top of page
Search
  • Writer's pictureWilliam Tyler
    • Jan 11, 2021
    • 1 min read

Synopsis for first morning class of JW3 'Semi-Detached Island' course on Thursday 14th January @11am

Island Mentality


1 Island Mentality. What does this mean?

1a Included in above a special piece on concept of Exceptionalism

2 Versions of history

3 The history curriculum debate in Britain today

4 1066 and onwards

5 Elizabeth I's reign: two key speeches

6 War with France throughout 18th and 19th centuries

7 To Mr Gladstone the last word!



Three Book References


Britain's Europe by Bernard Simms

1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke

We laughed at Boney by Jack Werner





91 views0 comments

Recent Posts

See All

Democracy finally arrived in Germany in the wake of a Civil War that immediately followed the breakdown after World War One. It arrived in the form of The Weimar Republic (named after the city where

Kaiser Wilhelm II C.Clarke The Sleepwalkers (road to war) C.Clarke Ring of Steel (Germany and Austria at war) A.Watson The Three Emperors M.Carter Berlin (in 20th Century) S.M

Once Bismarck had been dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890, Germany's Foreign Policy took a distinct turn to what, in the end, became the policy of Weltpolitik, that is world politics; the attempt

bottom of page