This course is concerned with cultural and social change in Britain from the early 1900s through the high point of modernity in the inter-war years, to the late or post modern society of the century's end. It is organised around key events and changes across the century: the impact of the two World Wars; feminism, sexuality and women's place; cinema, radio and mass consumption; the affluent years of the 1950s; post war immigration and race; permissiveness and protest in the 1960s; Thatcherism and 'late capitalism' in the 1980s and 1990s; heritage and the consumption of history. The course examines the social, cultural and personal impact of these changes and asks how they helped to (re)shape notions of family, gender, community, class, and Britishness. It also investigates how the British past itself has been packaged, periodised and presented in film, novels, political texts and heritage movements.