History BA (Hons)

Year 1

Core modules

• Case Studies I: Sources and Approaches in History
• Perspectives on the Past, Part I
• Case Studies II: Independent Study Project
• Perspectives on the Past, Part II

Optional modules

• Introductory Study: Early Medieval Britain 400-1066
• Introductory Study: The United States
• Introductory Study: Early Modern Europe
• Introductory Study: Europe 1300-1500
• Introductory Study: English History 1272-1500
• Introductory Study: Twentieth Century Europe
• Introductory Study: Victorian Britain 1815-1914
• Introductory Study: East Asia 1900-present
• Introductory Study: The Classical World 500-31BC
• Introductory Study: Roman Britain
• Introductory Study: Tudor and Early Stuart England 1500-1660
• Introductory Study: Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, 1783 - 1997
• Introductory Study: Uniting the Kingdom? Britain, 1660-1837
• Introductory Module: Europe in Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
• International Introductory Module: Origins of Greek Civilisation: from Aegean Bronze Age to Archaic Greece (2000-600 BC)
• Introductory Module: Europe in the High Middle Ages (c.800 - c.1200)
• Introductory Module: Modern Europe, 1789-2001
• Introductory Module: Seventeenth century England
• Introductory Study: Barbarians, Byzantines, and Beyond (400-814CE)
• Introductory Study: Britain in the Twentieth Century
• Introductory Study: Europe and The Americas (1763-1914) - change and interchange

Year 2

Core modules

• Reading History
• Practising History

Optional modules

• Independent Study Module
• Work Placement
• Group Project
• Field Trip
• Volunteering in History
• Culture and Society in 5th Century Athens
• The World of Alexander the Great
• Greco-Roman Egypt 331-31 BC
• Culture and Society in Republican Rome 506-44 B.C.
• The Carolingian Renaissance
• The Vikings and the Frankish World
• The Investiture Contest
• Norman Sicily, ca 1000-1197
• English Monasticism
• The First English Empire: c. 1100 to c. 1350
• The Reign of King John
• Culture and Society in Late Medieval England
• The Golden Age of Spain
• Political Medievalisms
• Religion, Politics & Society in Early Tudor England, 1485-1558
• The Global Hispanic World (1760s-1960s)
• War as a Life Experience (18th-20th Centuries)
• Enlightened Absolutism in East-Central Europe, 1740-1790
• Victorian Culture and Society
• Imperial Japan
• The British Raj, from the 'Indian Mutiny' to Gandhi - 1857-1947
• The American South 1865-1970
• Edwardian Britain
• Revolutionary Russia, 1900-1924
• Nazism and the Holocaust
• From Austerity to Affluence: Everyday Life in Post-war Britain
• The Kinks: English Culture and Identity from the Post-War through to the 21st Century
• The Symposium: Ancient Greek Drinking Culture
• Sport and Leisure in Classical Greece and Rome
• Classical World on Film
• The Age of the Vikings
• Post-Carolingian Rulership
• The Crusades
• Societies at War - England and France, 1189-1529
• Textiles in the Medieval World
• Food and Drink in Medieval and Early Modern England
• The Urban History of Europe from the Black Death to the Industrial Revolution c.1350-1700
• The Renaissance Court: Power. Politics and Patronage
• Gender in Europe and North America, c. 1500-1914
• Culture, Society and Economy in Early Modern England
• Exploring Past Localities
• Age of Discovery
• The Rise of the High Speed Society (18th-20th centuries)
• American Slavery
• Reactions to Poverty
• Power to the People: Energy, Industrialization and the Creation of the Modern World
• History's Eye - Photography and Society
• Sisterhood - Before and After: Feminism in Twentieth Century Britain
• Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe
• Soviet Communism
• 'Subordinate Independence': Japan's Relationship with the US 1945-present
• Stalinism
• Dreams and Nightmares: Britain in 20th Century Europe
• The History of Rock and Roll
• Political and Religious Themes in the Modern Near and Middle East
• 'The War on Terror' and the 'Axis of Evil' and Beyond
• Middle English: Texts in Context
• Old English I

