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Period: 700 BCE to 43 BCE
Celtic Occupation
iron working--> allowed improvements in agriculture
Hill forts: protection of capital and tribe--> identity
Historical figure: Queen Boudicca fought against the Romans. Referentiality: Women of power -
Period: 43 BCE to 400
Roman
Identity--> Naming Britannia and Londinium the territory (also the -chester suffix)
Literacy: Reading and writing only for the Upper Classes conformed by tradesmen and landowners.
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Period: 400 to 793
Anglo Saxon Occupation
The Witan, antecedent of the parliamentary regime
Division of lands in shires
Introduction of new technologies in agriculture
Each district: “manors”
Catholicism introduced by St. Augustine. Institutionalization of Faith. Concentration of religious power in the monarchy.
Celtic Church: Interested in the practice of faith of the common people
Power of Christian Church
Monasteries: Antecedents of Educational system
"Anglo Saxon Chronicle" An ecclesiastical history of English people by Bede. -
Period: 793 to 1066
Viking Occupation
Antecedents of the British Legal System: The Danelaw. -
Period: 1064 to 1077
Norman Occupation
Last invasion by William the Conqueror
Feudal system: A concentration of lands and owners in a few hands and with this a new stratification of society.
Anglo-norman language displaced old English
Doomsday book: statistic document
Displacement of old aristochracy -
1215
Carta Magna
It promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown -
1348
Black Death
It shaped society not only in numbers but also culturally. The idea of dying and the familiarity with death rendered self-awareness and self-centrism; the questioning of the existence of god would lead to the Antropocentrism -
1425
The Tudors
The Reformation: Rupture State/Church
Displacement of education to royal grammar schools, improving literacy
Intellectually: Anthropocentrism, men as a unit of measure -
1558
Elizabeth I
Elizabethan Era
Flourishment of Arts
Literature
Music
Theatre: spaces in where social classes were diluted. Social aim: to Moralize and entertain. (Shakespeare, Marlowe) -
Period: to
Enlightment
ideas centred on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy— Also liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state.
Equality and Representation of People
John Locke: father of Liberalism. -
The Restoration
Stuart period. It began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under the Stuart King Charles II.
The Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The term Restoration is used to describe both the actual event by which the monarchy was restored.
New political settlement -
The Glorious Revolution
Act of settlement: King had to be catholic.
The Bill of Right: deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights. -
First Prime Minister: Walpole
Represented the Whig party: safeguard of the Hanoverian succession// Defence of the principles of the Glorious Revolution Political supremacy for the Whig party.
Influence on succeeding ministers
Relationship between the Crown and the Parliament -
The Parliament
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Industrial Revolution
Introduction of machinery
International Division of work
New social classes: workers, bourgeois and capitalist
Growth of the cities, internal migration of rural people
Intellectual changing
Definite Installment of Capitalism
New Discoveries. Science as a system.
Positivism and liberal economic ideas.
Political organization of the classes.
Childhood is questioned -
Tea Party in Boston
Antecedent of the Independence movement in the American Continent and France First Atlantic Revolution -
Period: to
Romanticism
Rupture with the enlightenment rational. Interest in the Middle Ages. Seek of identity, subjectivity and freedom. Nationalism -
Period: to
Victorian Age
2° Industrial Revolution
England as an Empire
Poverty and unemployment
Cities grew bigger and towns disappeared
Communication and travel set the basis of globalization
- Positivism (Darwin and scientific society)
- Liberalism (Adam Smith)
Sports: mean for social justice, entertainment and modern morals
Free time: leisure time for the capitalist but set the basis for free time for lower classes
Workers rights
Re-shaping of the conception of war. -
Period: to
Chartism
First big working-class movement for political reform around democracy. Universal vote, secret-ballot.
New Power: the Press -
Period: to
Globalization
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Period: to
Great War
mperialism
Propaganda
Separation of Ireland
Weakness of the Empire
Reshape of nationalism
Sufragettes movement: empowerment of women
Feminism -
Women Rights: Sufrage
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Period: to
WW2
Reshape of nationalism
Modernism: break with old ideas
Existentialism: subjetivism, responsibility, meaning of life
Pessimism: life has no intrinsic meaning or value.
Army propaganda
Sexual revolution
New Feminism
Globalization -
Period: to
Post War
The weakening of institutions.
Flourishing of intellectual and radical ideas
Welfare State
Rupture -
Period: to
Neoliberalism
Margaret Thatcher-->Malvinas War
New Aesthetics, globalized world, corporative democracy.