BA History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4
About this course
BA (Hons) in History, covering modern-period history across Britain, Europe, and the wider world. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Social & Cultural Analysis. A final-year dissertation is required, and an optional placement year provides professional experience. The course has access to London-based archives including The National Archives and the Imperial War Museum.
Modules
- Contemporary Challenges
- Fundamentals of the Social Sciences
- Special Subjects A
- Special Subjects B
- Historians and their Craft
- The First World War: Causes, Course, Consequences
- Colonialism and Decolonization in Africa
- Fascist Italy, 1919-1945: Revolution, Conflict and Collapse
- Gender, Sexuality and Feminism
- Insurgency and Counter-insurgency
- Issues in American Politics
- Middle East: Societies, Religion and Politics
- National Security Intelligence
- South Asia: Cultures, Societies and Development
- The State and Revolution
- Struggles for Emancipation
- Advanced Research Skills for History
- Dissertation
- Apocalypse! Crisis and Society
- The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Lawyers, Guns and Money: Making the Modern World System
- Making the Social
- Marx and the Critique of Political Economy
- Primary Source Workshop
- The Second World War
- Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
- Violence and Conflict in Eastern Africa
- War and Humanitarianism