• demonstrate a critical and systematic knowledge of society in south Wales in the interwar period and an understanding of protest movements, industrial action, and the effects of economic depression and mass unemployment;
• critically identify the main trends in the response to and effects of the aftermath of the First World War and depression;
• demonstrate an in-depth and critical understanding of the debates about the key concepts of class, protest, gender, race and nationalism within the historiography of both Welsh and British social history;
• Analyse key themes and issues in the social and economic history of south Wales in the light of these ideas, contexts and framework;
• demonstrate a critical understanding of key primary sources on working-class men, women and children, including the unemployed and immigrant populations, and key political parties in south Wales and their significance.

• Upon the completion of the advanced option, the typical student will be able to:
• identify the nature and scope of the issues raised by studying the working-class, mass unemployment, race riots and strikes in modern Wales;
• discuss in a critical and informed manner the history of society in south Wales in the interwar period;
• summarise and critically evaluate the relative merits and demerits of alternative views and interpretations about the nature of the interwar depression and evaluate their significance;
• identify problems, assess evidence, and reach conclusions consistent with them on the social and economic history of Wales in the interwar period;
• devise and sustain arguments about class, protest and politics in working-class communities using ideas or techniques including the ability to critically examine a range of documents, oral histories, photographs and films;
• present, accurately, succinctly and lucidly, and in written or oral form their arguments in accordance with appropriate scholarly convention.

• Upon the completion of the advanced option, the typical student will be able to:
• express their ideas and assessments on the social and political history of south Wales in the years between the First and Second World Wars;
• discuss in a critical and informed manner the effects of the interwar depression and how the government, working class and labour movement responded to it;
• identify strengths, weaknesses, problems, and or peculiarities of alternative conclusions within the historiography including the ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ interpretations of the impact of the interwar depression;
• apply a critical approach to the nature of primary sources in the assessment of historical interpretations and methodologies about class, gender, race and protest;
• use and evaluate primary sources and demonstrate an appreciation of how historians have approached them.

• Upon the completion of the option, the typical student will be able to:
• communicate ideas and arguments effectively, whether in speech or in writing in an accurate, succinct and lucid manner;
• formulate and justify their own arguments and conclusions about a range of issues;
• demonstrate an ability to modify as well as to defend their own position.
• possess a range of information technology resources to assist with information retrieval;
• organise their own study methods and workload;
• work as part of a team in seminar or tutorial discussions;
• Independently organise their own study methods and workload.

Summative assessment takes the form of one 3,000 – 4,000 word essay (excluding empirical appendices and references).

• Historians and the Interwar Period
• From Boom to Bust: Welsh Society at the End of the First World War
• A Forgotten Episode? The 1919 Race Riots in South Wales
• Votes For the Workers! Votes For Women! Politics, Class and Gender in the 1920s
• 1926: The General Strike, Lockout and Aftermath
• The Great Depression in South Wales: The Forgotten Region
• The Social Impact of the Great Depression
• Concerned and Curious: Social Investigators, Journalists and the Draw of South Wales
• Documenting the Depression