MA Historical Research 2023-24

You will take both modules
Part-time students will take these modules in the second year

• HST405: Dissertation in Historical Research (75 credits, semesters 1 & 2) 

• HST6802: Research Presentation (15 credits, semester 2)

You will take one 30 credit module in semester 1
Part-time students will take this module in the first year

• HST6601: Approaching the Middle Ages 

• HST6602: Early Modernities

• HST6603: Modernity & Power: Individuals & The State In The Modern World

• HST6604: Approaches to the American Past

• HST6606: The World in Connection: Themes in Global History

Semester one

15 credits each:

• HST6031 The Dawn of Modernity in the Late Middle Ages

• HST6042 Presenting the Past: Making History Public

• HST6046 Sex and Power: The Politics of Women's Liberation in Modern Britain

• HST6053 Debating Cultural Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

• HST6054 Language and Society in Early Modern England

• HST6067 Church, Life, and Law in the Central Middle Ages

• HST6075 Human Rights in Modern History

• HST6076 International Order in the Twentieth Century

• HST6801 Research Skills for Historians

• HST6850 Palaeography

• HST61022 Black Power: Race, Gender, and Liberation in the United States and Beyond

• HST61025 Approaches and Methods in Media History

Semester two

15 credits each:

• HST681 Work Placement

• HST694 Revolutionary England, 1640-1660: Politics, Culture and Society

• HST699 The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975

• HST6049 Policing the Family: Welfare, Eugenics and Love in early 20th century Britain

• HST6069 Worlds of Labour: Working Class Lives in Colonial South Asia

• HST6072 Voices of the Great War: Gender, Experience and Violence in Great Britain and Germany, 1914-1918

• HST6087 Before Facebook: Social Networks in History

• HST6091 Migration in the Ancient World

30 credit each:

• HST401 The Global Cold War

• HST402 Race and Racism in Historical Perspective

• HST61020 Women and Power

• HST61021 Food and Drink

Teaching and assessment methods may vary for non-History modules.

Please note that the owning department has final approval for acceptance onto their modules and, if space becomes limited, priority may be given to students registered in that department.

Semester one

• AAP6102 Heritage, History and Identity (15 credits)

• AAP6135 Society and Culture in the Later Middle Ages (15 credits)

• AAP6139 The History of the Human-Animal Relationship (15 credits)

• AAP61001 Archaeology in the Classical Mediterranean (15 credits)

• EGH444 Humans, Animals, Monsters & Machines: From Gulliver's Travels to King Kong (30 credits)

• EGH445 Romantic Gothic (30 credits)

• EGH452 Renaissance Transformations (30 credits)

• EGH456 Reimagining the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (30 credits)

• Languages for All modules where relevant to your programme of study. These modules are 10 credits and must be taken alongside the appropriate Enhanced Languages module (5 credits). 

Semester two

• AAP637 Heritage, Place and Community (15 credits)

• AAP6107 Roman Italy and its Hinterland (15 credits)

• AAP6143 Later Neolithic & Bronze Age Britain & Ireland (15 credits)

• AAP6219 Digital Cultural Heritage: Theory and Practice (15 credits)

• EGH447 Post-war British Theatre, Film and Television (30 credits)

• EGH448 Confession (30 credits)

• EGH449 Memory and Narrative in Contemporary Literature (30 credits)

• EGH453 Mid-century Modernism (30 credits)

• EGH622 Murderers and Degenerates: Contextualising the fin de siècle Gothic (30 credits)

• EGH61009 American Nightmares: Socio-political Discourses in American Gothic Literature (30 credits)

• Languages for All modules where relevant to your programme of study. These modules are 10 credits and must be taken alongside the appropriate Enhanced Languages module (5 credits).