BA History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 120 tariff points - typically H5 H6 H6 or equivalent.
About this course
BA (Hons) History, spanning over 1,500 years from the fall of the Roman Empire to the 21st century. Core topics include Historical Research, Research Methods, Global & Comparative Perspective, and Project Management. Students complete an Undergraduate Dissertation in the final year, supported by a dedicated design and planning module. The course is based in Canterbury, with access to collections at the National Archives, the Imperial War Museum and Canterbury Cathedral.
Modules
- Controversial Histories
- History Makers
- Early Medieval History, (c. 400 – c.1050)
- Late Medieval History, (c. 1050 – c. 1450)
- The Rise of the United States Pt. 1
- The Rise of the United States Pt. 2
- The Making of Modern Europe
- A Global History of Empire
- Histories of Health and Medicine since 1800
- Renaissance to the Enlightenment
- The Making of Modern Britain
- War and Society in Europe, c.1789-1945
- The Medieval World: Power and Faith
- The Modern World: Revolution and Crisis
- Undergraduate Dissertation: Design and Planning
- A History of Eastern Europe in 10 Objects
- Armies at War, 1792-1815
- Blitzkrieg to Baghdad: Armoured Warfare in the Theory, Practice and Imagery, 1916-2003
- Cholera to Climate Change: Environment and Society in Modern Britain
- Churchill’s Armies: The Armies of the British Empire and the Second World War
- Civil War America, 1848-1877
- Conquest and Resistance in Southern Africa, 1750-1918
- Europe in Extremes: Communism, Fascism and Nazism, 1917-1939
- From Crisis to Revolution: France 1774-1799
- How the West was Won (or Lost): The American West in the 19th Century
- Marvels, Monsters and Freaks 1780-1920
- Modern German History since 1918
- Surgery, Science and Society since 1750
- Telegraph to Television: War and the British Media, 1853-1945
- The Art of Death: Representations, Rituals & Records in Medieval Europe
- The Cold War
- The Crusades
- The German Wars of Unification, c.1813-1871
- The Imperial Presidency: U.S. Foreign Policy from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama
- ‘The Jewel in the Crown’: India and the Making of Imperial Britain
- Vikings: A Global Saga
- Violence and Justice in Medieval Europe (c.500-c.1400).
- War and Modern Medicine 1850-1950
- Undergraduate History Dissertation
- Fight the Power: African American History from Jim Crow to Black Lives Matter
- From Buffalo Bill to Bison Burgers: The American West in the 20th Century
- Global Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Modern Era
- Gothic Art: Image and Imagination in Europe
- Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes: A History of the Modern Body (1800-1950)
- To Do No Harm: Medical Ethics and Patient Rights in the Modern World, 1800-2000
- From ‘Madness’ to Mindfulness: Mental Health since 1850.
- Terror, Murder and Bloodshed: The Renaissance in Italy and beyond, c.1400-c.1550
- The American Revolution
- Cultural History of the Great War: Britain, France, and Germany in Comparison
- The Hundred Years’ War, c.1337-1453
- The Nature of Command
- Capitalism: Classes, Cultures & Conflicts
- Conquests, Cultures and Identities: England AD 800-1100
- From Mercenaries to Freedom Fighters: Transnational Soldiering, c.1700-2020
- Ireland: A Military History since 1689
- Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa
- Loyalists: The Wrong Side of the American Independence
- Making Room for Medicine: Medical Space, Environment and Health
- Napoleon and the World, 1799-1815
- Saints, Relics & Churches in Medieval Europe, c.500-1500
- Sex, Health and Deviance in Britain since 1800
- The Carolingians and the Invention of Order
- The Eternal Nazi: Global Legacies of the Third Reich
- The International History of the Vietnam Wars
- The Legacy of the Second World War
- The Renaissance: Nature, Magic and Knowledge
- The Spanish Second Republic and Civil War, 1931-1939
- War, Peace and Diplomacy in the Late Middle Ages, c.1200 – c.1450