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Core Resources for Historians

Synopsis
Twelve tutorials, each centred around a lecture written by a subject specialist. The lecture introduces the historical issues, evidence and interpretation. The tutorials are supplemented by resources such as primary and secondary texts, photographic images, database functions, images and maps, bibliographical guides, glossaries and chronologies, and video clips.
Series
History Courseware Consortium, Tltp Project
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Multimedia; CD-ROM. PC Windows version only.
Year of production
1998
Availability
Sale; 1998 sale: £60.00 (inclusive)
Notes
Reviewed by David Englander in ‘Viewfinder’ 35 (2/99), p23.
Documentation
Accompanying documentation.
Uses
Undergraduate history and related courses on women’s history.
Subjects
History
Keywords
computer-assisted learning; European history; history teaching; suffragette movement; Teaching & Learning Technology Programme; women’s emancipation; women’s rights

Credits

Writer
C Scott Dixon; D Greasley; D Jeater; D Souden; G Timmins; H Meller; Holden K; J Breuilly; J F McMillan; J Hannam; J Jenkinson; J Rendall; M Greengrass; Martin Lewis; P Clark; P Kirby; P Summerfield; R J Aldous; R J Morris; R Lloyd-Jones; R Rodger; R Shoemaker; S J Ball; S King; T Hitchcock; T Reukter; W Doyle

Distribution Formats

Type
CD-ROM

Sections

Title
Women’s history: from the Enlightenment to major themes in the Second World War
Synopsis
1 (by K Holden, P Summerfield, H Meller, J Rendall, J Hannam): In five units: Women and war in 20th-century Britain; Women, cities and social change 1840-1940; Medicine, biology and women's bodies 1840-1940; Women's politics in Britain 1780-1870: claiming

Title
Enfranchising women: the politics of women’s suffrage in Europe 1789-1945
Synopsis
2 (by J McMillan): In three units: The development of women's movements 1789-1914; Opposition to women's suffrage; The coming of women's suffrage 1914-1945.

Title
Mass politics and the revolutions of 1848
Synopsis
2 (by J F McMillan): In three units: The development of women's movements 1789-1914; Opposition to women's suffrage; The coming of women's suffrage 1914-1945.

Title
Great powers and the division of Europe, The 1944-1949
Synopsis
3 (by J Breuilly): In four sections: Popular politics before 1848; Popular politics during 1848; Popular politics and the ending of the revolutions; Perspecgtives on popular politics and 1848.

Title
French Revolution, The: the people enter politics
Synopsis
4 (by R J Aldous and S J Ball): Looks at the division of Europe between 1944 and 1949 into two blocks with redically different politico-economic organisations.

Title
Economic growth and social change in the eighteenth-century English town
Synopsis
5 (by W Doyle): In four sections: Prologue; The Estates General - establishing representative government; The storming of the Bastille - the people emerge; Bread and terror - the spectre of popular government.

Title
Urbanisation in Britain 1780-1914
Synopsis
6 (by T Hitchcock and R Shoemaker): Topics inclue: The population history of English towns; Economy; Social structure and social relations.

Title
British industry
Synopsis
7 (by R J Morris, R Rodger, H Meller, J Jenkinson): Topics include: Urban theory; The built environment; The culture of cities: cultural change and social response; Literary responses to urbanisation; The walking tour [of Edinburgh).

Title
Social aspects of industrialisation
Synopsis
8 (by D Greasley, R Lloyd-Jones, M Lewis): In two units: British industry and regional industrial growth; Cotton Lancashire and the industrial revolution.

Title
Papacy, religious change and church reform 1049-1125, The
Synopsis
9 (by K Holden, D Jeater, S King, P Kirby, G Timmins): Topics include: Becoming a worker: proletarianisation in early industrialising England; Poverty and welfare in industrialising England; Proto-industrialisation and population growth; Human heights and

Title
Protestant reformation, The: religious change and the people of sixteenth-century Europe
Synopsis
10 (by T Reuter): Topics include: Ideas of reform; The state of the church in the 11th century; conflict between Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV.

Title
Migration and the early modern English town
Synopsis
11 (by M Greengrass and C Scott Dixon): Looks at the variety of 'reformations' which occurred in in Europe, with an appreciation of how much political, institutional and social context affected the way the Protestant reformation developed in different loc

Production Company

Name

TLTP History Courseware Consortium

Distributor

Name

University of Glasgow

Email
tltphist@arts.gla.ac.uk
Web
http://www.gla.ac.uk/~histtltp/ External site opens in new window
Phone
0141-330 6979
Fax
0141-330 4942
Address
TLTP History Courseware Consortium
1 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QQ

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