BA Ancient History and HistoryV117 V117

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1 Core modules include:

• Greek History: War, Society and Change in the Archaic Age
• Roman History: The Rise and Fall of the Republic
• Directed Study in History
• Landmarks in History 1
• Landmarks in History 2

Optional modules include:

• Ancient Song
• Texts, Readers, and Writers
• Latin at an appropriate level, from beginner to expert
• Ancient Greek at an appropriate level, from beginner to expert
• Approaches to History
• One or more modules from another department

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Core modules include:

• Greek History: Archaic Age to Alexander
• Roman History: From Republic to Empire
• Prospects for Classicists and Ancient Historians
• Women of the Medieval World
• Crusading in the High Middle Ages, 1095-1291
• Power and Culture in Capetian France, 987-1270
• Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
• Europe 1450-1600: Religion, culture and belief
• Monarchy and Succession in sixteenth-century England
• Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
• Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714

Optional modules include:

• Ancient Epic
• Ancient Drama
• Latin at an appropriate level, from beginner to expert
• Ancient Greek at an appropriate level, from beginner to expert
• Work placement for Classicists and Ancient Historians
• Egypt & Greece
• Greek Comedy
• Modern Greek literature
• Ancient World on Film
• Roman Satire
• Voices from the Roman army
• Ancient Sport
• Classical Mythology in the Renaissance
• Museum History, Policy and Ethics
• Museum Communication and Interpretation
• A modern foreign language
• Practice of Entrepreneurship
• Museum History, Policy and Ethics
• Cradle to Coffin: Living and Dying in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720
• Europe 1450-1600: Religion, culture and belief
• Crusading in the High Middle Ages, 1095-1291
• Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
• Under the Red Flag: Labour and British Politics, 1880-1939
• Warrior Nation: Prussia and Germany, 1740-1945
• Power, Poverty and Protest: The Social History of Rural England, 1800-2000
• Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
• The Colonial Experience: Africa, 1879-1980
• Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
• Museum Communication and Interpretation
• My Mother's Sin and other Stories
• Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
• Women of the Medieval World
• American History: From Colonial times to the late Twentieth Century
• Europe in the Twentieth Century
• Rebel Girls - the influence of radical women 1795-1919
• Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient World
• Themes and Issues in History
• Work placement for Classicists and Ancient Historians
• ‘The Greatest of Terrestrial Kingdoms’: France at the crossroads of the world in the High Middle Ages
• One or more modules from another subject

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Core modules include:

• Dissertation (either in Ancient History or in History)

Optional modules include:

• Latin at an appropriate level, from beginner to expert
• Ancient Greek at an appropriate level, from beginner to expert
• Anatolia & the Aegean
• Alexander to Cleopatra: History & Culture of the Hellenistic World
• Digital Silchester
• Transformations of Helen
• Ancient Biography
• Greek Art & Drama
• Xenophon’s Anabasis
• Carthage – The Rise and Fall
• Ancient Egyptian Language and Hieroglyphs
• Athenian Political Thought
• Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
• From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and eugenics in European society, 1859-1945
• Gothic: Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
• Industrialization and its Discontents: City, Country and Utopia in England, 1800-2000
• Race, Ethnicity and citizenship in America
• The Struggle for a New Civilisation, 1931-1941
• Witches, Heretics and Social Outcasts: Europe and its Outsiders c.1250-1550
• Battleaxes and Benchwarmers’: Early female MPs 1919-1931
• France and Europe since 1945
• Ireland and the English in the middle ages
• La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
• Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
• Political Extremism in Britain between the Wars
• Popes and Emperors: Contests for Power in the Central Middle Ages
• Preparation for Dissertation in Classics
• Revolution in Britain and Ireland: 1603-1649
• The Sixties: Politics and Culture in a Divided World
• The United States and the Cold War
• Transformations of Helen

Please note that all modules are subject to change.