Re: Nonfiction, postwar sources for course

Sharon Michalove, Editor, H-Albion (mlove@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:42:45 -0600

Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:19:04 -0500
From: C19Histo@aol.com

Regarding Professor Burns' course on C20 Britain:

I recall having read a book called either "Return to Wigan
Pier" or "Wigan Pier Revisited," I forget which, that was
very interesting and covered the issues of poverty, social
justice, and feminism in the postwar period. Depending on
the issues you think are important for the postwar period,
excerpts from newspapers, magazines, recorded speeches,
music, and movies may evoke the time better than
single nonfiction works, since they can be assigned in greater
volume. I've often thought it might be fun to give students
the coverage of a single issue by several different newspapers, representing
the ostensible viewpoints of
various geographic regions, social classes, etc. (or even
different countries, to demonstrate the way in which
Britain's actions were represented abroad, for example
during Suez).

Jamie Bronstein
California Polytechnic State University
disraeli@leland.stanford.edu