Historical Research (Economic and Social History)(MSc)

You take two compulsory modules, choose two option modules, and research and write a dissertation.

• Intermediate Quantitative Social Research
• Mastering Historical Research: Birkbeck Approaches

• Britain and Germany: The History of a Relationship, 1815-1990
• China and the West: Encounters
• Civil Society: Ideas, Practices and Dilemmas in the Modern World, 17th Century to the Present
• Contested Past, Troubled Present: Britain and Ireland since 1800 - Religion in Society and Politics
• Cultural History of War in Britain and America between the First World War and the Conflict in Vietnam
• Darwin, Darwinism and the Modern Ages
• Death, Disease and Early Modern City
• Early Modern London: Society and Culture
• Empires in Modern East Asia
• Gender in Britain
• Globalisation and the Rise of the Modern Consumer
• Globalisation: A Short Historical Introduction
• Jews and Antisemitism in Modern Europe: Histories and Approaches
• Madness and its Meanings
• Magic, Science and Religion in the Renaissance
• Monastic Lives in Medieval England
• Money and Empire c. 300-c. 800
• Opposition and Dissent in Early Modern France
• Plots, Conspiracy Theory and Political Culture in Early Modern Britain and France
• Politics and Islam
• Power and Communication in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1400-1800)
• Public Histories in Practice
• Race and the Victorians
• Renaissance Florence: Society, Religion and Culture
• Technology, Modernity and the Nation: Britain and Germany, 1880 to 1930
• The Making of Modern Societies: Britain and Europe, c.1500-c.1750
• The Origins of the French Revolution
• The Two Irelands 1911-1998
• The Victorian Communication Revolution
• Venice and Istanbul, 1453-1797
• Vice and the Victorians: Moral and social reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

• Research Dissertation