Modules
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We have a huge range of modules on offer for our undergraduate students.
You can choose modules that interest you by region, theme or period. An indicative list of current modules is provided below. The offering will vary from year to year. We constantly review modules based on our student feedback, and offer new module choices each year.
In your third year, you will take a primary source-intensive Special Subject module. You can find out out Special Subjects here.
Modules in a Minute
You can see some of our academics dicsussing their modules and what makes them unique on this YouTube playlist
- HST4102 – The Medieval World: Structures and Mentalities
- HST4107 – Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy
- HST4202 – Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800
- HST4312 – Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
- HST4314 – Building the American Nation: 1776-1896
- HST4315 – Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
- HST4316 – Europe in a Global Context since 1800
- HST4602 – History in Practice
- HST4603 – The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History
- HST4604 – Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History
- HST4605 – Race and the Desire for Difference
- HST4606 - A Visual History of London
- HST4607 – Controversies of Science and Technology in the Making of the Modern World
- HST5100 - Women and Gender in Medieval Islam
- HST5106 - Latin for Medievalists II
- HST5109 – Outsiders in the Middle Ages
- HST5114 – Women and Gender in Late Medieval England, c. 1300-1500
- HST5116 – From Muhammad to the Ottomans: A History of Medieval Islamic Societies
- HST5120 - Medieval London: Pubs, Plague-pits and Cathedrals
- HST5123 – The Black Death: A Global History of Catastrophe and Transformation
- HST5124 – Latin for Medievalists I
- HST5214 – Africa in Europe: Renaissance Encounters, c. 1440-1650
- HST5220 – Violence in Early Modern Europe
- HST5223 – Urban Lives in Reformation Europe
- HST5224 – Piracy and Civilisation: Antiquity to the Golden Age
- HST5226 – The 'Honourable' Company: The Worlds of the English East India Company, 1600-1765
- HST5227 – The Buildings of London I: From the Ashes of Fire to the Capital of Empire
- HST5305 – British Horror: Film, Television and Literature
- HST5314 - Madness and Medicine in Modern Britain
- HST5342 - Japanese Film: History, Culture and Fantasy
- HST5350 – The American Century: The History of the United States, 1900-2000
- HST5351 - Contemporary Art and Society
- HST5359 - Freedom and Nationhood: The State in Post-Colonial Africa, 1956 - 2006
- HST5360 - Violence and Modernity in Twentieth Century India
- HST5364 – The Struggle for Italy: 1915-1996
- HST5366 - Anglo-American Relations, 1939-91
- HST5367 - Britain and Europe, 1945-2016
- HST5377 – American Populism: From Thomas Paine to Donald Trump
- HST5383 – Music and Social Change in Modern Britain, from Ballads to Britpop
- HST5370 – Art and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
- HST5385 – From Prophecy to Revolution: Resistance and Insurgency against European Empire
- HST5386 – From the Tsars to the Bolsheviks: Russia 1801-1921
- HST5387 – Totalitarianism: Authoritarian Politics in History and Theory, 1920-2003
- HST5405 - Human Rights in History: Origins, Foundations, Prospects
- HST5406 – Medicine from the Renaissance to Pharmageddon
- HST5408 – Animal Madness in the Human Zoo: The History of Animal Experimentation and the Human Condition
- HST5410 – (re)Writing History
- HST5411 – A Short Intellectual History of Love
- HST5412 – How Do You Know? From the Culture of Facts to Post-Truth Society (16th-21st Centuries)
- HST5606 - London and its Museums
- HST5608 - London on Film: Representing the City in British and American Cinema
- HST5613 – London in the First World War: Building a Digital History
- HST5900 – History Internship
- HST6106 - Islam and the West in the Middle Ages
- HST6114 – 1066! The Norman Conquest
- HST6115 – Latin for Medievalists III
- HST6200 - The Hussites: Reform, Revolution and Apocalypse in the Fifteenth Century
- HST6212 - The World that Jane Austen Knew: Women, Gender and Culture in England
- HST6215 - Witches, Demons and Magic in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- HST6216 – History from the Margins: Minorities in Early Modern Europe
