Landmarks in British history

From Empire to Commonwealth, monarchy and modern democracy, the UK and Europe (LK-2008)

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Test

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Test: May 10, 2007

Prep: Kipling, the ‘White Man’s Burden,’ and U.S. Imperialism

Reference

 

Links

UK Parliament

A-Z of Parliament

Mod Hist. Sourcebook

Steve Bell

Cartoon Museum

Geroge Orwell - works

Orwell on Kipling

British Empire

Stereotypes

Monarchy

Link collection

Kings & Queens

Satire A B C D E F

Punch

Monarchs may reign, but it's cartoonists who rule

Charles & Camilla

Harpweek

Elizabeth II

Future of the monarchy

Fiction

E.M.Forster:
Howards End / Film

 

Empire / Commonwealth

British Empire

Superpower

A to Z of Englishness

India under the British

Imperialism

Empire links

British Poetry / Anthems

Anthem4England

Patriotism   Ind BBC

WWI political cartoons

Australian Nat Anthem *

The Commonwealth

Prof Metcalf seminar

American Empire

Victorian Web

cartoonstock
British Empire cartoons

History Channel

 

updates

Pointless Prince Broadsheets v Tabloids Queen script MS compatibility pack The Queen's Address on the death of Princess Diana

Commonwealth/Empire

National Anthem

National Symbols

Timeline

Poetry Monarchy

Images / Cartoons

Archive

Commonwealth & Empire

The British Empire The claim that the sun never set on the British Empire was not an empty boast. more

The Commonwealth The terms Commonwealth or Commonwealth of Nations refer to a voluntary association of 50 independent  ..... more ....

Racism & Public Policy White Man's Burden Race for AfricaCecil Rhodes

De Beers Albu Diamond Wedding

Poetry

Horatio's Death Meter ExerciseDulce et Decorum est A B C Poetry termsVocab OwenPoetryNat. Anthem London * Blake: Jerusalem   * * Albion   Cinque PortsPatriotism

Glossary of Poetry Terms Poets' Graves  answers.com  Poetry.com Literary termsguideUni-Greiswaldversificationexamples

Poetry workshop: rhyme morealliteration / repetition / images / metaphor / rhythm / metre stress levels / PoV / allusion / quiz

Rule Britannia: song + poem / Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory, and more / God Save the Queen

 

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Group

Topic

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Cherokee: Valérie, Isabel, Laura

Monarchy: Links / Future of the monarchy    / The QueenScreenplay (pp 51-54)

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Sioux: Anna Lena, Steffen N, Simon, Judith

UK & Europe: Eurosceptics v Europhiles / Google news

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Shoshone: Annika, Steffen S, Sarah, Kai

British Empire: Engineering an Empire

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Navaho: Frederic, Stephan, Nico, Marcel

Commonwealth: Commonwealth.org

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Apache: Paul, Manuel, Kamil, Carina

Politics of the UK

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Ojibwa: Dennis, Pieter, Christoph

Stereotypes: Brain of Britain

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Constitutional Traditions

United Kingdom / History of democracy / Politics of the UK / UK Parliament / British National Anthem

Magna Carta: British Library / Answers.com / Wikipedia / Inalienable Rights / Culture of democracy

Inquiry into Britain's Democracy

 

Engineering an Empire

Engineering An Empire - GB NTV 29Sep

English History / timeline

/ Britannia / Poor Britannia

Victoria's Empire BBC1 Apr 29 '07

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1935) - Views of Colonialism

Take up the White man's burden --
Send forth the best ye breed --
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild --
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child. more ...

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1935)

The White Man's Burden

Rudyard Kipling: Jungle Book

Poetry / Responses

Classic reader

Just So Stories

The Black Man's Burden

Savage: Iraq war is "white man's burden"

Monarchy

Sreenplay / Extract

BBC review

Telegraph

Dame Helen Mirren

Trailer

P. Morgan Interview

The Queen Q&A

Senior Editor Jeff Goldsmith interviews screenwriter Peter Morgan about The Queen Download podcast here

Charles: The Meddling Prince

Ch 4 Mar 12 

Images / Cartoons

Mangal Pandey

Gordon Brown The Blair years: 1997-2007 (BBC) Peter Mandelson Bush - Blair (Steve Bell cartoon)

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Archive

2008

Pieter's education cartoon

Rule Britannia v Cool Britannia Xmas Poem Competition   ►Christmas Oratorio Maajid Nawaz

Book Recommendations Fifty Pence Coin British IslesLK Bayern 

Thanksgiving Victorian Era

liberalhypocrisy final debate

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2007

Trade row mars EU-Africa talks The Royal Family at Work Ghanaian colonial history

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

Brown signals foreign policy shift towards EU

Steven Bell cartoons A cartoon history of the EU

AborigineesFraser IslandTony Blair resigns - Gordon Brown the successor?

Kipling, the ‘White Man’s Burden,’ and U.S. Imperialism White Man's Burden Rule, Britannia (song) mp3 *Rule Britannia

Erwartungen Probeklausur vom 12.5.  ►English HistoryRule Britannia - Proms

Road to Emancipation The QueenWattIdioms

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