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Department of History

Modules

If you are a non-History student interested in History modules, you can find more information about applying for modules here.

Introduction

Please note that the modules listed are those we intend to run based on the latest information regarding staff availability, but that teaching staff availability can change, e.g. retirements, parental leave, or ill health, which may require the withdrawal of modules at a later point. If that is the case, students will be notified accordingly.

Please refer to the handbooks for information on policies concerning modules, including the registration process.

Syllabus

It is essential all students familiarise themselves with the degree course syllabi. This will inform you what modules you must take as core requirements of your degree as well as how many optional modules you may choose.

Module Lists

2025/2026 Modules

HI111 A History of the United States
Convenor: Rebecca Stone
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI113 Europe in the Making 1450-1800
Convenor: Peter Marshall
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI114 History and Politics of the Modern Middle East
Convenor: Katayoun Shafiee
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI115 Latin America: Themes and Problems
Convenor: Camillia Cowling
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI153 Making of the Modern World
Convenor: Liana Valerio
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI176 Mind, Body, and Society: The History of Medicine and Health
Convenor: Elise Smith
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI177 A History of Africa from 1800
Convenor: Doreen Kembabazi
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI178 Farewell to Arms? War in Modern European History, 1815-2015
Convenor: Pierre Purseigle
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI179 Deviance and Nonconformity in Pre-modern Europe
Convenor: Daniel Gettings & Camilo Uribe Botta
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI180 Britain in the Twentieth Century: A Social History
Convenor: Jack Bowman
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI200 Screening Subjects: Cinema, Science and Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Convenor: Anna Toropova
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI201 A Short History of Neoliberalism: Market, State and Human Nature, 1920 to Today
Convenor: Claudia Stein
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI275 The British Problem: Empire, Conflict and National Identities, 1558-1714
Convenor: Sarah Johanesen
Type
Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI277 Africa and the Cold War
Convenor: David Anderson
Type
Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI282 The Formation of American Culture, 1876-1929
Convenor: J. E. Smyth
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI290 History of Germany, from Bismarck to the Berlin Republic
Convenor: Colin Storer
Type
Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI299 Violence in Early Modern Europe
Convenor: Jonathan Davies
Type
Early Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2A6 Urban Catastrophes: Disasters and Urban Reconstruction from 1906 to the Present
Convenor: Pierre Purseigle
Type
Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2A8 The Formation of American Culture, 1929-present
Convenor: J. E. Smyth
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2B8 Caravans and Traders: Global Connections, 1200-1500
Convenor: Glauco Schettini
Type
Early Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2C6 Sex and the US Military: from Cold War to "War on Terror"
Convenor: Susan Carruthers
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2C9 War, Sex & Gender in the United States: from Civil War to WWII
Convenor: Susan Carruthers
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2D4 Race, Racism, and Resistance in Modern Britain
Convenor: Jack Bowman
Type
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2E9 Crossing Boundaries and Breaking Norms in the Medieval World
Convenor: Aysu Dincer Hajianastasis
Type
Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2G7 Contemporary Britain in Historical Perspective
Convenor: Jack Bowman
Type
Modern (WIISP - Warwick)
CATS
15
Term
Term 3
HI2H2 Venice in the Renaissance - Summer School Version
Convenor: Luca Mola
Type
Early Modern (WIISP - Venice)
CATS
15
Term
Term 3
HI2H3 Out of the Ghetto: Jewish History of Culture and Life from 1650 to Today
Convenor: Anna Hajkova
Type
Modern/Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2H4 A Global History of Sport
Convenor: Roger Fagge
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2H6 Freedom Fighting: Race, Slavery and War in the Revolutionary Caribbean, 1790-1812
Convenor: David Lambert
Type
Early Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2J6 China Transformed: From Early Modern to Modern Times
Convenor: Song-Chuan Chen
Type
Modern/Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2J7 The Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
Convenor: Colin Storer
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2J8 Entangled History: Ukraine and her Neighbours, from the Middle Ages to the Present
Convenor: Alexander Voronovici
Type
Modern/Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2J9 Everyday People: Writing Nineteenth-Century British and American Lives
Convenor: Lydia Plath
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2K1 How Did We Get to Where We Are Today? A Political History of the Contemporary World
Convenor: Benjamin Smith
Type
HI2K1
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2K2 Imperial Natures: Environments and Empires from c. 1450 to the Present
Convenor: Tom Simpson
Type
Modern/Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2K4 Music and History
Convenor: Tim Lockley & Roger Fagge
Type
Modern (WIISP - Venice)
CATS
15
Term
Term 3
HI2K7 Accidental President: Harry S Truman and Mid-Century America
