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Topics:

1. Changing worlds: the French Revolution.

  1. The French Revolution

2. Changing worlds: industrialisation

  1. Industrial Revolution in Britain: changing technology, agriculture and trade, exploitation and the new world of work, trade unionism, the growth of urban areas, social problems and political rights

  2. Industrialisation in South Africa: diamonds and gold, and changing work and lives in South Africa on the mines, the land and in the cities (including the 1913 Land Act)

  3. Sugar and labour in Natal

  4. Early trade union movements

3. Resisting British control

  1. Zulu and the British

  2. Pedi and the British

  3. Colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

  4. The Industrial Revolution and colonial expansion

  5. British, Belgian or Portuguese colonies experiences and responses to colonialism

  6. Colonialism and the exploitation of resources

4. Changing ideas and technologies – World War I

  1. How industrialisation, growing nationalism in Europe, and conflict over colonies contributed to the outbreak of World War I and to trench warfare

  2. Women in World War I

  3. The impact of World War I on South Africa