Programme Requirements for 2023/24 Session


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B.A. History Full-time

Year: 3
2023/24 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Dissertation 09 23512 40 Full Term

Students must choose two Special Subject modules to the value of 40 credits from a range of options that will vary from year to year depending on staff availability. The two choices must be co-requisite modules:

Special Subjects (A)

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: 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: Conflict, nationalism and genocide in East Central Europe, ca. 1880 – 1953 A 09 32127 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Conquest and Crisis in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-1650 A 09 37878 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: Empire-wallahs: India in the British Imagination A 09 30927 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: People of the Aftermath: British Culture in the 1920s and 1930s A 09 30955 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: Explorers, Conquerors and Settlers; The Sixteenth-Century Age of Discovery A 09 38807 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Fighting Over Freedom: American Political Ideas from Revolution to Civil War A 09 38880 20 Semester 1

Special Subjects (B):

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: 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: Conflict, nationalism and genocide in East Central Europe, ca. 1880 – 1953 B 09 32125 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Conquest and Crisis in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-1650 A 09 37879 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: Empire-wallahs: India in the British Imagination: B 09 31106 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: People of the Aftermath: British Culture in the 1920s and 1930s B 09 31112 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: Explorers, Conquerors and Settlers; The Sixteenth-Century Age of Discovery B 09 38808 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Fighting Over Freedom: American Political Ideas from Revolution to Civil War B 09 38879 20 Semester 2

Choose one advanced option in each semester (20 credits each). Availability of modules varies from year to year. The following list is indicative:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Advanced Option: After the Caliphate: Political Authority in Islamic Lands, 1000-1600 09 38739 20 Semester 2
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 and her Soldiers: Society and the Army from the First World War to Afghanistan 09 38800 20 Semester 2
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: Faith and Fire: Religion and Rebellion in England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I 09 38801 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Feeding the World, Starving the Planet: Towards a Global History of Food 09 38889 20 Semester 1
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 1
LH Advanced Option: History of Technology and Culture in the United States 09 38803 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Indigenous and Settler Histories 09 38748 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Land, Law, and Violence in the American West 09 38749 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Lest We Forget? 'Memory, War, and Conflict in Britain, 1642-2022 09 38806 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Lest We Forget? 'Memory, War, and Conflict in Britain, 1642-2022 09 38890 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Microhistories of the First World War 09 38804 20 Semester 1
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: 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: ‘The Young Ones’: Youth, popular culture, and social change in twentieth century Britain 09 38759 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: ‘Vanished: Extinction from the Dodo to Extinction Rebellion’ 09 38891 20 Semester 2
LH The United States South: From Plantations to NASCAR 09 28983 20 Semester 1

Students who have taken LI 37673 Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy cannot take the LH version of this module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 38933 20 Semester 1