Modules

The following modules are what students typically study, but this may change year to year in response to new developments and innovations. Stage 1: Compulsory modules currently include the following: Understanding Military History; Battles in Military History; Redcoats: The British Army and Society c. 1660-1902; The British Army in the Age of Total War. Optional modules may include the following: A Global History of Empire; Histories of Health and Medicine since 1800; Renaissance to the Enlightenment; War and Society in Europe, c. 1789 - 1945. Stage 2: Compulsory modules currently include the following: The Modern World: Revolution and Crisis; Undergraduate Dissertation: Design and Planning; Armies at War, 1914-1918. Optional modules may include the following: A History of Eastern Europe in 10 Objects; Armies at War, 1792-1815; Blitzkrieg to Baghdad: Armoured Warfare in the Theory, Practice and Imagery, 1916-2003; Cholera to Climate Change: Environment and Society in Modern Britain; Churchill's Armies: The Armies of the British Empire and the Second World War; Civil War America, 1848-1877; Conquest and Resistance in Southern Africa, 1750-1918; Europe in Extremes: Communism, Fascism and Nazism, 1917-1939; From Crisis to Revolution: France 1774-1799; How The West was Won (or Lost): The American West in the 19th Century; Marvels, Monsters and Freaks 1780-1920; Modern German History since 1918; Surgery, Science and Society since 1750; Telegraph to Television: War and the British Media, 1853-1945; The Art of Death: Representations, Rituals and Records in Medieval Europe; The Cold War; The Crusades; The German Wars of Unification, c. 1813-1871; The Imperial Presidency: U.S. Foreign Policy from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama; 'The Jewel in the Crown': India and the Making of Imperial Britain; Vikings: A Global Saga; Violence and Justice in Medieval Europe (c. 500 - c. 1400); War and Modern Medicine 1850-1950; Warriors: Myths and Migrants: The Early Medieval Kingdoms. Stage 3: Compulsory modules currently include the following: Undergraduate History Dissertation. Optional modules may include the following: Fight The Power: African American History from Jim Crow to Black Lives Matter; From Buffalo Bill to Bison Burgers: The American West in the 20th Century; Global Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Modern Era; Gothic Art: Image and Imagination in Europe; Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes: A History of the Modern Body (1800-1950); To Do No Harm: Medical Ethics and Patient Rights in the Modern World, 1800-2000; From 'Madness' to Mindfulness: Mental Health since 1850; Terror, Murder and Bloodshed: The Renaissance in Italy and beyond, c. 1400- c. 1550; The American Revolution; Cultural History of the Great War: Britain, France and Germany in Comparison; The Hundred Years' War, c. 1337-1453; The Nature of Command; Capitalism, Classes, Cultures & Conflicts; Conquests, Cultures and Identities: England AD 800-1100; From Mercenaries to Freedom Fighters: Transnational Soldiering, c. 1700-2020; Ireland: A Military History since 1689; Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa; Loyalists: The Wrong Side of the American Independence; Making Room for Medicine: Medical Space, Environment and Health; Napoleon and the World, 1799-1815; Saints, Relics & Churches in Medieval Europe, C. 500-1500; Sex, Health and Deviance in Britain since 1800; The Carolingians and the Invention of Order; The Eternal Nazi: Global Legacies of the Third Reich; The International History of the Vietnam Wars; The Legacy of the Second World War; The Renaissance: Nature, Magic and Knowledge; The Spanish Second Republic and Civil War, 1931-1939; War, Peace and Diplomacy in the Late Middle Ages, c. 1200 - c. 1450.