This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
The School aims to run in-person?seminars, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary. This course operates reading weeks in the MT and LT.
Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the LT and 2 essays in the MT and LT. Specifically, the course's formative coursework will consist of two essays (MT and LT), one document analysis (LT). Students will also have an opportunity to sit a mock exam.
Jeremy Black, The British Abroad:? the Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century (New York:? St Martin?s Press, 1992) D915 B62 John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997) DA485 B84 James Buzard, ?The Grand Tour and after (1660-1840)?, in Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Cambridge:? Cambridge University Press, 2002) PR756.T72 C17 Edward Chaney, The Evolution of the Grand Tour:? Anglo-Italian Relations since the Renaissance (London:? Frank Cass, 1998) DA47.9 .I8 C45 Tony Claydon, Tony, Europe and the Making of England, 1660-1760 (Cambridge:? Cambridge University Press, 2007) BR757 C62 Stephen Conway, Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century:? Similarities, Connections, Identities (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011) LSE ebooks library Brian Dolan, Ladies of the Grand Tour (London:? HarperCollins, 2001) Women?s Library@LSE 914.0425 DOL Clare Hornsby, ed., The Impact of Italy:? the Grand Tour and Beyond (London:? The British School at Rome, 2000) DA47.9.I8 I31 Rosemary Sweet, Cities and the Grand Tour:? the British in Italy, 1690-1820 (Cambridge:? Cambridge University Press, 2012) John Towner, ?Venturing Abroad:? The European Grand Tour?, in An Historical Geography of Recreation and Tourism in the Western World 1540-1940 (Chichester:? John Wiley, 1996) G155 T74
Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period.