General History

Hard Times: A History of Debt and Austerity

This short course explores the impact of economic crisis on government and society. It will look at popular responses to hardship across continents and time periods. Sessions may include the ‘hungry 1840s’, life during the Great Inflation of 1923 in Germany, the era of the Depression and New Deal in the United States, Britain and the slump in the 1930s, and the impact of the recession of the 1970s.

The course will be taught by History staff and will be designed to appeal to the adult education market and the public more broadly.

Course Tutor Katharina Rowold
Dates TBC
Times TBC
Fee £20 Click here to enrol online
Concession Fees* £15 Click here to enrol at the Concessionary Rate

Katharina Rowold lectures in modern European history for the BA in History and her research focuses on the history of gender, medicine, and science, and on the history of the European women's movements.

Understanding the Twentieth Century

This short course is aimed at all those who are interested in modern history but feel that their formal education let them down or that they have missed out on acquiring a necessary historical perspective. The topics studied may include the origins and impact of the two world wars, the nature of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism, decolonisation and the legacy of imperialism, the Cold War and the European revolutions of 1989-91.

The course will be taught by History staff and aimed at the general public.

Course Tutors Kathy Lerman, Paul McGilchrist, Katharina Rowold
Dates Tuesday 16 June 2009 to Tuesday 7 July 2009 (4 Tuesday evenings)
Times 6.30pm to 8.30 pm
Fee £ 60 Click here to enrol online
Concession Fees* £50 Click here to enrol at the Concessionary Rate

Kathy Lerman has extensive teaching experience in 19^th and 20^thC European History at undergraduate and postgraduate level including modern Germany, Soviet Russia, European revolutions, the European dynastic empires, and the origins of the First World War, the Holocaust, 20^thC world history and Europe since 1945.

Abraham Lincoln and the American Dream

Designed to coincide with the bicentenary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, this one-day course explores the role and achievements, personality and legacy of the sixteenth President of the United States. It will examine Lincoln’s origins, oratory and ideology and then consider his stance on slavery and his role in the Civil War. The final session will investigate Lincoln’s assassination and legacy, including his influence on the current U.S. President, Barack Obama. Thus the course will highlight connections between America’s past and its present.

The course will be run by History staff and aimed at the general public.

Course Tutor Roland Quinault
Dates Saturday 6 June 2009
Times 10am to 3pm (With one hour lunch break)
Fee £ 20 Click here to enrol online
Concession Fees* £ 15 Click here to enrol at the Concessionary Rate

Dr Roland Quinault is a reader in Hitstory and his particular interest is in the growth of democracy and the character of political leadership. He has published numerous studies of leading politicians ranging from Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain to Asquith and Winston Churchill, and is also interested in the history of London and the connections between present concerns and past history.

All History classes and workshops will be held at North Campus, Tower Building, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB.

*Concession fees apply to London Met staff, people on income support and senior citizens. Evidence of status will be necessary to enrol at the concessionary rate.

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