History (BA): 4-year, part-time

Our new survey course options range from the ancient to the contemporary world and will introduce you to the key themes you need to know about when studying the past. In keeping with our tradition of teaching an impressive chronological breadth within one department, these modules cover the time from prehistory to the present, moving across continents and cultures.

In parallel with these cutting-edge surveys, we offer a range of compulsory 'How to' modules which bring you together with academic staff to explore the study of the past and develop the skills needed to research and write history. Every year, as you build your studies and progress towards your degree, you will take one of these courses, helping you to develop your own unique perspective on the past.

Both the survey courses and our ‘How to’ courses run annually so that it doesn't matter whether you study part-time or full-time with us - you will be able to make the most of them.

The course offers a wide choice of subjects and approaches within a structured framework. You will make use of specialised historical literature and sources, and be trained in historical argument and techniques. To complete the degree, you will research and write a dissertation.

In Year 1, you take a compulsory module and two Level 4 option modules.

In Year 2, you take a Level 4 option module and two Level 5 option modules.

In Year 3, you take a compulsory module, a Level 5 option module and a Level 6 option module.

In Year 4, you take a Level 6 option module and write a dissertation.

• Approaching the Past

• Exploring the Past

• Writing the Past: Dissertation

• Discovering Archaeology: From Field to Finds Room
• The Ancient World
• The Archaeology of Greece and Rome
• The Contemporary World
• The Early Modern World, 1500-1800: Reformations and Revolutions
• The Medieval World: From Constantine to the Khans
• The Modern World

• Archaeology of the Everyday
• Beginnings: The Archaeology of Prehistory
• Being Good in the Modern Age - From Enlightenment to Environmentalism
• Between God and Rome: the Byzantine Empire 307-1453 (level 5)
• Britannia's Embrace: The British Empire and the World
• Contested Nation: Germany, 1871-1918 (level 5)
• Crossing Borders: Passports, Bodies and the State, 1600 to Today
• Empires: Conquest and Decolonisation, from 1700 to Brexit
• From Ancient to Medieval Societies, Third to Eleventh Centuries
• Greek and Roman Political Thought in Context
• Italy and the World: Conflict and the Incomplete Nation, 1815-present
• Journeys to the Underworld in Classical Literature and Culture
• London 1600-2000: people and power in the making of a global city
• Political and Social Change in the Middle East since 1918 (level 5)
• Space, Architecture and Landscapes of the Middle Ages
• The Archaeology of the Roman Empire
• The Reconstruction of Europe, 1945-1950 (level 5)
• The Renaissance in Italy and Europe: From the Black Death to the Reformations (c.1350-1600)
• Work and Play in Early Modern Britain (level 5)

• A sense of space: travellers and maps in the pre-modern world
• Blood and Faith: Violence, Religion and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• Crime, Poverty and Protest in England and Beyond, 1500-1800
• Failed states? Category and critique, AD 0-present in Europe, Asia, Africa
• Intimate Britain: Family, Society and Culture, 1832-1918
• Late Medieval and Early Modern London: Community, Politics and Religion
• Literature, Culture and Society 1914-1945
• Medicine and Power in Modern Africa
• Sexuality, Society and the State in Britain, 1914-2000
• The Athenian Empire
• The Colonial Gaze: Western Perceptions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 1600-1960
• The Empire of Letters: Correspondence in the Roman World
• The Third Reich