BA Military History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 120 tariff points - typically H5 H6 H6 or equivalent.
About this course
BA (Hons) in History, with a focus on military and social dimensions of warfare across multiple periods. Core topics include Signal Processing, Research Methods, Project Management, Historical Research, and Global & Comparative Perspective. An independent dissertation in the final year follows a preparatory design and planning module.
Modules
- Understanding Military History
- Battles in Military History
- Redcoats: The British Army and Society c.1660-1902
- The British Army in the Age of Total War
- A Global History of Empire
- Histories of Health and Medicine since 1800
- Renaissance to the Enlightenment
- War and Society in Europe, c.1789-1945
- The Modern World: Revolution and Crisis
- Undergraduate Dissertation: Design and Planning
- Armies at War, 1914-1918
- 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
- Warriors, Myths and Migrants: the Early Medieval Kingdoms
- 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