BA History
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 104 tariff points from A levels or combination with Extended Project / BTEC / Cambridge Technical. A level: BCC BTEC/Cambridge Technical: DMM IB: 28 points
About this course
BA (Hons) History, covering the medieval period to the present day. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Project Management, and Historical Research. The degree culminates in a 10,500-word dissertation on a self-selected topic. A heritage practice work placement module provides experience in the collection and preservation of historical materials.
Modules
- The Renaissance and Reformation World, 1300-1650
- Making History
- War and Peace: Twentieth-Century Europe and Global Conflict
- The Tudors 1485 – 1603
- The United States: An Introduction (1763 – The Present)
- Witchcraft and Magic in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800
- Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Africa
- Ideologies, Politics and Culture
- Approaches to Research
- Re-Litigating the Past: State, Media and Historical Injustice in Contemporary Britain
- Women and Gender: 1000-1600
- Kingdom of Heaven: Crusading and the Holy Land: 1095-1291
- Culture and Civilisation in Late Medieval England: C.1200-1550
- Art & Knowledge in Europe: From Early Renaissance to Baroque: 1250-1650
- A Social History of Early Modern England: 1550-1750
- Enlightenment Europe: 1688-1789
- Environment and State in Britain Since 1945
- Fascism and Post-Fascism in Europe
- Heritage in Practice: Work Placements for History Students
- Identity and Conflict in Russia and Eurasia
- Study Visit
- Dissertation
- British Culture Wars
- France and the Modern World
- Birds, Beasts and Bestiaries: Animals and Animal Symbolism in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe: C.1100-1650
- Henry VIII and Court Culture 1509-1547: Faction, Faith and Fornication
- Commerce and Consumption in Early Modern England: C. 1600-1750
- Louis XVI’s France: 1643-1715
- Vice to Virtue? The Origins and Outcomes of the French Revolution: 1744-94
- Kingship, Queenship and Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- The Cultural History of Death
- Unforgettable Corpses: Literature, Cultural Memory and the First World War
- A Global History of the Cold War
- Dictatorship, Conformity and Resistance in Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Russia
- Globalisation and Its Malcontents
- Gothic, Romanticism and Women’s Writing: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen
- International Law