Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. History Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Dissertation 09 23512 40 Full Term

Optional modules: Students must choose two co-requisite Special Subject modules to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester). Students must also choose TWO 20 credit optional modules, one from each Semester. All optional lists are indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Students must choose two co-requisite Special Subject modules 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.

Special Subjects (A) 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: Britain at Bay in the Age of the Dictators. From Appeasement to World War Two, 1931-1942A 09 40490 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: Empire comes home: India in the making of Britain: A 09 38883 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
LH Special Subject: Fighting Over Freedom: American Political Ideas from Revolution to Civil War A 09 38880 20 Semester 1

Special Subjects (B) Sem 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: Britain at Bay in the Age of the Dictators. From Appeasement to World War Two, 1931-1942 B 09 40493 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: Empire comes home: India in the making of Britain: B 09 38884 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
LH Special Subject: Fighting Over Freedom: American Political Ideas from Revolution to Civil War B 09 38879 20 Semester 2

LH Advanced Options:

Students must choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1. This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

List A (Semester 1) :

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Adv Option: Feeling Politics in 20th Century Britain: Emotions and Politics in Britain From the Stiff Upper Lip to :) 09 39784 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800 09 38888 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Britain’s Wars of Colonisation and Decolonisation 09 38741 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Empire, Equality and Environment: Modern France, 1870 to 2020 09 41111 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Experts, Scholars, and Spies: the Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe 09 38744 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Indigenous and Settler Histories 09 38748 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Life After Death: Europe, 1945-1989 09 41112 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Politics and Religion in Islamic History: The Gunpowder Empires, c. 1450-1750 09 41115 20 Semester 2
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 1

LH Advanced Options:

Students must choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2.

This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability. List B (Semester 2):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Advanced Option: Black Activisms in the US South: Power, Feminisms, and Black Lives Mattering from 1960-present 09 39783 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 2
LH Advanced Option: Conflict in the Modern Middle East 09 38743 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Empire, Equality and Environment: Modern France, 1870 to 2020 09 41111 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Gender and the Making of the Modern Britain, 1650-1832 09 38802 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities 1885 to the Present 09 38746 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Land, Law, and Violence in the American West 09 38749 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Politics and Religion in Islamic History: The Gunpowder Empires, c. 1450-1750 09 41115 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Revolution, Regicide, & Republic: The British Civil Wars, 1642-1660 09 39779 20 Semester 2

With the approval of the programme lead students may also take 20 or 40 credits of approved module or modules offered by a School or Department other than History in place of one or two of the Options from Lists A and/or B.

Credits must still be evenly balanced across semesters.

Theology and Religion Department optional modules available to History students.

This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year based on staff availability:

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.

This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year based on staff availability:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Atlantic Slavery: West Africa and the Caribbean 09 22696 20 Semester 2
LH African Popular Culture 09 20437 20 Semester 1
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 1
LH Gender and Colonialism in African History 09 37921 20 Semester 1
LH Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29604 20 Semester 2
LH Machine Learning and Intelligent Data Analysis 06 30437 20 Semester 1
LH Political Anthropology 09 35014 20 Semester 2
LH Religion and Ritual 09 28072 20 Semester 1
LH The Anthropology of Tomorrow 09 38811 20 Semester 2
LH Urban Anthropology 09 31887 20 Semester 2
The Social Life of the Economy 09 24821 20 Semester 1