British studies at Tomsk State University

The article shows the origins of the folding of the British school of scientific research and its functioning at the Faculty of History of Tomsk State University as an element of the Tomsk School of International Studies. The formation of various trends in the study of British history and the current state of English studies are shown in the context of the transformation of the traditional understanding of the scientific school in the era of interdisciplinarity. The study of the history of Great Britain in Tomsk State University was laid in the early 1960s at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History under the leadership of Stanislav Seliverstovich Grigortsevich. His research in the field of British studies was continued by Boris Stepanovich Zhigalov. It can be said that in the 1960s-1980s there is a folding of British studies within the framework of the bloc "Britain and the Far East". At the turn of the 1980-1990s the new direction -the second direction in the field of British studies appeared - Great Britain and the Middle East under the leadership of new head of the Department of Modern, Cotemporary History and International Relations (the new name of the Department from 1993) Mikhail Ya-kovlevich Pelipas was designated. Not only the history of the United States, Britain and other countries and their policies in the Middle East region came in the field of his research attention, but also the history of concepts and ideas - for example, a number of publications and conferences were devoted to frontier topics actively developed in modern historiography. In the 2000s the focus in British studies shifted to the study of the position of Britain with regard to European integration and the history of the British Empire, the third direction "Britain, decolonization and European integration" was formed. This was largely due to the accumulated experience in the study of this material - the themes of the transformation of the British Empire into the Commonwealth, the influence of the disintegration of the world colonial system on the development of European integration in his works was addressed by M.Ya. Pelipas and his students Vladimir Petrovich Rumyantsev, Elena Vladimirovna Khakhalkina. In modern scientific and educational conditions, according to the author of the article, the division into Anglologists, Germanists and representatives of other scientific spheres is largely artificial. The line between Anglophone, Americanist, Europeanists, Orientalists and other specializations is very narrow, we constantly intersect in our scientific researches, sometimes we start to get involved in some other subjects - at the interface with our already established scientific interests, we start cooperating with colleagues, somеtimes this cooperation brings unexpected and very fruitful results. Interdisciplinarity in scientific research and methods of scientific knowledge has become the norm of modern academic life.

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