Empire

Aims

• To know about and understand the causes of colonialism and to identify different type of causes and the relationships between them.
• To use films, newsreels, posters and literature critically and in their historical context.
• To use films, newsreels, posters and literature to identify and analyse representations and interpretations of empire.
• To describe, explain and analyse attitudes towards the colonisers and the colonised during the 19th and 20th centuries.
• To know about and understand the range of contributions made by the colonies and dominions to the British war effort during the Second World War.
• To know about and understand the relationship between slavery, imperial attitudes and racist attitudes, including contemporary racism.
• To understand the range of long and short term consequences of imperialism both within Britain and the Commonwealth.