Move Over, Victoria: Billy Shears Is Here

The course catalogue lists History 144b, "England in the Twentieth Century," as "an investigation of political, social, and intellectual change from the Edwardian era to the Welfare State."

Peter D. L. Stansky, assistant professor of History and the course instructor, evidently takes intellectual change seriously. The last item on the reading list, which includes Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, and E.M. Forster, is "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." And it is required.