Course Content
Year 1
- Political Communities in World History
- Societies and Economies in World History
- Knowledge and Beliefs in World History
- Evidence and Methods
- Group Research Project
Year 2
- Public History Project
- Historical Thinking
Year 3
- Dissertation
Year 1
- Between the Empire and Me: Race and Decolonisation in Britain since 1930
- Children and Childhood in Britain and Empire, 1850-2000
- Empire, Welfare and Citizenship in Britain, 1870-1914
- Goths and Romans in Sixth Century Italy
- Strange Defeat: France from 1914 to 1945
- The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union 1941-45
- The Viking World: From Vínland to Samarkand
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 Long Black Freedom Struggle in the U.S. since 1865
- The Making of England, c.850-1066
- What News?' People and Politics in Early Modern Britain
Year 3
- Commemorations
- Communisms
- Disease
- Empires
- Magic
- Sexualities
- The Power of Persuasion: Rhetorics, culture and politics
- Violence
- Work and Labour
- 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
- 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