The mark scheme requirements: Structure and Focus: • Engages closely with the

The mark scheme requirements: Structure and Focus:
• Engages closely with the question throughout, showing a mature appreciation of its wider implications; • Structure is lucid and allows for the development of a coherent and cogent argument;
• Factual evidence and descriiptive material is used to support the argument, and is both concise and relevant.
Argument and Expression:
• Fluent, coherent and accurate writing;
• Confident command of scholarly vocabulary used by historians;
• Goes well beyond the effective paraphrasing of the ideas of other historians;
• Good conceptual command of the historical and, where relevant, historiographical issues under discussion; • Displays originality and imagination, as well as analytical skills of a high order;
• Moves between generalizations and detailed discussion confidently.
Range of Knowledge:
• Demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge and good understanding of the subject under discussion;
• Demonstrates extensive in-depth reading and critical analysis of the texts, secondary literature and (where relevant) contemporary sources;
• Evaluates the nature and status of the evidence at their disposal; identifies contradictions and attempts a resolution.
Essay topic content:
Second World War and its effects on Britain at home and on the British Empire. The Second World War was a global conflict, fought out across multiple theatres in Europe, North Africa, East Africa and East Asia, with profound consequences for Imperial power and governance. This lecture will explore the build up to the war, as well as the way it affected the peoples’ lives from Manchester to Mumbai. Also how central questions of race and democracy became in the disruption and displacement of the war, exploring its consequences in Metropole and Colony. The thesis for the essay should also address this question: What does the British war effort tell us about wider Imperial governance? in order to fully answer the actual essay question
Use Secondary sources for the essay about 8-10 historians should be used including these specifically:
*Killingray, David and Plaut, Martin, Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War (Boydell & Brewer, 2010), Chapter 2 “Recruiting”, pp. 35-81
*Rose, Sonya, Which People’s War? National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945 (Oxford, 2003), Chapter 7 “Race, Empire and Nation”, pp. 239-284.
The other readings should be from this list: Barkawi, T., Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Soldiers in World War II (Cambridge, 2017) Bland, Lucy Bland, Lucy, Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’: The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War (Manchester, 2020) Calder, Angus, The People’s War: Britain 1939-1945 (Pimlico, 1992) Chand, Alison, ‘Gendered identities in British regions in wartime: Women in reserved occupations in Glasgow and Clydside in the Second World War’, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 40/1 (2020) 40-62. Chevalier, Natacha, Food in Wartime Britain: Testimonies from the Kitchen Front, 1939-1945 (Routledge, 2020) Edgerton, David, ‘The nationalisation of British history: Historians, nationalism and the myths of 1940’, English Historical Review, 136/582 (2021), 950-985. Fennell, J., Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (Oxford, 2019) Field, Geoffrey, Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939-1945 (Oxford, 2011) Gottlieb, Julie V., ‘Gender and the “Jews’ War”: Women, anti-semitism, and anti-war campaigns in Britain, 1938-1940’, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 31/4 (2020),745-770 Hinton, James, ‘The “Class” complex: Mass-observation and cultural distinction in pre-war Britain’, Past & Present, 199/1 (2008), 207-236. Jackson, A., The British Empire and the Second World War (London, 2006) Khan, Y. The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War (London, 2015) Killingray, David and Plaut, Martin, Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) Kushner, Tony ‘ “Without Intending any of the Most Undesirable Features of a Colour Bar”: Race Science, Europeanness and the British armed forces during the Twentieth Century’, Patterns of Prejudice, 46/3–4 (2012), 339–74. Raghavan, S., India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945 (London, 2017) Rose, Sonya, Which People’s War? National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945 (Oxford, 2003) Roy, Anwesha, ‘World War II and the prospect of “Quit India” in Bengal: Perceptions, rumours and revolutionary parties’, South Asia, 44/1 (2021), 16-32 Todman, D., Britain’s War: A New World, 1942-47 (London, 2020) Webster, Wendy, Englishness and Empire 1939-1965 (OUP, 2018) Webster, Wendy, Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain (OUP, 2007) White, Jerry, The Battle of London, 1939-45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty Under Fire (Bodley Head, 2021) PLEASE USE FOOTNOTE STYLE REFRENCING
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