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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

2024/2025 Modules

HI242 Reformation, Politics & Rebellion in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Convenor: Beat Kümin
Type
Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI275 The British Problem: Empire, Conflict and National Identities, 1558-1714
Convenor: Naomi Pullin
Type
Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI276 Radical Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in Europe, 1918-1939
Convenor: Anca Cretu
Type
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI277 Africa and the Cold War
Convenor: David Anderson
Type
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI280 The Ottoman Empire and Europe, 1453-1922
Convenor: Henry Clements
Type
Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI281 Being Human: Human Nature from the Renaissance to Freud
Convenor: Claudia Stein & Sophie Mann
Type
Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI282 The Formation of American Culture, 1876-1929
Convenor: J. E. Smyth
Type
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2A8 The Formation of American Culture, 1929-present
Convenor: J. E. Smyth
Type
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2B1 America in Black and White? Contemporary US Race and Racism in Historical Context
Convenor: Lydia Plath
Type
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2B8 Caravans and Traders: Global Connections, 1200-1500
Convenor: Guido van Meersbergen
Type
Early Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2C1 Galleons and Galleys: Global Connections 1500-1800
Convenor: Guido van Meersbergen
Type
Early Modern
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2D2 Corruption in Britain and its Empire 1600-1850
Convenor: Mark Knights
Type
Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2D4 Race, Racism, and Resistance in Modern Britain
Convenor: Simon Peplow
Type
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2E1 Historiography I: Methods and Theories in their Historical Context, 1750-c.1990
Convenor: Christoph Mick
Type
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2E2 Historiography II: Recent and Emerging Trends in History Writing, 1990 to today
Convenor: Charles Walton
Type
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2E4 Research Project
Convenor: Natalie Hanley-Smith
Type
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2E7 A History of Modern Mexico
Convenor: Rosie Doyle
Type
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2E9 Crossing Boundaries and Breaking Norms in the Medieval World
Convenor: Penny Roberts
Type
Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2H4 A Global History of Sport
Convenor: Roger Fagge
Type
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 1
HI2H9 Surveillance States: Biometrics from the Border to the Bathroom
Convenor: Roberta Bivins
Type
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2J8 Entangled History: Ukraine and her neighbours, from the Middle Ages to the Present
Convenor: Christoph Mick
Type
Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2J9 Everyday People: Writing Nineteenth-Century British and American Lives
Convenor: Lydia Plath
Type
CATS
15
Term
Term 2
HI2K1 How Did We Get to Where We Are Today? A Political History of the Contemporary World
Convenor: Aileen Lichtenstein
Type
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2K2 Imperial Natures: Environments and Empires from the Little Ice Age to the Great Acceleration (c. 1450 to the present)
Convenor: Thomas Simpson
Type
Early Modern
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI2K4 Music and History
Convenor: Tim Lockley & Roger Fagge
Type
WIISP (Venice)
CATS
15
Term
Term 3
HI2K7 Accidental President: Harry S Truman and Mid-Century America
Convenor: Rebecca Stone
Type
CATS
15
Term
Term 1
HI2K8 History of Global Organised Crime
Convenor: Benjamin Smith
Type
WIISP (Venice)
CATS
15
Term
Term 3
HI31J The French Revolution, 1774-1799
Convenor: Charles Walton
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI31R The Elizabethan Reformation
Convenor: Sarah Johanesen
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI31Z Reinterpreting the Holocaust: Sexualities, Ethnicity, Class
Convenor: William Jones
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
HI34I Medicine, Empire and the Body, c.1750-1914
Convenor: Elise Smith
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI399 Britain in the 1970s: Between New Society and No Society
Convenor: Mathew Thomson
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3G9 Venice in the Renaissance (VENICE STREAM ONLY)
Convenor: Jonathan Davies & Luca Mola
CATS
30
Term
Term 1
HI3H6 Postwar: Aftermaths of World War II
Convenor: Susan Carruthers
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
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 & Livia Lupi
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3J7 Socialist Bodies: Dreams and Realities of the Physical in Soviet Russia
Convenor: Jake Robertson
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3J9 Whiteness: An American History
Convenor: Lydia Plath
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3K2 A Global History of Travel: Odyssey to Aeroplane
Convenor: Guido van Meersbergen
CATS
30
Term
Term 2
HI3S2 Dissertation
Convenor: Simon Peplow
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3S3 China Travel: Seeing the Chinese Empire Through Travellers Eyes (VENICE STREAM ONLY)
Convenor: Anne Gerritsen
CATS
30
Term
Term 2
HI3S6 Science, Technology, and Global Politics, 1900 to Present
Convenor: James Poskett
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3S7 From the Blues to Hip Hop
Convenor: Roger Fagge
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 (VENICE STREAM ONLY)
Convenor: Jonathan Davies
CATS
30
Term
Full Year
HI3T5 Value in the Age of Reason
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
HI907 Themes and Methods in Medical History
Convenor: Elise Smith
CATS
30
Terms
1
Type
Core (History of Medicine)
Moodle
No
Lecture Capture
No
HI961 Dissertation
Convenor: Colin Storer
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: Elise Smith
CATS
30
Terms
2
Type
Core (History of Medicine); Option
Moodle
No
Lecture Capture
No
HI992 Themes in Early Modern History
Convenor: Mark Knights
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: Naomi Pullin
CATS
30
Terms
2
Type
Option
Moodle
No
Lecture Capture
No
HI994 Themes and Approaches to the Historical Study of Consumption
Convenor: Susan Carruthers
CATS
30
Terms
2
Type
Option
Moodle
No
Lecture Capture
No
HI995 Themes and Approaches to the Historical Study of Empire
Convenor: Anne Gerritsen
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: Christoph Mick
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