Course summary

This Masters offers courses across all periods from medieval to late modern, focusing on Scotland, Britain, Europe and America with increasing global perspective. You’ll study historical skills and methods and produce a research dissertation based on primary sources. Our excellent research directs our postgraduate teaching so you'll explore cutting-edge topics with leading experts in their fields. WHY THIS PROGRAMME

• Glasgow offers exceptional resources for the historian, including our university museum, The Hunterian, Scotland’s oldest public museum with over a million items, and our library, one of Europe’s oldest and largest university libraries, with extensive collections from the medieval to the present.

• The Hunterian provides access to primary source materials in fields such as fine art, numismatics and ethnography, while the library offers collections like the Baillie Collection, which contains printed medieval and modern sources on Scottish, Irish, and English history.

• You will have the opportunity to develop research skills across a range of themes, including gender, slavery, war and strategic security, cultural and political history, material culture, and transnational developments, with a wide range of optional courses allowing you to follow your own interests.

• You are also encouraged to approach your subject matter from an interdisciplinary perspective, with all of the benefits of studying at one of the world's top 60 universities for arts and humanities (THE World Subject Rankings).

• One core course

• Five optional courses

• You’ll also produce a dissertation.