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......BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LJUBLJANA : DR RICHARD MAJOR : 2011-2012
I. Class schedule
Mondays, periods III and IV, ZK101
Tuesdays, periods I and II, ZK206, 209
Fridays, periods VII and VIII, ZK101
Here is our third term revision timetable.
II. The course
The C.I.E curriculum (you want pages 7 and 8, which the browser calls 9 and 10).III. Past A-level papers
I've put up the actual exam papers, the examiner's report (r), and the grade scheme (s).November 2011 (s)
June 2011 (r, s)
November 2010 (r, s)
June 2010 (r, s)
November 2010 (r, s)
III. Components of the course
We need to master five of the six themes (we are not doing number 5):Theme 1 French Revolution
Theme 2 Industrial Revolution
Theme 3 Nationalism
Theme 4 The ‘New Imperialism’, c. 1870–1900
Theme 5 The Russian Revolution WE ARE NOT DOING THIS
Theme 6 Totalitarianism between the Wars, 1919–39
and the source-based topic: The Origins of the First World War, 1870-1914
IV. Some exemplary essays
Here is Alex on the French Revolution and the Industial Revolution; Aleksander on France and the Industry; Becca on the French Revolution; and all of you on the New Imperialism.V. Some light reading
I'll put some texts up here for you soon. But if you want a really a jolly way into nineteenth-century history, you can't do better than the Flashman novels. All rollicking, but amazingly well researched.VI. Some videos
One of the great things about this 150 year period is that more films have been made about it than about all the rest of history put together. (Naturally! It is the most interesting period of time there has ever been.) So there are always moving images to hand, to stir up our imagination - which is an historian's most important mental faculty......Here are some brief videos of supreme moments in modern European history:
The French Revolution, showing the execution of Robespierre and his minions in 1794, and the prison massacres of September 1793. (Warning: these scenes are extremely bloody. Do not watch if you are feeling sensitive, don't let younger siblings watch at all, and remember that studying modern history is only for the brave.)
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The Crimean War - a scene from a Hollywood film, a vehicle for Errol Flynn, who gets killed in the last frames.
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The Great War: some news-reels of the run-up to war and the trenches.
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But modern Europe wasn't all carnage: here's a ball in London in the gorgeous turn-of-the-century, from the musical film My Fair Lady: never such poise and elegance again!
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VII. Some quotes
Celui qui n’a pas vécu au dix-huitième siècle avant la Révolution ne connaît pas la douceur de vivre.
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living.
............the wicked Talleyrand
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
............Oscar Wilde
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
............Victor Hugo
