- How serious was the threat of popular radicalism in Britain during the French Wars?
- Discuss the impact of industrialization on the lives of ordinary people before 1850. Have the negative effects been exaggerated?
- What did the 1832 Reform Act change, and who did it benefit?
- Was the Chartist movement a failure?
- What role did religion play in addressing the problems of industrial Britain in the 19th century?
- What does the Great Exhibition of 1851 tell us about Victorian society?
- What were the causes of the British empire’s vast territorial expansion in the 19th century?
- In what ways did women’s experience of the city change between 1880 and 1914?
- To what extent had Irish independence become inevitable by 1914?
- What was cultural impact of the First World War in Britain?
- What was “shell shock” and how did views of it change in Britain in the era of the First World War?
- To what extent did the empire have an impact on British culture?
- Why did political extremism fail in Britain in the 1930s?
- What impact did the experience of war on the Home Front have on British society? To what extent was it a “People’s War”?
- Why did Britain grant independence to so many of its colonies after the Second World War?
- Is the “Thatcher Revolution” a myth?