English Speaking countries:

History and Culture

Dr. Paula Garca Ramrez
2017-18
1st semester
Cultural Studies
The meaning of cultural studies
Different approaches to cultural studies
List ten English-Speaking countries
Define mother tongue, second language,
and co-official language. Write some
examples.
When you are presented a historical fact,
what questions are necessary to ask? Why?
List five holidays and important events
from English Speaking countries.
English Speaking
countries
The Commonwealth of Nations

A rich linguistic frame:

India: Hindi 30%, English 31%, Bengali,
Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi,
Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu,
Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi (all
official); Hindi/Urdu; 1,600 languages+
dialects.
English Speaking
countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_w
here_English_is_an_official_language

World englishes: why English is an international

language today
http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQNFaID1Iw&featur
e=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg8jS-AMyMo

24 accents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdp
M&feature=related
Practical Session (1): Rule
Britannia
When Britain first, at Heaven's
command,
Arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sung this strain:
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves."
The nations, not so blest as thee,
Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall:
While thou shalt flourish great and
free,
The dread and envy of them all.
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves."
Still more majestic shalt thou
rise,
More dreadful, from each
foreign stroke:
As the loud blast that tears the
skies,
Serves but to root thy native
oak.
"Rule, Britannia, rule the
waves;
Britons never will be slaves.
Thee haughty tyrants ne'er
shall tame:
All their attempts to bend thee
down,
Will but arouse thy generous
flame;
But work their woe, and thy
Rule Britannia: a poem by
James Thomson

To thee belongs the rural reign;

Thy cities shall with commerce shine:
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine.
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves."

The Muses, still with freedom found,

Shall to thy happy coast repair:
Blest isle! with matchless beauty
crown'd,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves."

Rule Britannia : Poem by James

Thomson and music by Thomas Arne
(1740) :
Practical Session (2):
Quizzes

How British you are

https://
www.theguardian.com/uk/blog/quiz/2012/jul/05
/uk-citizenship-test
https://
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/quiz/2012/
jul/02/how-british-are-you-citizenship-test
Bibliography: websites
Historia de Gran Bretaa e Irlanda:

A digital library of texts and information about people, places and businesses from the 12th century
onwards.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

A full text of Twentieth Century British History.

http://www3.oup.co.uk/tweceb/contents/
British and UK studies.
http://www.academicinfo.net/histuk.html

British History 1100-1800. A-Z Index, titles, descriptions, etc.

http://bubl.ac.uk/link/b/britishhistory1100-1800.htm

British History and the Census.

http://chcc.gla.ac.uk/ie index.php
British History divided into time periods from the stone age to the 20th century.
http://www.great-britain.co.uk/history/history.htm

British History from Ancient History to the present day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/index.shtml
British Prehistory and the Anglo Saxon Chronicles reporting ancient British History.
http://www.webmesh.co.uk/britishprehistory.htm

Features timelines, narrative histories, original source documents, important texts, places, events and
people of British History.
http://www.britannia.com/history/
websites
Historia de los Estados Unidos de Amrica:
American History Archives.
http://www.LibraryofCongress.gov

American Memory from the Library of Congress.

http://www.memory.loc.gov/
American Social History Project.
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/

Center for Social and Economic Policy. Historical Statistics of the United States.
http://csep.ucr.edu/HSUS/HSUS.html
Documents about the New Deal.
http://newdeal.feri.org
Documents for the study of American History.
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs/index.html
Extensive website focusing primarily on how newspapers and the press covered events in American History.
http://www.historybuff.com/

Milestone documents of American History, presented by the National Archives and Records Administration.
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/

United States Congress Information.

http://www.congresslink.org/

United States National Archives & Records Administration.

http://www.nara.gov