The Cultural History of the Night in Britain since 1200

1.5 credits · Undergraduate

A history of the changing experiences of the night in Britain. Topics include the social and cultural activities of people during the evening and the nighttime, the nature of sleep and dreaming, the dangers posed by fellow human beings to one another (robbers, burglars, graverobbers), changing ideas of supernatural threats (ghosts, witches, werewolves, vampires) and finally, the taming of night by electrical light, modern police forces and Halloween.