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 You take the compulsory modules then choose one of three module pairings: 'Early Medieval History, (c. 400 - c. 1050)' and 'Late Medieval History (c. 1050 -b c. 1450)', 'The Rise of the United States Pt. 1' and 'The Rise of the United States Pt. 2' or 'The Making of Modern Europe' and 'The Making of Modern Britain'. Then you choose 2 more optional modules from the remaining list. Compulsory modules currently include the following Controversial Histories History Makers Optional modules: Early Medieval History, (c. 400 - c. 1050) Late Medieval History, (c. 1050 - c. 1450) The Rise of the United States Pt. 1 The Rise of the United States Pt. 2 The Making of Modern Europe A Global History of Empire Histories of Health and Medicine since 1800 Renaissance to the Enlightenment The Making of Modern Britain War and Society in Europe, c. 1789 - 1945 Stage 2 Compulsory modules currently include the following The Medieval World: Power and Faith The Modern World: Revolution and Crisis Undergraduate Dissertation: Design and Planning Optional modules: 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 Stage 3 Compulsory modules: Dissertation Optional modules: 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