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History Modules 2025/6

Stage One Modules

CodeModule TitleCreditsTerm(s)ELE link
HIH1002 Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: Britain Since 1945152View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1014 The Body in Eighteenth-Century Britain152View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1042 Murder in Early Modern England151 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1043 The Collapse of Communism in Central-Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union151 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1057 The Opium War: the British Empire encounters the Middle Kingdom151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1063 Sex, Marx and Rock 'n' Roll: The Soviet 'Sixties', 1956-68151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1137 Becoming a Historian: Core151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1139 Becoming a Historian: Extended152View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1141 Plants and People in the long Eighteenth Century152View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1142 Women, Gender and Education in Britain, c.1850-2000151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1143 Antisemitism and Assimilation: Images of Jews in the Modern World151 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1300 Before Eugenics: Science, Race and Exploration152View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1301 An Imperial Health Service: Empire and the British National Health Service152View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1402 Britain, America and the Global Order, 1846-1946152View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1411 From Wigan Pier to Piccadilly: Britain between the Wars152View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1421 Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History302View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1422 Understanding Modern History301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1501 The Viking Phenomenon151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1505 The First Crusade151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1506 The First Day of the Somme151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1532 The History of Strategic Thinking152View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1585 Ladies of the Night: Prostitution in the Victorian World151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1586 Early Modern Venice: Representations and Myths151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1596 The Good War? The United States in World War II151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1598 The Medieval Inquisition151 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1612 Renaissance Florence 1350-1550151View on ELE (current students only)
HIH1618 Body, Border, Partition: Understanding Violence in South Asia152View on ELE (current students only)

Stage Two Modules

CodeModule TitleCreditsTerm(s)ELE link
HIH2002 Uses of the Past301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2011A Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe302View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2036A Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2037 American Frontiers: The West in U.S. History and Mythology302View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2137A Inventing Modern Man: Constructions of Mind, Body and the Individual, 1400-1800301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2138A History of Development: Ideologies, Politics and Projects302View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2145A Spain from Absolutism to Democracy301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2185A China in the World, 1500-1840301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2186A Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England302View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2208A Medieval Paris301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2210A The Russian Empire, 1689-1917302View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2218A Religion, Society and Culture in Tudor England301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2237 Doing History in the Digital Age302View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2238 Slavery, Revolution, Independence: Saint-Domingue and Haiti, 1685-1838302View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2241 Rise and Demise of Communism in Global Perspective301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2242 British Settler Colonialism and its Legacies301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2243 Britain and Ireland: Union, Conflict, and Independence, 1798-1949301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2590 An Age of Iron? Europe in the Tenth Century302View on ELE (current students only)
HIH2591 Philip Augustus and the Making of France, 1180-1223301View on ELE (current students only)

Stage Three Modules

CodeModule TitleCreditsTerm(s)ELE link
HIH3005 General Third-Year Dissertation301 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3006 Research Project Dissertation302View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3330 Truth301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3331 Elites301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3333 Disease301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3334 War301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3335 Violence301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3336 Revolution301View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3415 Everyday Stalinism: Life in the Soviet Union, 1928-53601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3416 Critics of Empire601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3417 The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3418 The Russian Revolution601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3421 Magic in the Middle Ages601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3422 Street Protest and Social Movements in the Modern Era601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3423 The Holocaust and Nazi Occupation of Eastern Europe, 1939-1945601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3430 From the Grand Tour to Gladiator: Modern encounters with the ancient world601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3431 The Population Problem: Conservation, Eugenics, and Food in the Twentieth Century601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3433 Beyond Cannibalism: Indigenous Peoples and the European Colonisation of Brazil, 1500-1822 601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3434 The Body in Early Modern England601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3437 Death to the Traitors: Rebellion and Resisting Tyranny in the Middle Ages601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3441 Britons Abroad: The Experience of Travel, c. 1650-1900601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3446 The Celtic Frontier601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3450 Decolonisation and Colonial Conflict601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3453 Violence or Non-Violence? Gandhi and Popular Movements in India, 1915-1950601 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HIH3455 Sexualities 301View on ELE (current students only)

Masters Modules

CodeModule TitleCreditsTerm(s)ELE link
HISM001 Critical Approaches to Early Modern History301View on ELE (current students only)
HISM002 Critical Approaches to Maritime and Naval History301View on ELE (current students only)
HISM003 Critical Approaches to Imperial and Global History301View on ELE (current students only)
HISM039 History in Public: A Workplace Project301, 2 and 3View on ELE (current students only)
HISM043 Critical Approaches to the History of Violence and Conflict301View on ELE (current students only)
HISM045 Medieval Masterclass302View on ELE (current students only)
HISM185 Supervised Independent Study in the Humanities151 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HISM186 Supervised Independent Study in the Humanities301 and 2View on ELE (current students only)
HISM187 Critical Approaches to Modern British History301View on ELE (current students only)
HISM400 Dissertation in History601, 2 and 3View on ELE (current students only)
HISM403 Dissertation in History902 and 3View on ELE (current students only)
HISM479 Sexual Discoveries: the Reception, Interpretation and Purpose of Queer History302View on ELE (current students only)