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Wednesday, November 07, 2012

L3 Britain since 1945 Research Paper



L3 British civilization.  Research paper instructions November 2012

Each student in the “régime général” will choose one of the subjects below  to write a research paper on.

- The research paper must be handed in immediately after the Christmas holidays.

- The research paper will be 1500 - 1600 words in length, plus the bibliography.

- The bibliography must contain at least five books and five websites. They must be listed according to the normal rules for bibliographies.


- Handwritten work is not allowed. The research paper must be printed, and must use correctly the normal rules of layout for university work (footnotes, italics etc). There will be no spelling mistakes, as students will use automatic spellcheck programmes.

- Extreme care must be used to avoid plagiarism. If you use more than five words together from another source without saying where it comes from, this counts as copying.

- We will not be studying these subjects in any great detail in class. I will however put some links on my Teaching Blog to help you out a little. The address is http://johncmullen.blogspot.com/


- Your research paper must reflect the fact that historians have different opinions. It should avoid simply giving a list of events, but should evaluate their importance.

- The research paper may be illustrated, if the illustrations add something to the argument (the same old pictures of Margaret Thatcher or Harold Wilson are not interesting).

Choose ONE of these subjects

A) Did the twenty five years after the Second World war really constitute a Golden Age in Britain in almost every domain ?

B) Did Thatcherism end in 1990?


John Mullen
john.mullen@wanadoo.fr

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