Convenor: Rebecca Stone
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2K8 History of Global Organised Crime
Convenor: Benjamin Smith
Type
Modern (WIISP - Venice)
CATS
15
Term
Term 3
HI2K9 Historical Research
Convenor: Sophie Mann
Type
-
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2L1 The Displaced: Refugees in Modern Europe (1914-2015)
Convenor: Anca Cretu
Type
Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2L2 Life After Death: A History of Human Remains
Convenor: Elise Smith
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2L3 Espionage and Intelligence in Pre-Modern Europe
Convenor: Penny Roberts
Type
Early Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2L4 Anti-Colonial Resistance in the British Empire, 1600 to the Present
Convenor: April Jackson
Type
Modern/Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2L5 In Poor Health: The Sick Poor and Health Provisions, 1800s-1948
Convenor: Lynsey Cullen
Type
Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 3
HI31E Stalinism in Europe, 1928-1953
Convenor: Alexander Voronovici
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI31R The Elizabethan Reformation
Convenor: Peter Marshall
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI31X Feminism, Politics, and Social Change in Modern Britain
Convenor: Tara Morton
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI31Z Reinterpreting the Holocaust: Sexualities, Ethnicity, Class
Convenor: Anna Hajkova
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI32B Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion, 1952-60
Convenor: David Anderson
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI33Y The Historical Film: Global Perspectives in the Age of Netflix
Convenor: J.E. Smyth
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI390 The World of the Tavern in Early Modern Europe
Convenor: Beat Kümin
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI399 Britain in the 1970s: Between New Society and No Society
Convenor: Mathew Thomson
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3G5 Conquest, Conflict and Co-existence: Crusading and the Crusader Kingdoms
Convenor: Aysu Dincer Hajianastasis
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3G9 Venice in the Renaissance (VENICE STREAM ONLY)
Convenor: Jonathan Davies & Luca Mola
CATS
30
Term
Term 1
HI3H7 Foreign Bodies, Contagious Communities: Migration in the Modern World
Convenor: Roberta Bivins
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3J1 Empire and Energy in the Middle East
Convenor: Katayoun Shafiee
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3J3 Arts and Society in Early Modern Europe (VENICE STREAM ONLY)
Convenor: Luca Mola
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3K6 India and the Problem of Postcolonial Democracy
Convenor: Aditya Sarkar
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3S2 Dissertation
Convenor: Anca Cretu
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3S7 From the Blues to Hip Hop
Convenor: Roger Fagge
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3S8 Statues must fall? Remembering and Forgetting Slavery in the Atlantic World (VENICE STREAM ONLY)
Convenor: Liz Egan
CATS
30
Term
Term 2
HI3S9 Space, Place and Movement in Atlantic Slave Societies: Brazil, Cuba, and West Africa, 1791-1888
Convenor: Camillia Cowling
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3T1 Slavery and Slave Life in the American South, 1619-1865
Convenor: Liana Valerio
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3T3 The Early Modern Body
Convenor: Sophie Mann
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3T4 From Fireplace to Cyberspace: The Folklore of Europe from Prehistory to the Present
Convenor: Jonathan Davies & Colin Storer
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3T5 The Material Enlightenment
Convenor: Michael Bycroft
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3T6 Narcos: A Global History of the Drug Trade
Convenor: Benjamin Smith
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3T7 Religious Conflict and Civil War in France c. 1560-1600 (VENICE STREAM ONLY)
Convenor: Penny Roberts
CATS
30
Term
Term 2
HI3T8 Rebuilding the Body: The Pursuit of Perfection, 1861-2021 (VENICE STREAM ONLY)
Convenor: Roberta Bivins
CATS
30
Term
Term 2
HI3U1 Taiwan versus China: A Flashpoint for the Third World War?
Convenor: Song-Chuan Chen
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI907 Themes and Methods in Medical History
Convenor: Roberta Bivins
CATS
30
Terms
1
Type
Core (History of Medicine)
Moodle
No
Lecture Capture
No
HI961 Dissertation
Convenor: Claudia Stein
CATS
60
Terms
2
Type
Core
Moodle
TBC
Lecture Capture
TBC
HI989 Theories, Skills and Methods (TSM)
Convenor: Claudia Stein
CATS
30
Terms
1
Type
Core (History MA); Outside Option
Moodle
TBC
Lecture Capture
TBC
HI991 Matters of Life and Death: Topics in the Medical Humanities
Convenor: Roberta Bivins
CATS
30
Terms
2
Type
Core (History of Medicine); Option
Moodle
No
Lecture Capture
No
HI992 Themes in Early Modern History
Convenor: Michael Bycroft
CATS
30
Terms
1
Type
Core (Early Modern History)
Moodle
No
Lecture Capture
No
HI993 Themes and Approaches to the Historical Study of Religious Cultures
Convenor: Jonathan Davies
CATS
30
Terms
2
Type
Option
Moodle
No
Lecture Capture
No
HI995 Themes and Approaches to the Historical Study of Empire
Convenor: David Lambert
CATS
30
Terms
2
Type
Option
Moodle
No
Lecture Capture
No
HI996 Themes and Approaches to the Historical Study of Gender and Sexuality
Convenor: Liz Egan
CATS
30
Terms
2
Type
Option
Moodle
TBC
Lecture Capture
TBC
HI997 Themes in Global and Comparative History
Convenor: David Anderson
CATS
30
Terms
1
Type
Core (Global and Comparative History)
Moodle
TBC
Lecture Capture
TBC
HI998 Themes in Modern History
Convenor: Liz Egan
CATS
30
Terms
1
Type
Core (Modern History)
Moodle
No
Lecture Capture
No
HI9A1 20,000 Word Dissertation
Convenor: Roberta Bivins
CATS
60
Terms
2
Type
Core (History of Medicine)
Moodle
TBC
Lecture Capture
TBC

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