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Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session


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B.A. History and Philosophy with Year in Sustainability Full-time

Year: 4
2026/27 Session

Students must choose either the independent study module below OR the independent study module in their partner subject.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Dissertation 09 23512 40 Full Term

Students taking 40 credits in History must choose TWO co-requisite Specials Subjects to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester)

Students taking 60-80 credits in History may choose TWO co-requisite Specials Subjects to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester)

This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

History Special Subjects (A) in Semester 1:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: 1066, 1099: Chronicling Conquest on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe: A 09 36066 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects A 09 32131 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: After Hitler: Politics and Society in (West) Germany during the Adenauer Era, 1945-1965 A 09 30957 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Beauty, Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Body in Britain, c1680-1820: A 09 35001 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Britain and the First World War A 09 37867 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: British Women and Internationalism since 1850 A 09 30931 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Conflict, nationalism and genocide in East Central Europe, ca. 1880 – 1953 A 09 32127 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Dossers: Homelessness in Modern Britain, 1900 to Present A 09 30932 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Egypt in Revolution. Modernity, Masculinity and Revolution in 20th Century Egypt A 09 37120 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Facing the Fuhrer, the Duce and the Emperor: British Foreign and Defence Policies, 1931-1942 A 09 30956 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Games without Thrones? North Atlantic Societies in the wake of the Vikings, c.800-c.1200 A 09 37112 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Global Cities and Urban Lives, 1690-1914 A 09 37122 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities in the British World A 09 37124 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Gunpowder, Treason and Plot: England under Elizabeth I and James I A 09 37956 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: People of the Aftermath: British Culture in the 1920s and 1930s A 09 30955 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Terrorising History: Terrorist Motivations, Methods, and Mayhem A 09 30960 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: The Revolting Right: Conservative Activism in Post-war Britain A 09 30958 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A 09 31842 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Where There Is Discord: Making Thatcher’s Britain A 09 30959 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Women and Social Movements in Brazil: A 09 35005 20 Semester 1

History Special Subjects (B) in Semester 2:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: 1066, 1099: Chronicling Conquest on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe: B 09 36067 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects B 09 32129 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: After Hitler: Politics and Society in (West) Germany during the Adenauer Era, 1945-1965 B 09 31114 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Beauty, Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Body in Britain, c1680-1820: B 09 35002 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Britain and the First World War B 09 37868 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: British Women and Internationalism since 1850 B 09 31109 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Conflict, nationalism and genocide in East Central Europe, ca. 1880 – 1953 B 09 32125 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Dossers: Homelessness in Modern Britain, 1900 to Present B 09 31110 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Egypt in Revolution. Modernity, Masculinity and Revolution in 20th Century Egypt B 09 37121 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Facing the Fuhrer, the Duce and the Emperor: British Foreign and Defence Policies, 1931-1942 B 09 31113 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Games without Thrones? North Atlantic Societies in the wake of the Vikings, c.800-c.1200 B 09 37116 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Global Cities and Urban Lives, 1690-1914 B 09 37123 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities in the British World B 09 37125 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Gunpowder, Treason and Plot: England under Elizabeth I and James I B 09 37958 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: People of the Aftermath: British Culture in the 1920s and 1930s B 09 31112 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Terrorising History: Terrorist Motivations, Methods, and Mayhem B 09 31117 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: The Revolting Right: Conservative Activism in Post-war Britain B 09 31115 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich B 09 31840 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Where There Is Discord: Making Thatcher’s Britain B 09 31116 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Women and Social Movements in Brazil: B 09 35006 20 Semester 2

History Advanced Options.

Students taking 60-80 credits in History may choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 from List A AND/OR ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2 from List B.

The following options will be grouped into List A (Semester 1) and List B (Semester 2)

This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Advanced Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800 09 38888 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Bread, Wine and Barricades: Freedom, Ecology and the Nature of Modern France 09 38740 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Britain’s Wars of Colonisation and Decolonisation 09 38741 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Capital Lives: Experiencing the City in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain 09 38812 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: China in Revolution: China under Mao (1949-1976) 09 38742 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Conflict in the Modern Middle East 09 38743 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Experts, Scholars, and Spies: the Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe 09 38744 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: From the OSS to Snowden: A History of American Intelligence Agencies since 1945 09 38745 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities 1885 to the Present 09 38746 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Indigenous and Settler Histories 09 38748 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Land, Law, and Violence in the American West 09 38749 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Life After Death: Culture, Politics and Memory in Post-War Europe, 1945-1973 09 38750 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Practising Public History 09 38752 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Reason and Romance: The Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century Britain 09 38753 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Terrorism in the USA: From the Klan to Al Qaeda to White Power 09 38755 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: The Making of the British Raj: Gender, Conquest and Race in early colonial India, c.1757-1885 09 38757 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Women Behaving Badly in Tudor and Stuart England 09 38760 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: ‘A Holiday from Reality’: A History of Drugs and Drug Use in the Modern Era 09 38738 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: ‘The Young Ones’: Youth, popular culture, and social change in twentieth century Britain 09 38759 20 Semester 1
LH The United States South: From Plantations to NASCAR 09 28983 20 Semester 1

Theology and Religion Department optional modules available to History students:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Historical and Contemporary Debates on the Holocaust 09 37066 20 Semester 1

DASA Department optional modules available to History students:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Atlantic Slavery: West Africa and the Caribbean 09 22696 20 Semester 2
LH Anthropology of Migration 09 31404 20 Semester 1
LH Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial 09 37917 20 Semester 1
LH Development in Africa 09 37919 20 Semester 2
LH Ethnographies of the Marginalised 09 29673 20 Semester 2
LH From Colony to Nation: Ghana 1874-1966 09 28015 20 Semester 1
LH Gender and Colonialism in African History 09 37921 20 Semester 1
LH Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29604 20 Semester 1
LH Machine Learning and Intelligent Data Analysis 06 30437 20 Semester 1
LH Political Anthropology 09 35014 20 Semester 2
LH Urban Anthropology 09 31887 20 Semester 2

Choose 60 (or if taking Philosophical Project, 40) credits from the following list of options or up to 20 credits of Level I Department of Philosophy modules may be taken provided that all 60 year 3 credits in the other Joint Honours subject are being taken at Level H. This list of modules which follows is indicative, but in any given year, only around 15 of these will run in the ordinary way (with lectures, seminars etc.) Most of the rest will be made available as a 'Special Subject' to students whose Stage 2 marks averaged 60 or better and who elect to take (at most one) of these modules on a more independent basis.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Bodies and Beauty 09 30158 20 Semester 2
LH Fantastic Beasts and How to Understand them: Topics in Philosophy of Biology 09 30840 20 Semester 1
LH It’s About Time! 09 30950 20 Semester 2
LH Just War 09 29256 20 Semester 1
LH Nietzsche 09 26095 20 Semester 1
LH Philosophy of Mathematics 09 26094 20 Semester 2
LH Prejudice Race + Gender 08 26796 20 Semester 1
LH Reason and Belief 09 31431 20 Semester 2
LH Social Justice 09 30837 20 Semester 1
LH Topics in Philosophy of Religion 08 26825 20 Semester 2

Students must choose either the below Philosophy Dissertation module or the dissertation/independent study module in their partner subject

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Philosophical Project 08 27860 40 Full Term

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation.

Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1