Course summary

Designed by students, for students, this innovative programme gives students the opportunity to specialise in their chosen field, working alongside our world-class historians. They will be trained in the latest research methods, and gain invaluable employability skills and workplace experience through our unique internship programme. We are looking forward to welcoming a new generation of MA students to the School of History.

• The most research intensive MA History available with intensive research skills and historiographical training, and an advanced historical research project that equips you for Masters’ level research;

• The opportunity to specialise in one of several key subject streams in which you will ‘Master the field’ and write a dissertation under the guidance of expert academics. Streams may include: Modern British History; Women, Gender, Sexualities; Modern European History; Modern American History; Global Histories of Empire and Decolonisation; the History of the Medieval Islamic World; the History of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe; the History of Material and Visual Culture; and Histories of Science, Medicine, and Emotions;

• A unique internship option, which will give invaluable ‘real-world’ experience and transferable employability skills, through a placement with one of our public history/heritage partners;

• A guaranteed place on MA History for any student who attains a 2.1 or above on a single or joint History BA Honours degree awarded from Queen Mary and who wishes to continue (subject to final Admissions checks and programme availability and for entry in September 2024);

• The option of completing all MA components, including the dissertation, by early summer, facilitating entry into the job market.