12 monthsProgramme duration
36,800 GBPTuition Fee/year
30 Jul, 2027Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
History
Degree
MA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
This MA offers advanced-level teaching by leading historians in many historical fields. On the course, you can follow one of four pathways:
- Modern British History You will learn about modern British history’s complexity, diversity and vibrancy as a field of study. You will identify key areas of historiographical debate, think critically about where the field’s boundaries lie and question what constitutes modern British history in its temporal and spatial dimensions. The pathway encourages you to problematise the idea of ‘national history’, providing opportunities to explore the transnational, imperial, global and comparative dimensions of political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual life within a ‘British history’ framework.
- Environment and Economy You will explore the connections between environmental, economic, and socio-political change over the long term. You will examine the relationship between humans and their environment, and interrogate connections between the Industrial Revolution, technological development, resource extraction and environmental protection, colonialism, and economic inequality. The core module will help you engage with cutting-edge debates on the Great Divergence, the Anthropocene, ecological imperialism, and climate change. The pathway reflects the department’s research strengths in the histories of capitalism, colonialism, and human–animal relations, extending from the medieval to the modern period.
- Empires and Global History You will examine and interrogate a set of overlapping concerns that have not only shaped global history, imperial history, and histories of empire but also stirred debate about the dividing line between such historiographical approaches. The first is with scale in historical analysis and the effort to move beyond the nation-state to consider empire, region, continent, the terrestrial or terraqueous globe, and even the planet as a unit of inquiry. The second is with connections between historical agents across and between these units. The last is with comparisons across space and time. Rather than being entirely pacific or underpinning progress, some connections supported the making or deepening of division, inequality, coercion, and violence.
- Culture, Ideas, and Identities You will examine culturally constructed aspects of historical experience. Its subject matter includes the wide variety of meaning-laden objects and practices produced in the past or engaged in by different segments of society. Thus, it examines the history of what traditionally has been identified as ‘culture with a capital “C”,’ including the ideas articulated by intellectual elites.
Each pathway includes a compulsory core module that introduces the key theories, methods and debates in its field. Optional modules allow you to explore historical subjects related to your chosen pathway, while a wide range of elective modules gives you the flexibility to tailor your degree to your interests.
Please note that pathway availability may vary from year to year, depending on student demand and staff availability.
Programme overview
Main Subject
History
Degree
MA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
This MA offers advanced-level teaching by leading historians in many historical fields. On the course, you can follow one of four pathways:
- Modern British History You will learn about modern British history’s complexity, diversity and vibrancy as a field of study. You will identify key areas of historiographical debate, think critically about where the field’s boundaries lie and question what constitutes modern British history in its temporal and spatial dimensions. The pathway encourages you to problematise the idea of ‘national history’, providing opportunities to explore the transnational, imperial, global and comparative dimensions of political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual life within a ‘British history’ framework.
- Environment and Economy You will explore the connections between environmental, economic, and socio-political change over the long term. You will examine the relationship between humans and their environment, and interrogate connections between the Industrial Revolution, technological development, resource extraction and environmental protection, colonialism, and economic inequality. The core module will help you engage with cutting-edge debates on the Great Divergence, the Anthropocene, ecological imperialism, and climate change. The pathway reflects the department’s research strengths in the histories of capitalism, colonialism, and human–animal relations, extending from the medieval to the modern period.
- Empires and Global History You will examine and interrogate a set of overlapping concerns that have not only shaped global history, imperial history, and histories of empire but also stirred debate about the dividing line between such historiographical approaches. The first is with scale in historical analysis and the effort to move beyond the nation-state to consider empire, region, continent, the terrestrial or terraqueous globe, and even the planet as a unit of inquiry. The second is with connections between historical agents across and between these units. The last is with comparisons across space and time. Rather than being entirely pacific or underpinning progress, some connections supported the making or deepening of division, inequality, coercion, and violence.
- Culture, Ideas, and Identities You will examine culturally constructed aspects of historical experience. Its subject matter includes the wide variety of meaning-laden objects and practices produced in the past or engaged in by different segments of society. Thus, it examines the history of what traditionally has been identified as ‘culture with a capital “C”,’ including the ideas articulated by intellectual elites.
Each pathway includes a compulsory core module that introduces the key theories, methods and debates in its field. Optional modules allow you to explore historical subjects related to your chosen pathway, while a wide range of elective modules gives you the flexibility to tailor your degree to your interests.
Please note that pathway availability may vary from year to year, depending on student demand and staff availability.
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