Year 3

Core modules

• Dissertation in History
• Writing History
• History and the Public Sphere

Optional modules

• Work Placement
• Depth Study: Greek Rhetoric: The Sophists and Lysias & Demosthenes
• Depth Study: Epic Literature and History: Homer and Herodotus
• Depth Study: The "Pax Romana"
• Depth Study: Alfred the Great
• Depth Study: Ruling England in the Second Viking Age, Part I: Kingdoms Lost and Won and Part II: Political Cultures
• Depth Study: The Norman Conquest
• Depth Study: The Emergence of the Italian City Communes (c.1050-c.1150) and The Dominance of the Italian City Communes (c.1150-c.1250).
• Depth Study: Norman Worlds I (Normandy and the British Isles) and II (Southern Italy and Crusader Kingdoms)
• Depth Study: The Anglo-Norman Civil War, 1120-1148 and 1148-1162
• Depth Study: The Hundred Years' War 1337-1453
• Depth Study: The Wars of the Roses 1450-1499
• Depth Study: The Medieval Life Cycle: Youth and Age
• Depth Study: The Italian Wars 1494-1516 and 1521-1559
• Depth Study: The Henrician & Edwardian Reformation and the Marian Counter-Reformation
• Depth Study: The French Wars of Religion 1562-1598
• Depth Study: Civil War and Revolution in the British Isles
• Depth Study: The Rise of British Medicine 1650 - 1800 and 1800 - 1950
• The Age of Napoleon in global perspective - I and II
• Depth Study: The French in North Africa: The Maghreb, 1830-1914 and North Africa and France: The Maghreb, 1914-present
• Depth Study: The Emergence of Modern Environmentalism I & II: The Discovery of Nature and The Crisis of Nature
• Depth Study: Interwar Britain
• Depth Study: Society, Culture and Everyday Life in Russia: 1928-1985
• Depth Study: Genocide in History and Memory I and II
• Depth Study: Japan at War and Under Occupation 1937-52
• Depth Study: The Home Front: the United Kingdom 1939-1945
• Depth Study: The United States and the Cold War 1945-63
• The Post-war Teenager, 1945-1979 Part 1 and Part 2
• Depth Study: The USSR after Stalin, 1953-1964 and 1964-1985
• Comparative Study: Murder in the Ancient City
• Comparative Study: Plutarch's Parallel Lives
• Comparative Study: Greek and Roman Epic
• Comparative Study: Greek and Roman Comedy Theatre
• Comparative Study: Gender and Authority in Early Medieval Europe
• Comparative Study: Medieval Hostageships
• Comparative Study: Warfare in the Medieval West from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
• Comparative Study: The Middle Ages in Computer Games
• Comparative Study: Chivalry
• Comparative Study: The Black Death in Europe
• Comparative Study: Religious Reform in Sixteenth-Century Europe
• Comparative Study: The Monstrous Regiment: Gender and Authority in Early Modern Europe
• Comparative Study: Supernatural and Witchcraft Beliefs in the British Isles, Continental Europe and America c.1450-1800
• Comparative Study: Nation Making in Early Modern Europe
• Comparative Study: Ideas, Ideologies and Colonial Organisation in the British and French Empires
• Comparative Study: Borderlands and Commodities in History
• Comparative Study: Mental Health and Illness
• Comparative Study: The People are Revolting! Protest, Rebellion and Popular Politics in the Modern World
• Comparative Study: Minorities in the Past
• Comparative Study: Mediterranean Fascism: Conflict and Dictatorship in Spain and Italy 1914-1947
• Comparative Study: Holocaust Memory and Representation in Europe, the United States & Israel
• Comparative Study: War Crimes Trials and Memories of War: Japan and Germany
• Comparative Study: Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
• Comparative Study: Anxiety and Hope: Meanings of Home in the Post-war World

For further information about modules, please view the course leaflet (see right hand side).

Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.