BA (Hons) History modules

Year 1 core modules

• Europe since 1870
• Modern Britain
• The Reformation: England and Europe 1520 -1560

and one optional module

• Ancient Greece: History, Culture and Society
• Themes in American History and Culture

Year 2 core module

• War and Society

and four optional modules

• An Age of Transition: English History, 1558-1707
• Chaucer's England
• Consensus Britain: Citizens, State and Culture 1945-79
• Festive Histories
• History of Germany, 1850-1990
• History of Scandinavia, 1890-1970
• Italian Fascism
• North East England, 1500-1700
• Revolutionary France
• Soviet Russia, 1917-1940
• The Cold War
• Third Reich

Final-year core module

• Dissertation

and three optional modules

• Culture and Politics in the USA, 1945-1974
• Culture, Politics and Society in the Age of Thatcher
• Images of Alexander the Great
• Inhumane Bondage: Slavery, Freedom and the American Tropics
• James II
• Our Friends in the North: Images and Representations of the North of England
• Rome: Foundation, Republic and Empire
• State and Revolution: Political thought from Hobbes to Lenin
• Subject and Citizens: Gender, Race and Class in American History
• The Early Stuart Age, 1603-1660
• The People’s War: Making the Home front in Britain 1939-45
• The Reign of Elizabeth I, Queen and Court
• The Rise of the Nazis
• Theories of Fascism

Modules offered may vary.