History ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your History degree in three or four years. If you choose to study abroad, this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1 Compulsory

• History in Practice

• Europe in a Global Context since 1800
• Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801

• Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their legacy
• Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World 1500-1800

• Building the American Nation: 1756-1900
• Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History
• Life and Death in the Victorian Home
• Race and the Desire for Difference
• Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
• The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History
• The Medieval World: Structures and Mentalities

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Choose from over 50 modules, including

• A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890 – 1990
• Architecture in London 1600 – 1837
• Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain, 1830 – 1928
• Freedom and Nation: The State in Post-Colonial Africa, 1956 – 2006
• From Muhammed to the Ottomans: A History of Medieval Islamic Societies
• Human Rights in History: Origins, Foundations, Prospects
• London and its Museums
• Race in the United States: Slavery to Civil Rights
• The Crusades 1095 – 1291

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Compulsory

History special subject and dissertation module in one of 15+ subjects, which may include

• Behind Closed Doors: House, Home and Private Life in England, 1660-1850
• Making Thatcher's Britain: The Thatcher Revolution, 1975-1997
• Slaves on Horses: State and Society under the Mamluks
• The Kennedy Years
• The War on Terror

• Cold War America 1945 – 1975
• Gotham: The Making of New York City 1825 – 2001
• The Body in Science, Medicine and Culture since 1832
• The Germans and the Jews since 1871
• The History of Emotions
• The World that Jane Austen Knew: Women, Gender and Culture in England
• Totalitarianism: History & Theory of Twentieth Century Authoritarian Politics
• Witches, Demons and Magic in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our History BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.