History BA Honours (V100)

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

• HIS1030 Evidence and Argument
• HIS1025 World Empires
• HIS1029 Varieties of History

You choose at least two modules or up to three modules from the list below:

• HIS1027 European History
• HIS1044 Aspects of British History
• HIS1046 The History of the Americas

You may choose up to 20 credits of modules from elsewhere in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

You take at least one module from each of the following lists:

• CAH2006 In Alexander's Footsteps: Classical and Hellenistic Empire
• HIS2012 Clash of Civilisations: Islam, the Crusades and the Mongol Invasions (c 750-1300)
• HIS2072 Anglo-Saxon England: from Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, 410-1066
• HIS2078 Approaches to the History of Western Medicine
• HIS2103 The Dark Ages: Early Medieval Europe and its Neighbours, 500-900
• HIS2085 Pre-Columbian and Spanish America
• HIS2140 Survey History of Japan
• ARA2080 The Archaeology of Medieval Europe: AD 400-1500
• ARA2091 Archaeologies of the Roman Empire: The Roman World from Augustus to Justinian
• CAH2207 Caesar's Gift: Rome under the Emperors

• HIS2123 The Family, Sex and Society in Early Modern England
• HIS2131 American Slavery, American Freedom: Black and White America in the Age of Revolutions
• HIS2003 Religion & Politics in Tudor England, c. 1470-1558
• HIS2084 Europe's Reformations
• HIS2132 The Criminal Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Convicts and Rebels
• HIS2114 Death, Dying & the Dead
• HIS2234 Atlantic Slave Trade 1450-1870
• HIS2238 Disease in Society ca. 1700-1900 Responses, Representations and Experiences

• HIS2133 Society and Politics in Colonial India, 1880s-1947
• HIS2055 The Later Russian Empire 1796-1917
• HIS2212 History and Memory in the United States
• HIS2239 Middle East/Ottoman Empire
• HIS2234 Atlantic Slave Trade 1450-1870
• HIS2238 Disease in Society in England ca. 1700-1900 Responses, Representations and Experiences
• LAS2030 Comparative History of Hispano-America and Brazil: from Independence to the Mexican Revolution (1789/1810-1917)

In addition, you may take a maximum of three modules selected from the following:

• HIS2087 A Civilian's War: the Second World War, 1939-1945
• HIS2235 The Soviet Experiment
• HIS2082 Twentieth-century Spain 1898-2004
• HIS2124 A history of contemporary Britain
• HIS2212 History and Memory in the United States
• HIS2219 Oral history and memory
• HIS2239 Middle East/Ottoman Empire

You may choose the following modules or up to 40 credits of modules from elsewhere in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences:

• NCL2007 Career Development for second year students
• NCL2100 Developing Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Employability

You may undertake the Erasmus programme which would entail undertaking 60 credits during an entire semester in an Erasmus-partner institution.

• HIS2100 Erasmus Student exchange
• HIS2101 Erasmus Student exchange

• HIS3000 Reading History
• HIS3020 Writing History

You choose either one of the following modules or a 20-credit module from elsewhere in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

• HIS3030 History and Society OR
• NCL3007 Career Development for Final-year Students

You also choose 40 credits (20 credits in each semester AND at least one HIS-coded module) from the following list:

• ARA3013 Early medieval Britain: Anglo-Saxons, Celts, Vikings
• ARA3016 The Archaeology of Byzantium and its Neighbours
• ARA3021 Frontier Communities of Roman Britain
• ARA3031 Historical Archaeology of Britain 1500-Present
• CAH3033 The Fall of the Roman Republic
• CAH3005 City of Athens: Power, Society and Culture
• CAH3010 The Life and Afterlife of Alexander the Great
• CAH3025 Celluloid II
• HIS3035 Elizabeth I: the Politics of Religion
• HIS3131 China in Revolution, 1919-1976
• HIS3134 The Great Patriotic War and its Aftermath
• HIS3135 The Nazi New Order
• HIS3138 Art of empires, 1750-1850
• HIS3181 The American Civil War, 1861-1865
• HIS3203 Madness, Nerves and Narratives in Georgian Britain, c. 1714-1830
• HIS3204 The English Revolution, 1640-1660
• HIS3205 Fascism in Italy, 1914-1945
• HIS3206 The Irish Revolution, 1879-1923
• HIS3212 Reconstruction and the New South, 1865-1914
• HIS3218 Hogarth and his life in Georgian London
• HIS3219 Living Together: Christians, Muslims and Jews in Medieval Iberia
• HIS3222 Jarrow Crusade
• HIS3227 Latin America Through the Foreign Gaze
• HIS3229 The Spanish Second Republic and Civil War, 1931-1939
• HIS3240 Civil Rights in America, 1948-1975
• HIS3278 England, 1714-1820: The Birth of a Consumer Society
• HIS3279 Popular Politics and Reform in Britain, 1811-1850
• HIS3283 Russian Revolution
• HIS3295 Christian Kings and Kingship, c. 870-c. 930
• HIS3321 Viking-Age Scandinavia
• HIS3326 Women in Colonial South Asia
• HIS3328 Imagined Futures
• HIS3330 Middle East/Ottoman Empire
• HIS3322 Aspects of Nineteenth century British History
• LAS4001 Inter-American Relations Since the Spanish-American War (1898)

The skills you develop as a historian are highly regarded by employers in many sectors. You will learn to critically evaluate evidence, organise ideas and present a coherent argument. You will assess problems in the light of considerable amounts of information, often conflicting, and will present complex material accurately, clearly and convincingly, both orally and on paper.

Such skills are essential in a wide range of careers – including commercial management and administrative roles in the public, private and charitable sectors. As a result our graduates enter a variety of careers:

• finance
• management
• information
• education
• human resources
• media
• marketing
• legal services

A survey by David Nicholls of Manchester Metropolitan University revealed that history turns out more directors of top companies than any other subject.

You can also make direct use of your knowledge of history in certain sectors including undertaking specialised research, publishing, information management, archivist and museum and curatorial work, plus other opportunities across the cultural and heritage sector.

Qualities such as self-motivation, teamwork ability and leadership may also be gained through non-academic activities and work experience and prepare you for a range of careers.

Find out more about the career options for History from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.