Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- analyse critically a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources
- structure your ideas and research findings into well-ordered essays
- engage with secondary literature on the Great Exhibition, and contribute to the debates relating to the historiography of Victorian Britain and its relationship to the wider world
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- locate and use effective textual, visual and material culture sources in the library and on-line, synthesising this material in order to develop cogent arguments
- utilise and develop your time-management skills
- research historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in written essays and reports
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the chronology of, and personalities involved with, the Great Exhibition, alongside current historiographical debates surrounding its interpretation;
- key examples from the Exhibition itself which you can use to explore a range of phenomena, including the creation of new taxonomies and the Victorian love of commodification
- key primary sources and literature, charting the development of the Exhibition, contemporary experiences of it, and reactions to it;
- the wider context of industrial change, including global technological advancement, new manufacturing techniques and new approaches to art and design;
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Completion of assessment task | 90 |
Tutorial | 1 |
Wider reading or practice | 77 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 90 |
Seminar | 42 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Young, Paul (2009). Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Gibbs-Smith, C. H. (1951). The Great Exhibition of 1851. London: HMSO.
Purbrick, Louise (2001). The Great Exhibition of 1851: new interdisciplinary essays. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Auerbach, Jeffrey A and Peter H Hoffenberg (eds) (2008). Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Hoffenberg, Peter H. (2001). An Empire on Display: English, Indian and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Babbage, Charles (1851). The exposition of 1851: or, views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street.
Wesemael, Pieter van (2001). Architecture of instruction and delight: a socio-historical analysis of World Exhibitions as a didactic phenomenon (1798-1851-1970). Rotterdam: 010 Publishers.
Greenhalgh, Paul. (1990). Ephemeral Vistas: History of the Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and the World’s Fairs. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Leapman, Michael (2001). The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation. London: Review.
Gold, John R. and Margaret M. (2005). Cities of culture: Staging international festivals and the urban agenda, 1851-2000. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External