History
History
Overview
Discover our range of History modules for 2019-20.
Find out about modules available for:
The range of modules offered may change each academic year.
Find reading lists on our website.
Further information
For further information about this subject, including any pre-requisites, visit the History subject page.
You can also contact your Subject Adviser.
Stage 1
Find out about History modules for Stage 1.
Students study either 40 or 60 credits from the list below in Stage 1.
Select the module code for specific module information including the module summary and aims, knowledge and skills you'll gain, and the module leader.
| Module Code | Module Title | Credit Value | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIS1025 | World Empires | 20 | 2 |
| HIS1027 | European History | 20 | 1 |
| HIS1029 | Varieties of History | 20 | 2 |
| HIS1030 | Evidence and Argument (Compulsory module) | 20 | 1 |
| HIS1044 | Aspects of British History | 20 | 1 |
| HIS1046 | The History of the Americas | 20 | 2 |
Stage 2
Find out about History modules for Stage 2.
All Stage 2 History modules are capped at 55 unless otherwise stated
Students study either 40, 60 or 80 credits from the list below in Stage 2.
Select the module code for specific module information including the module summary and aims, knowledge and skills you'll gain, and the module leader.
| Module Code | Module Title | Credit Value | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARA2091 | Archaeology of Roman Empire: The Roman World from Augustus to Justinian (not capped) | 20 | 1 |
| CAH2006 | Hellenistic Empires from Alexander to Cleopatra (Not capped) | 20 | 1 |
| CAH2007 | Caesar's Gift: Rome under the Emperors (not capped) | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2002 | Fatal Allies: Anglo-Irish Relations 1798-1998 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2003 | Religion & Politics in Tudor England, c. 1470-1558 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2012 | Clash of Civilizations: Islam, the Crusades, and the Mongol invasions (c. 750-1300) | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2072 | Anglo-Saxon England: From Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, 410-1066 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2078 | Approaches to the History of Western Medicine | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2082 | Twentieth Century Spain, 1898-2004 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2084 | Europe's Reformations | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2085 | Pre-Columbian and Spanish America | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2086 | 20th Century France 1914-1995 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2095 | Drinking Histories: British, Irish and imperial society and alcohol, c. 1750-the present | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2104 | The Dark Ages: The Post-Roman World, 500-700 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2114 | Death, Dying & the Dead in Early Modern England, 1500-1832 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2124 | A History of Contemporary Britain | 20 |
1 |
| HIS2131 | American Slavery, American Freedom: Black and White America in the Age of Revolutions | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2133 | Society and Politics in Colonial India, 1880s-1947 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2140 | Survey History of Japan | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2170 | The History of New Orleans | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2219 | Oral History and Memory | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2228 | The Habsburg Empire | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2235 | The Soviet Experiment, 1917-1991 (Capped at 80) | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2239 | Colonialism and Post-Colonialism in Egypt and Sudan | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2240 | Greece from ancient times to the 21st century: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the past | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2241 | The History of Modern Germany, 1806 until today | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2242 | Researching History (Capped at 110) | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2252 | Aotearoa New Zealand: From acquisition to autonomy | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2259 | The Russian Empire from Peter the Great to Lenin | 20 | 2 |
| LAS2030 | Comparative History of Hispano-America and Brazil: from Independence to the Mexican Revolution 1789/1810-1917 (not capped) | 20 | 1 |
Students who wish to take an Erasmus Student Exchange module as part of History should consult and obtain the approval of the Combined Honours Degree Programme Director as well as the HIS2100/HIS2101 Module Leader. Students may undertake the Erasmus programme which would entail undertaking 60 credits during an entire semester in an Erasmus-partner institution.
| Module Code | Module Title | Credit Value | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIS2100 | Erasmus Student exchange (not capped) | 60 | 1 |
| HIS2101 | Erasmus Student exchange (not capped) | 60 | 2 |
Stage 3
Find out about History modules for Stage 3.
All Stage 3 modules are capped at 20 except HIS3000, HIS3020 HIS3030 & ARA3031 which are not capped and HIS3135, HIS3240 & HIS3337 which are capped at 40.
Select the module code for specific module information including the module summary and aims, knowledge and skills you'll gain, and the module leader.
Students are allowed to take a maximum of two specialist subject modules; one in each Semester. Students studying 60 or 80 credits in History can do so by taking two special subject modules (one in each Semester) plus uncapped modules i.e. HIS3000, HIS3020 and HIS3030.
At module pre-registration, students do not select their two special subject modules. Instead they pre-register for substitute modules (listed below) and then submit their preferences for special subject modules (in ranked order) using a separate web based form (the link for which will be circulated) which will be open between 09:00am on Thursday 9th May 2019 and mid-day on Monday 13th May 2019.
| Module Code | Module Title | Credit Value | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIS0001 | Semester 1 substitute for stage 3 HIS capped special subject | 20 | 1 |
| HIS0002 | Semester 2 substitute for stage 3 HIS capped special subject | 20 | 2 |
Students who select BOTH substitute modules (i.e. HIS0001 and HIS0002) must select 10 different modules form the list below with at least 4 from each Semester.
Students who select ONE of the substitute modules (i.e. HIS0001 OR HIS0002) must select 5 different modules from the correct Semester from the list below.
| Module Code | Module Title | Credit Value | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARA3013 | Early Medieval Northern Europe (not capped) | 20 | 2 |
| ARA3016 | The Archaeology of Byzantium and its Neighbours (not capped) | 20 | 1 |
| ARA3031 | Historical Archaeology of Britain 1500-Present (not capped) | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3000 | Reading History (not capped) | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3020 | Writing History (Dissertation) (not capped) | 40 | 1&2 |
| HIS3030 | History and Society (not capped) | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3035 | Elizabeth I: The Politics of Religion | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3131 | China in Revolution | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3134 | The Great Patriotic War and its Aftermath | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3135 | The Nazi New Order in Europe | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3181 | The American Civil War, 1861 - 1865 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3203 | Madness, Nerves and Narratives in Georgian Britain, c. 1714-1830 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3204 | The English Revolution, 1640-1660 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3206 | The Irish Revolution, 1879-1923 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3212 | Reconstruction and the New South, 1865-1914 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3219 | Living Together: Christians, Muslims and Jews in Medieval Iberia | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3220 | British Foreign Policy since Suez | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3221 | Birth Control in the 19th & 20th Centuries | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3222 | Jarrow Crusade | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3229 | The Spanish Second Republic and Civil War, 1931-1939 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3232 | Civil Rights and Armalites; Northern Ireland since 1969 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3235 | Genocide and Justice in the Twentieth Century: From the Armenian Genocide to the International Criminal Court | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3240 | Civil Rights in America, 1948 - 1975 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3285 | Post-Revolutionary Mexico: From Zapata to the Zapatistas | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3295 | Royal Portraits: Christian Kings and Kingship, c.870 - c. 930 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3321 | Viking-Age Scandinavia | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3326 | Women in Colonial South Asia: Tradition, Reform and Modernity | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3328 | Imagined Futures | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3330 | Islamism and its Origins | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3331 | God's Terrible Voice: the experience and impact of Plague in England, 1500-1722 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3334 | Talking Cures and Troubles: An Oral History of Health and Medicine in Britain, c. 1948 - 2000 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3336 | Punishing the Criminal Dead: Crime, Culture, and Corpses in Modern Britain | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3337 | Russian Cities and Culture from Peter the Great to the Revolution | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3341 | Lunatic to Citizen? Madness and Society since 1900 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3344 | The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1961 - 1990 | 20 | 2 |