MA Modern History 2024-25

You will take all three modules
Part-time students will take the Dissertation and Research Presentation in the second year

• HST6603: Modernity & Power: Individuals & The State In The Modern World (30 credits, semester 1)

• HST6560: Dissertation in History (60 credits, semesters 1 & 2) 

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

Semester one:

• HST426 The United States and the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945-63 (15 credits)

• HST699 The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975 (15 credits)

• HST6042 Presenting the Past: Making History Public (15 credits)

• HST6053 Debating Cultural Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (15 credits)

• HST6085 Under Attack: The Home Front during the Cold War (15 credits)

• HST6089 Wikipedia and History (15 credits)

• HST6801 Research Skills for Historians (15 credits)

• HST61025 Approaches and Methods in Media History (15 credits)

Semester two:

• HST401 The Global Cold War (30 credits)

• HST423 A History of Emotions, from the Medieval Age to the Modern (30 credits)

• HST424 Feminist Methods in Historical Practice (30 credits)

• HST427 Captivity and Consequences: Race, Gender and the French Empire, 1940-45 (15 credits)

• HST681 Work Placement (15 credits)

• HST6046 Sex and Power: The Politics of Women's Liberation in Modern Britain (15 credits)

• HST6076 International Order in the Twentieth Century (15 credits)

• HST6087 Before Facebook: Social Networks in History (15 credits)

Teaching and assessment methods may vary for these modules. 

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

Semester one:

• EGH445 Romantic Gothic (30 credits) - this module is now full

• EGH61009 American Nightmares: Socio-political Discourses in American Gothic Literature (30 credits) - this module is now full

• HST412 Heritage, History and Identity (15 credits) - this module is now full

• HST422 Digital Mapping for the Humanities (15 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:

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

• EGH447 Post-1945 British Drama, Film and Television (30 credits) - this module is now full

• EGH448 Confession (30 credits)

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

• EGH453 Mid-century Modernism (30 credits)

• EGH622 Murderers and Degenerates: Contextualising the fin de siècle Gothic (30 credits) - this module is now full

• HST408 Digital Cultural Heritage: Theory and Practice (15 credits) - this module is now full

• HST417 Heritage, Place and Community (15 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).