Core modules
You will take three core modules.
You can find out more about staff working on modern history topics on our research strengths page. The exact availability of staff to supervise MA dissertations varies from year to year.
- Modernity and Power: Individuals and the State in the Modern World
- Dissertation in History
- Research Presentation for Historians
You will choose 75 credits of option modules. You will normally take 30 credits of options in semester one and 45 credits in semester two, including one 30 credit option. Part-time students will normally take 15 credits of option in semester one of the first year, leaving the remaining 15 credits until year two.
This 75 credit selection can include up to 30 credits from the guided list of non-history modules (see guided modules tab).
The following list includes the full range of options that we currently offer. A selection of these will be available each year and new modules may be added.
- Approaches and Methods in Media History
- Autobiography, Identity and the Self in Muslim South Asia
- Before Facebook: Social Networks in History
- Biopolitics: Medicine, Meaning and Power
- Black Power: Race, Gender, and Liberation in the United States and Beyond
- Cold War Histories
- Debating Cultural Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
- Food and Drink
- History in Fiction
- History on Screen
- Human Rights in Modern History
- Imagining the Republic: Irish Republicanism, 1798-1998
- International Order in the Twentieth Century
- Microhistory and the History of Everyday Life
- Oral History
- Policing the Family: Welfare, Eugenics and Love in Early 20th Century Britain
- Presenting the Past: Making History Public
- Public History and Policy: Theory and Practice
- Race and Racism in Historical Perspective
- Research Skills for Historians
- Sex and Power: The Politics of Women's Liberation in Modern Britain
- Stories of Activism, 1960 to the Present
- The Animal Turn: human and non-human animals in history
- The Global Cold War
- The Japanese Empire in East Asia, 1895-1945
- The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975
- The U.S. Civil War in Global Context
- Under Attack: The Home Front during the Cold War
- Voices of the Great War: Gender, Experience and Violence in Great Britain and Germany, 1914-1918
- Wikipedia and Medieval History
- Women and Power
- Work Placement
- Worlds of Labour: Working Class Lives in Colonial South Asia
