Attn First Years / plus HCJ generally - CIVILIZATION series now on You Tube

First Year HCJ (part two) content has been slightly re-arranged. The times of lectures and seminars are not affected but we have altered the content and the reading for a series of good, but boring, reasons. You will give the seminar papers in the same weeks in this coming semester as in the previous semester. The details and reading are here. All the reading is either online or is Russell (which is also on line - at Google Books). Details here.

By the way a great You Tube discovery is the magnificent history of art series CIVILIZATION by Kenneth Clark. It was broadcast in the 70s - when there was stuff on television you would watch without actually sustaining brain damage - and as a sort of talking coffee table book just showing you all the significant artworks and literary of (western) european culture from a solidly conservative point of view it is hard to beat. Actually the endless episodes about the art and culture of the middle ages and the gothic period (which was Clark's specialism - he himself was a genuine Tory aristocrat and actually lived in a castle with suits of armour and stone staircases and so on). The fall of Rome stuff is good - then it picks up well on the Renaissance and Humanism (there's a brilliant episode on Giotto) and is pretty good on The Enlightenment. He ignores the English Civil was (unsurprisingly) but likes the counter-reformation and the baroque papacy. But he is really, really good on the Romantics and the whole victorian era because - basically - he was a living, breathing, walking talking victorian relic himself. Track it all down on You Tube - very good stuff.