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Welcome to the British Culture Wiki
- This Wiki currently boasts 1,018 articles - and counting. Thank you to all writers!
- New and newly revised articles are listed under Recent Changes.
- There's also an overview of All Articles.
- All contributions are welcome.
- For an article to count toward the 3 CP tasks, however, it will have to be a substantial and new entry (no double entries under a new heading and no mere revisions, whereas significant expansions of one-sentence stubs are fine). Furthermore, every article will need a bibliography that consists of at least two sources and conforms to the citation guide in the Academic Style Sheet. All verbatim quotes must be identified as such (quotation marks, source incl. the page number) and all other sources need to be acknowledged at the end of the article.
- These rules are necessary for reasons of fairness and academic soundness. However, do not let that keep you from enjoying writing for an audience and from experimenting with the wiki system. The neat thing is: you gain both in writing (by boiling down a topic to its important elements) and in reading, as this wiki is well on the way to being an encyclopaedia of British history and culture, marked by its reliability and its relevance for the Cultural Studies lecture courses.
- Troubleshooting, help and your feedback: Discussion Board on Blackboard or via e-mail.
- Looking for inspiration? Short articles whose expansion counts as a valid contribution to the wiki task are listed under Category:Expansion.
What's hot these days? - Session 1: Introduction
| Monarchs | George III | George IV | William IV | Victoria | |
| Middle Class Values | Prince Albert | Osborne House | Victoria and Albert Museum | Angel in the House | |
| Arts | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Turner | John Constable | Alfred Tennyson | |
| Democratisation? | Peterloo Massacre | Suffrage | First Reform Bill | Chartism | |
| Second Reform Bill | Ballot Act | Third Reform Bill | Local Government Act | ||
| Industrial Revolution | George Stephenson | Great Exhibition | Factory Acts |
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