BA History
Entry requirements
A level: ABB
About this course
BA in History. Core topics include Research Methods. A History in Practice module sequence develops source analysis and historical argumentation across the first two years, and optional modules span a wide chronological and geographical range. An original research dissertation is completed in the final year.
Modules
- The Making of The Modern World, 1750-1970
- History in Practice Part 1: Questions, Frameworks and Audiences.
- History in Practice Part 2: Sources, Evidence and Argument.
- Global Histories
- A World Full of Gods
- Projecting the Past: Film, Media and Heritage
- Inventing a Nation: Politics, Culture and Heritage
- Medieval Worlds, AD 500 -1500
- Renaissance, Reformation and Revolution
- The Near East, Greece and Rome, 1000-323 BCE
- Empires East and West, 323 BCE to 680 CE
- Reading History
- Making History: Historians, Evidence, Audiences
- Debating History
- Past, Present and Future
- Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
- Everyday Life in Medieval Britain c1200–1600
- A History of the Supernatural
- Accessible Pasts
- The British Civil Wars
- European Enlightenment(s): The View from the Margins
- America: From Revolution to Reconstruction
- Modern France
- Europe's Dark Century
- Close Neighbours, Dangerous Foes: China, Japan and Modern East Asia
- Politics and People in Modern Britain: Protest, citizenship and the state
- Environmental Histories
- Anti-Colonial Resistance
- Chwyldro, Diwylliant a Radicaliaeth, 1789–1914
- Heroes and Villains in the Middle Ages
- Myth, Narrative, and Identity: Storytelling and Society
- Researching History: Dissertation
- Histories of Asia: Ancient to Early Medieval
- War, Violence and Imperialism in the Ancient World
- Bodies and the Embodied Experience in the Ancient World
- Age of Arthur: Myths, History and Identity in Medieval Britain
- Crusading Worlds
- East Asia in a Global Second World War
- Spies and Espionage in the Medieval World
- Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1750
- Health and Illness in Early Modern Britain
- Mobile Lives: Travel, Exile, and Migration in the Early Modern World
- Native American History
- Utopias of Extremism: Revolutions in Comparative Context
- Czechoslovakia: The Twentieth Century in Miniature
- Inside the Third Reich
- Violence and Ideology in the Inter-War Soviet Union
- Change, Conflict, and Mass Mobilisation in Republican China, 1911-1945
- Peripheral Reverberations of the French Revolution
- Mayhem and murder: Investigating the Victorian Underworld
- The Making of British Socialism
- Britain at War: Culture and Politics on the Home Front, 1939-1945
- Public and Private: Gender, Identities and Power in Twentieth Century Britain
- Jews, Europe and the World
- Meiji Restoration, Meiji Revolution – Japan’s 19th century transformation
- City Lives: Identity, Culture and Violence in Early Modern Europe
- Cold War Cultures: Power, Conformity, and Dissent c. 1948–1990