1. Select a topic from the topic list and sign up for the topic on the sign-up sheet posted outside UH 301.40. If the topic you have selected has already been selected by another student, select a different topic.
2. Research the topic for which you have signed up.
3. Create a MLA-style bibliography of five sources on the topic that are available at Cal State,
include call numbers/location information in brackets following each MLA-style citation.
Sample Modified MLA-style Entry
Colley, Linda. "John Wilkes and Englishness." Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837. New
Haven: Yale UP, 1992. 105-17. [DA 485 C65 1992]
4. Read the sources on the topic and discover the `who, what, why, how, when' or basic facts about the topic.
5. Reflect on your new knowledge of this cultural topic and determine its role in the cultural life of the British people then.
6. Relate your topic to present-day life. Is the custom/game/plant/food still popular? Why or why not? Is the business, club, society, or periodical still operating or publishing? Why or why not? Are the person's contributions to cultural life still considered important? Why or why not?
7. Draft up a brief statement of three parts: (1) what or who this cultural topic is about, (2) what was the topic's role in the historical past (the relevant years of the 1660-1785 period), and (3) why or why not the topic is still important or popular today. Your statement should be about 300-500 words. Revise your statement so that it is clear, coherent, grammatically correct, and stylistically interesting. Use your own words in your statement. If you feel an author or original source is worthy of citing, you may do so, but do not use more than two short quotations of forty words or less.
8. Photocopy one image that you feel is the most interesting one relevant to the topic.
9. Assemble the final report: your brief statement, bibliography, and photocopy. Proofread your report for last minute errors.
10. Make a second copy of your report and turn both in on the assigned day, May 29th.
(A) Customs/Games/New Plants/Foods
Inoculation for small pox
gibbeting
indentured or bonded servants
wrecking
Boxing Day
ballet
opera
tea drinking
boxing
bear-baiting
cock-fighting
gaming hells
fox hunting
horse racing
tooth-drawer
dueling
coaching inns
azaleas
rhododendrons
camellias
masquerades
microscopes
plum pudding
bubble and squeak
syllabub
wigs
corsets
pineapples
wassailing
Candlemas
Plough Monday
Shrove Tuesday
Michaelmas
Swan Upping
(B) Business, Clubs, Societies, Periodicals
Coffee Houses, first opened 1652
Chocolate Shops, first opened 1657
The Royal Society, founded 1660
Vauxhall Gardens, opened 1661
Drury Lane Theater, founded 1663
Chelsea Hospital, founded 1692
Bank of England, founded 1694
Bank of Scotland, founded 1695
London Stock Exchange, founded 1698
Society for the Promoting of Christian Knowledge, founded 1698
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, founded 1701
Royal Ascot, begun 1711
Boxing Champion of England, begun 1719
The Racing Calendar, started 1727
Covent Garden, Royal Opera House, opened 1732
Ranelagh Gardens, opened 1742
Bow Street Runners, founded 1748
The British Museum, founded 1753
Broadwood Piano Makers, founded
1753
Axminster Carpet Company, founded 1755
[See also The History of Carpet
page]
Wedgwood China Company,
founded 1760
Brooks's Club, founded 1764
Almack's Assembly Rooms, first opened 1765
Tattersall's Horse Auction Yard, opened 1766
The Royal Academy, founded 1768
Astley's Royal Amphitheatre, begun as a riding school 1768
Christies' Auction House, founded 1776
Bass Beer, founded 1777
The Royal Mail Coach System, begun 1784
The Times, founded 1785
(C) People
Robert Boyle (1627-1691),
chemist
Christopher Wren
(1632-1723),architect [see also this
site and this one too on one of his
buildings]
Claude Duval (1643-70), highwayman [see this
site]
William Hogarth (1679-1764), painter
George Frederick Handel (1685-1759), composer
Antonio "Canaletto" Canal (1697-1768), painter
Dick Turpin (1706-39), highwayman [see this
site]
Thomas Arne (1710-1778), songwriter
David Garrick (1717-1779), actor
Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779), furniture maker
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), painter
Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), scientist
George Romney (1734-1802), painter
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), musician
Angelica Kauffman (1740-1807), painter
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), writer
Elisabeth Vignee Le Brun (1755-1842),
painter [See also this
site]
Sarah Kemble Siddons (1755-1831), actress
James Gillray (1757-1815), caricaturist
Auguste Vestris (1760-1842), dancer
Sir Edmund Hoyle (d. 1769), card player and gamester