BA (Hons) History/History of Art

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