History BA Honours
UCAS Code: V100
(3 Years)
Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.
Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.
Stage 1
Compulsory modules
Optional modules
You choose up to three modules from the list below:
You may choose up to 40 credits of modules from elsewhere in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Stage 2
Compulsory modules
You take at least one module from each of the following lists:
LIST A
LIST B
LIST C
Optional modules
In addition, all candidates may take up to 60 credits of optional modules selected from the following:
You may choose up to 40 credits of modules from elsewhere in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
It is also possible to spend a semester studying abroad at one of our partner institutions in Europe, which would entail undertaking a 60-credit module:
Stage 3
Compulsory modules
Optional module
You choose either the following module or a 20-credit module from elsewhere in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
You also choose 40 credits from the following list:
- ARA3016 The Archaeology of Byzantium and its Neighbours
- CAH3009 The Emperor and the Empire
- HIS3107 Queen Elizabeth I: Legitimacy, Authority and Image, 1558-1603
- HIS3181 The American Civil War, 1861-1865
- HIS3196 Nazi Germany
- HIS3205 Fascism in Italy, 1914-1945
- HIS3208 Coffee, Chocolate and Tobacco
- HIS3221 Birth Control in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- HIS3222 Jarrow Crusade
- HIS3226 Contesting Nationalism in Post-war Japan
- HIS3278 England 1714-1820: Birth of a Consumer Society
- HIS3279 Popular Politics and Reform in Britain, 1811-1850
- LAS4001 Inter-American Relations Since the Spanish-American War (1898)
- ARA3013 Early Medieval Britain: Anglo-Saxons, Celts, Vikings
- CAH3030 The Jews in the Greek and Roman World
- HIS3034 The Age of Jefferson
- HIS3203 Madness, Nerves and Narratives in Georgian Britain, c 1714-1830
- HIS3204 The English Revolution, 1640-1660
- HIS3213 Slave Emancipation in the British Empire
- HIS3219 Culture, Conflict and Convivencia in Medieval Iberia
- HIS3228 France and the Maghreb, 1830 - Present
- HIS3232 Civil Rights and Armalites: Northern Ireland since 1969
- HIS3240 Civil Rights in America, 1948-1975
- HIS3285 Post-Revolutionary Mexico: From Zapata to the Zapatistas
- HIS3286 Genocide
- HIS3289 Gorbachev
- HIS3321 Viking-Age Scandinavia
Subject to approval, alternative optional modules to those listed above may be chosen.