Course Content
Year 1
- Evidence and Methods
- Group Research Project
- Knowledge and Beliefs in World History
- The Materials of Art and Architecture
- The Art of Describing
Year 2
- Museology
- Historical Thinking
Year 3
- Dissertation
Option Modules
Year 1
- Transmissions and Connections
- Theory for Art Historians
Year 2
- Ancien Régime France, 1500-1787
- Britain in the Long Twentieth Century
- From Grave Robbers to Gene Therapy: The Rise of Modern Medicine
- Histories in Public: Understandings of the Past in Today's Society
- Kingship, Rule and Mythmaking: England 1065-1307
- Narrators and Historical Memory in the Middle Ages
- Righteous Might: American Politics and Society since 1877
- The Tudor Regime: Power, Propaganda and Faith, 1485-1603
- An Inconvenient Truth: Climate and Capitalism in the Modern World
- Black Radicalism in the Americas
- Britain and the World Since 1945
- Catherine the Great 1763 – 1796
- From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
- Knowledge and Empire, c.1760-1965
- The Making of England, c.850-1066
- What News?' People and Politics in Early Modern Britain
- Seeing & Being Seen: English Art in the 14th Century
- Jerusalem in Western Medieval Art and Architecture
- Art in Venice from Bellini to Titian
- Casts and Cultures: the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
- Action/Re-action: Live Art, Performance and Participation
- Image and Icon: Representing the Sacred in the Early Medieval World
- Eccentric Cities: Art, Politics and Trade in Italy, 1100-1400
- The Power of the Real in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting and Sculpture
- The Rise of the Print in Europe, 1400-1800
- Art in the USA 1945-1975
Year 3
- From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth Century Caribbean
- Improvement, Modernization or Violence? 'Development' in Historical Perspective
- Inquisitors and Heretics in the High Middle Ages
- Ireland in the Age of Revolution
- Possession: Objects and Ownership in Early Modern England, c.1650-c.1750
- Reading and Writing in Late-Medieval England
- Rebellion and Revolution: The British Civil Wars, 1637-51
- Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, and Religious Ferment, c.1200
- Second-Class Citizens: Migration in Modern Europe
- The French Wars of Religion, 1559-94
- The Ghosts of Gandhi: India and Africa since the Late Nineteenth Century
- The Russian Revolution, 1917-21
- Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35
- Architecture and Politics in Stuart England c.1603-1688
- Art Law for Art Historians
- Illuminating the Bible 1200-1500
- Interwoven: fashion and clothing culture in Art History
- Journeys, Histories, and Methods of Display
- Monuments of the Islamic World: Innovation and Change From Spain to India
- Stained Glass in the Great Church c.1170-1350