This subject is offered by the School of Historical Studies.
We encourage students to take a broad and inclusive view of history. Our first-year modules, Encounters in World History and Identities in World History, go beyond human history to include the history of the environment and even of the universe. The curriculum for Single Honours History is designed to introduce students to History as the study of humankind's experiences in the past - throughout time and across the planet - and also to more specialised knowledge of particular times, places and themes.
The curriculum is structured to enable students to make informed choices about the particular times and places they choose as options. It progresses from a greater towards a lesser number of compulsory modules (each containing within them an element of choice) in each Stage, and from broader (chronologically and geographically) towards narrower modules in each Stage.
It is this curriculum structure, and in particular its foundation in world history, that makes our History offering distinctive.
A Level History (or equivalent) is normally required.
| Code | Module | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | ||
| HIS1023 | Encounters in World History | 20 credits |
| HIS1029 | Varieties of History | 20 credits |
| HIS1030 | Evidence and Argument | 20 credits |
| HIS1044 | Aspects of British History | 20 credits |
| HIS1045 | Themes in European History | 20 credits |
| HIS1046 | The History of the Americas | 20 credits |
| Code | Module | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 2 | ||
| ARA2097 | Historical Archaeology of the Modern World (post 1492) | 20 credits |
| HIS2014 | Japan since 1868 | 20 credits |
| HIS2031 | Between Revolutions: Britain 1688-1789 | 20 credits |
| HIS2033 | Women and Men in Late Imperial China | 20 credits |
| HIS2037 | Progress & Plenty? Brit His 1815-1918 | 20 credits |
| HIS2055 | The Later Russian Empire 1796-1917 | 20 credits |
| HIS2077 | Russia under Lenin and Stalin 1917-1953 | 20 credits |
| HIS2080 | Final Frontiers: America in the Space Age | 20 credits |
| HIS2082 | 20th Century Spain, 1898-2004 | 20 credits |
| HIS2083 | Hunger, disease & death | 20 credits |
| HIS2084 | Europe's reformations | 20 credits |
| HIS2086 | 20th Century France 1914-95 | 20 credits |
| HIS2102 | The Two Irelands, 1921-2000 | 20 credits |
| HIS2109 | European Civil War, 1890-1945 | 20 credits |
| HIS2110 | Conquest, Culture, Genocide | 20 credits |
| HIS2112 | Outsiders | 20 credits |
| HIS2113 | Italian Unification | 20 credits |
| HIS2122 | Ideas and Revolutions, 1640-1953 | 20 credits |
| HIS2123 | The Family, Sex and Society | 20 credits |
| HIS2124 | A History of Contemporary Britain | 20 credits |
| HIS2126 | The Difficult Fatherland: Germany’s Pasts | 20 credits |
| HIS2130 | East Central Europe in the 20th Century 1914-1989 | 20 credits |
| HIS2072 | Anglo-Saxon England | 20 credits |
| HIS2078 | History of Medicine | 20 credits |
| HIS2114 | Death, Dying and the dead in early modern England | 20 credits |
| HIS2131 | American Slavery, American Freedom, 1776-1876 | 20 credits |
| HIS2014 | Japan since 1868 | 20 credits |
| HIS2117 | Modern Colonial Empires | 20 credits |
| HIS2128 | Modern Greece | 20 credits |
| Code | Module | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 3 | ||
| HIS3001 | The Haitian Revolution | 30 credits |
| HIS3004 | The English Revolution, 1640-1660 | 30 credits |
| HIS3008 | Reading History | 30 credits |
| HIS3010 | Writing History | 30 credits |
| HIS3011 | Extended Study | 10 credits |
| HIS3012 | Extended Study | 10 credits |
| HIS3018 | The Spanish 2nd Republic & Civil War | 30 credits |
| HIS3021 | Devices & Desires: Birth Control, Sexuality and Reproduction | 30 credits |
| HIS3025 | May 1968: all power to the imagination | 30 credits |
| HIS3061 | Japan and the Second World War | 30 credits |
| HIS3078 | England, 1714-1820: The Birth of a Consumer Society | 30 credits |
| HIS3080 | Victorian Society, 1832-1884 | 30 credits |
| HIS3083 | The Russian Revolution | 30 credits |
| HIS3084 | The Mexican Revolution | 30 credits |
| HIS3085 | 20th Century Mexico | 30 credits |
| HIS3086 | Genocide | 30 credits |
| HIS3089 | Gorbachev | 30 credits |
| HIS3095 | Weimar Republic | 30 credits |
| HIS3105 | Fascism in Italy, 1914-1945 | 30 credits |
| HIS3108 | Coffee, Chocolate and Tobacco | 30 credits |
| HIS3110 | The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial | 30 credits |
| HIS3124 | Survival and Resistance in Occupied Poland 1939-1944 | 30 credits |
| HIS3125 | Cultural Identities and the Counterculture in 1960s America | 30 credits |
| HIS3006 | The Irish Revolution 1879-1921 | 30 credits |
| HIS3017 | Religion and Society in Britain 800-1066 | 30 credits |
| HIS3117 | The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall | 30 credits |
| HIS3118 | Hogarth! - An Artist in Georgian London | 30 credits |
| HIS3120 | British Foreign Policy since Suez | 30 credits |
| HIS3121 | Viking-Age Scandinavia | 30 credits |
| HIS3122 | The American Revolution 1760-1791 | 30 credits |