- HST6217 – Renaissance Humanism 1350 - 1650
- HST6218 – Travel, Migration and Mobility in Britain, 1500-1700
- HST6301 - Cold War America 1945-1975
- HST6322 - The British Empire in Political Thought from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
- HST6329 - The Germans and the Jews since 1871
- HST6339 – The Atlantic Slave Trade: Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
- HST6349 – Africa Bound: Politics, Society, and Power during the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- HST6354 – The Supernatural in Modern Britain
- HST6356 – An Excess of Colonialism': Empire, Race and Violence
- HST6365 - Gotham: The Making of New York City 1825 - 2001
- HST6367 - Heritage After Empire: Decolonising Public History
- HST6372 – Europe in Revolution: 1848
- HST6374 – Alfred Hitchcock and the New Film History
- HST6377 – The Modern Caribbean: Migration, Radicalism and Revolt
- HST6378 – Modern Art in Britain, Europe, and America: 1900-1950
- HST6380 – American Horror Stories: The Fiction and Film Worlds of Stephen King from Carrie to It
- HST6382 – The Troubles in Northern Ireland
- HST6383 – Representations of Jews and Judaism in Film
- HST6385 – Visualising Disease in Victorian Britain
- HST6386 – Sea Power and Empire: Piracy, Race and Modernity
- HST6387 – The Politics of Irish Literature, from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
- HST6403 - The History of Emotions
- HST6405 - Video Games: History, Culture and Representation from Pac-Man to Pokémon
- HST6700 – History Research Dissertation
- HST6710 – Saladin, Richard the Lionheart & the Third Crusade
- HST6712 – The Enthronement of Learning: Medieval Universities and their Legacy
- HST6714 – Apocalypse Now: Crisis, Change and Later Medieval Mentalities
- HST6720 – Behind Closed Doors: Houses, Interiors and Domestic Life, c. 1660-c1830
- HST6730 – The Kennedy Years (I) and (II)
- HST6735 – Reinventing Ourselves: Psychology, Sex and Chemistry in Modern Britain
- HST6738 – Making Thatcher's Britain: The Thatcher Revolution, 1975-1997
- HST6740 – We the People: Democracy in America, 1787-1861
- HST6741 – The War on Terror
- HST6742 – Women, Family and Work in Post-War Britain
- HST6743 – The Age of Revolutions: Global Perspectives
- HST6746 – The Idea of 'the West': A History from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
- HST6747 – Anxieties of Empire: Rumours, Rebellion and the Imperial Imagination
- HST6749 - The Holocaust and its Aftermath in Film and Literature
- HST6750 – Berlin in the Twentieth Century
- HST6751 – The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
- HST6754 – Pre-Modern Global History Special Subject
- HST6755 – A Golden Age? The Life and Times of Elizabeth I
- HST6756 – Global Fascism: A Colonial History from Blackshirt Invasion to Black Power Anti-fascism
- HST6757 – Race, Ethnicity and Immigration: Britain from the 1905 Aliens Act to Brexit
- Intercollegiate Modules 2020 - 2021
- ESH6028 - Solitude in Life and Letters in Enlightenment Britain
- HST6759 - History from the Margins: Minorities in Early Modern Europe
- HST6761 - American Film History: Hollywood and the Second World War
- HST7001 – Method and Practice in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History
- HST7203 – Early Modern Theories of State
- HST7316 – Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries
- HST7319 – In the Shadow of the French Revolution: Political Thought 1789-1890
- HST7603 – Dissertation - MA History of Political Thought and Intellectual History
- HST7619 – The Creation of Modern London, 1666-1945
- HST7700 – Latin for MA students
- HST7701 – Religion and the Age of Enlightenment
- HST7702 – Empire and Early Modern Political Thought
Further information
Broadly speaking, Level 4 modules are aimed at first year undergraduates, Level 5 modules at second year undergraduates and Level 6 modules at third years.
Level 6 Special Subjects are for third years. A Special Subject is an in-depth module which focuses in great detail on a short historical period.
They allow you to intensively study primary sources (perhaps including documents, novels, photograph, films memoirs, pictures, etc.) giving you a detailed and complex understanding of your subject.
Special subjects are taught in small group seminars, so you can discuss and develop your work and ideas in an intensive group environment.
Find out more about our modules.