) See film.

The consequences of war:

• http://www.britannia.com/history/euro/3/4_2.html
• Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
• David Kynaston, A World to Build. Austerity Britiain 1945-48  (Bloomsbury, 2008)
• Collaboration and the pursuit of war criminals:
• Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France. Old Guard and New Order 1940-44. (1975)
• Julian Jackson,   France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 (2003) 
• Visual sources Pierre Sorlin, European Cinemas, European Societies, 1939-1990 (Studies in Film, Television and the Media) 1991

Dr Sheila Lecoeur has specialised in Italian studies and is currently Coordinator of Italian in the Centre for Languages, Communication and Culture.

Sheila is also a social historian of Europe in the 20th century, with a particular interest in the history of fascism and the Second World War. Sheila has engaged in historical research and has produced a documentary film about Greece in World War II for television. Her book on the Italian occupation of Greece, ‘Mussolini’s Greek island’, has also been translated into Greek. She is currently working on a second documentary film on the present crisis in Greece.

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