• The new Historical Research core module
• Details of syllabi for intermediate years
• 15 CAT modules
• WIISP modules
• Pre-approved outside option modules
• Options for joint honours students
• Options for students on the Venice programme

A recording of the briefing will be made available on this page after the session.

The whole of Floor 3 will be filled with posters representing our different modules. Staff will also be there to answer your questions and tell you more about their modules.

Please note that some staff teaching in 2025-26 may not be present at the module fair. Where this is the case, there will be other members of staff who can answer your questions.

You can also meet representatives from our Black History Student Network and Widening Participation Student Network.

We encourage you to browse the whole fair and think about a wide range of modules. If you're wondering where you can find a particular module, please see the Floorplan.

We encourage you to browse the whole fair and think about a wide range of modules. If you're wondering where you can find a particular module, please see below:

Area 1 – FAB3.57

HI2H6-15 Freedom Fighting: Race, Slavery and War in the Revolutionary Caribbean, 1790-1812 - David Lambert

HI3S8-30 Statues must fall? Remembering and forgetting slavery in the Atlantic world - David Lambert

HI277-30 Africa and the Cold War - David Anderson

HI32B-30 Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion, 1952-1960 - David Anderson

HI2L4 Anti-Colonial Resistance in the British Empire, 1600 to the Present - April Jackson

HI3U1 Taiwan versus China: A Flashpoint for the Third World War?

HI2J6-30 China Transformed: From Early Modern to Modern Times

HI2K2-30 Imperial Natures: Environments and Empires from the Little Ice Age to the Great Acceleration (c. 1450 to the present) - Tom Simpson

HI3K6-30 India And The Problem of Postcolonial Democracy

HI2B8-15 Caravans and Traders: Global Connections, 1200-1500

HI2C1-15 Galleons and Galleys: Global Connections 1500-1800

HI3T8-30 Rebuilding the Body: The Pursuit of Perfection, 1861-2021 - Roberta Bivins

HI3H7-30 Foreign Bodies, Contagious Communities: Migration in the Modern World - Roberta Bivins

HI3J1-30 Empire and Energy in the Middle East - Katayoun Shafiee

HI200 - Science, Cinema and Medicine in the Twentieth Century - Anna Toropova

HI3S9-30 Space, Place and Movement in Atlantic Slave Societies: Brazil, Cuba, and the US, 1791-1888 - Camillia Cowling

Area 2 – Mezzanine and Balcony

HI201 A Short History of Neoliberalism: Market, State and Human Nature, 1920 to Today - Claudia Stein

HI2L2-15 Life After Death: A History of Human Remains - Elise Smith

HI2L5-15 In Poor Health: The Sick Poor and Health Provision 1800s-1948 - Lynsey Cullen

HI2C6-15 Sex and the US Military: from Cold War to “War on Terror” - Susan Carruthers

HI2C9-15 War, Sex & Gender in the United States: from Civil War to WWII - Susan Carruthers

HI2A6-30 Urban Catastrophes: Disasters and Urban Reconstruction from 1906 to the Present - Pierre Purseigle

HI2K7-15 Accidental President: Harry S Truman and Mid-Century America - Rebecca Stone

HI2J7-15 The Weimar Republic, 1918-1933

HI282-15 The Formation of American Culture, 1876-1929 - J.E. Smyth

HI2A8-15 The Formation of American Culture, 1929 to the Present - J.E. Smyth

HI33Y-30 The Historical Film: Global Perspectives in the Age of Netflix - J.E. Smyth

HI2K1-30 How did we get to where we are today? A political history of the contemporary world - Benjamin Smith

HI3T6-30 Narcos: A Global History of the Drug Trade - Benjamin Smith

HI2K8-15 WIISP History of Global Organised Crime - Benjamin Smith

HI2J9-15 Everyday People: Writing Nineteenth-Century British and American Lives - Lydia Plath

Outside Options Intermediate IATL - Lydia Plath

Outside Options Final Year - Lydia Plath

Outside Options Intermediate Arts 1 of 2 - Lydia Plath

Outside Options Intermediate Arts 2 of 2 - Lydia Plath

HI3T1-30 Slavery and Slave Life in the American South, 1619-1865 - Tim Lockley

HI3S7-30 From the Blues to Hip Hop - Roger Fagge

HI2H4-15 A Global History of Sport - Roger Fagge / Tim Lockley

HI2K4-15 WIISP Music and History - Roger Fagge / Tim Lockley

Area 3 – FAB3.60

HI2E9-30 Crossing Boundaries and Breaking Norms in the Medieval World

HI3G5-30 Conquest, Conflict and Co-existence: Crusading and the Crusader Kingdoms

HI3T7-30 Religious Conflict and Civil War in France, c.1560-1600 - Penny Roberts

HI2L3-15 Espionage and Intelligence in Premodern Europe - Penny Roberts

HI390-30 The World of the Tavern in Early Modern Europe - Beat Kümin

HI2K9-30 Historical Research - Sophie Mann

HI3T3-30 The Early Modern Body - Sophie Mann

HI3T5-30 The Material Enlightenment - Michael Bycroft

HI3T4-30 From Fireplace to Cyberspace: The Folklore of Europe from Prehistory to the Present - Jonathan Davies

HI299-15 Violence in Early Modern Europe - Jonathan Davies

HI3J3-30 Arts and Society in Early Modern Europe

HI2H2-15 WIISP Venice in the Renaissance

HI275-30 The British Problem: Empire, Conflict and National Identities, 1588-1714 - Naomi Pullin

HI31R-30 The Elizabethan Reformation

Area 4 – FAB3.35

HI290-30 History of Germany, from Bismarck to the Berlin Republic

HI2L1-30 The Displaced: Refugees in Modern Europe (1914-2015) - Anca Cretu

HI2H3-30 Out of the Ghetto: Jewish history of culture and life from 1650 to today – William Jones

HI31Z-30 Reinterpreting the Holocaust: Sexualities, Ethnicity, Class – William Jones

HI2J8-30 Entangled History: Ukraine and her neighbours, from the Middle Ages to the Present - Christoph Mick

HI31E-30 Stalinism in Europe, 1928-1953 - Christoph Mick

HI31X Feminism, Politics, and Social Change in Modern Britain - Tara Morton

HI399-30 Britain in the 1970s: Between New Society and No Society - Mathew Thomson

HI2G7-15 WIISP Contemporary Britain in Historical Perspective - Mathew Thomson

HI3S2-30 Dissertation - Simon Peplow (Final Year Director)

HI2D4-30 Race, Racism and Resistance in Modern Britain - Simon Peplow

• The new Historical Research core module - Sophie Mann or Lydia Plath
• WIISP modules - Module convenors. WIISP will also have a stand at the Faculty Module Fair in the Agora.
• Pre-approved outside option modules - Lydia Plath or Tim Lockley
• Options for joint honours students - Becca Stone
• Options for students on the Venice programme - Lydia Plath or Jonathan Davies

You can browse our range of modules here

You are welcome to contact staff directly via email or office hours to ask them about their module.

A recording of the briefing for current first years will be made available on this page after the session.

There will also be a Faculty Module Fair taking place on Wednesday 5th March in the Agora from 1-4pm. It is an opportunity to speak to staff from across the faculty about how modules work in other departments, if you are interested in taking an outside option.

You can find out more about the Faculty Module Fair here.