Undergraduate Course: Edinburgh since 1750 (ECSH10084)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Taking Edinburgh as it point of focus, the course explores the processes underlying urban development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, taking in social, spatial, cultural, legal, economic, and political factors. It also explores the relationships between each. |
| Course description |
The course builds to provide a comprehensive view of the development of a single space, from the new phase of building during the Enlightenment, which created the city¿s distinctive New Town, through the impact of industrial development in the nineteenth century and then the city¿s adaptation to a post-industrial world from 1945. The particular nature of Edinburgh is emphasised, while locating the city¿s story firmly within the wider pattern of urban development within and beyond Britain.
WEEKLY TOPICS:
1: Introduction: course outline, weekly assignments
2: Policing society: public administration 1800-1865
(Edinburgh City Archives - local acts)
3: Insanitary city and environmental inequalities
(Littlejohn Report 1865; City Archives; UoE Research Centre)
4: Making a living: mapping communities
(PO Directories, NLS)
5: Spaces of governance: civil society and the organisation of power
(Post Office Directories: Edinburgh Room and University Archives)
6: Edinburgh improved: walking tour.
7: From Geddes to Abercrombie: Edinburgh 1890-1950 (Abercrombie Report, 1949)
8: Images and Imaginings: the city in texts, photographs, film, maps and art (group work)
(Contemporary novels/writings; Capital Collections (on line); Scottish Screen Archive (NLS); and galleries (SPG, Edinburgh City Art Centre)
9: Reinventing the city: Dalry and Fountainbridge 1950-2010
(Edinburgh Central Library: local plans)
10: Heritage v Conservation: what is the difference?
(local newspapers, Cockburn Association website, Edinburgh City Council planning portal)
11: Overview: continuity and change
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | A pass or passes in 40 credits of first level historical courses or equivalent and a pass or passes in 40 credits of second level historical courses or equivalent.
Before enrolling students on this course, Directors are asked to contact the History Honours Admission Secretary to ensure that a place is available (Tel: 503783). |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 History courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. Applicants should note that, as with other popular courses, meeting the minimum does NOT guarantee admission.
** as numbers are limited, visiting students should contact the Visiting Student Office directly for admission to this course **
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, command of the body of knowledge considered in the course;
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, an ability to read, analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship;
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, an ability to understand, evaluate and utilise a variety of primary source material;
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, the ability to develop and sustain scholarly arguments in oral and written form, by formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence;
- demonstrate independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers.
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Reading List
1. R. Rodger The Transformation of Edinburgh (2001).
2. R. Rodger The Scottish cities in T. M. Devine and J. Wormald, eds., Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History, 455-73.
3. R. Q. Gray The Labour Aristocracy in Victorian Edinburgh (1976).
4. D. A. Reeder and R. Rodger, Industrialisation and the city economy, in M. J. Daunton, ed., Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. 3. (2000), esp. 553-92.
5. R. J. Morris Civil society and the nature of urbanism: Britain, 1750-1850, Urban History, 25, 1998, 289-301.
6. H. J. Dyos and M. Wolff, eds., The Victorian City: Images and Realities
7. A. J. Youngson The Making of Classical Edinburgh (1966).
8. M. Glendinning Rebuilding Scotland: the Post War Vision 1945-75 (1997)
9. R. Hewison The Heritage Industry, Britain in a Climate of Decline, (1987).
10. C. Hamlin Environmental sensibility in Edinburgh 1839-40: the fetid irrigation controversy, Journal of Urban History, 20, 1994, 311-39
11. G. Morton Civil society, municipal government and the state: enshrinement, empowerment, and legitimacy, Urban History, 25, 1998, 348-67.
12. N. T. Phillipson Culture and society in the 18thC province: the case of Edinburgh and the Scottish Enlightenment in L. Stone, ed., The University in Society, (1975), 407-48.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Edinburgh 1750 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Richard Rodger
Tel:
Email: Richard.Rodger@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Diane Knowles
Tel: (0131 6)50 3781
Email: diane.knowles@ed.ac.uk |
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