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
- HST4121 – Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy
- HST4221 – Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800
- HST4624 – Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
- HST4323 – Building the American Nation: 1776-1896
- HST4321 – Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
- HST4322 – Europe in a Global Context since 1800
- HST4621 – History in Practice
- HST4623 – The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History
- HST4622 – Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History
- HST5615 – Race and the Desire for Difference
- HST4625 – Controversies of Science and Technology in the Making of the Modern World
- HST5100 - Women and Gender in Medieval Islam
- HST5106 - Latin for Medievalists II
- 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
- HST5220 – Violence in Early Modern Europe
- HST5224 – Piracy and Civilisation: Antiquity to the Golden Age
- 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
- HST5360 - Violence and Modernity in Twentieth Century India
- HST5377 – American Populism: From Thomas Paine to Donald Trump
- HST5901 History Research Project
- HST5390 - Nice Girls, Bad Girls and Bitches: British Women and Gender from the Vote to Thatcher
- HST5396 - Black Metropolis: London, New York and Paris from Imperialism to Decolonisation
- HST6392 - Searching For Sisterhood: Feminist Activism in Britain 1968-1988
- HST6116 - Islam in Africa and the Indian Subcontinent: Conquest, Islamisation and Co-existence
- HST6219 - Art and Power in Early Modern Europe
- HST6754 - The Formation of the Early Islamic World: Muslims, Jews and Christians, 600-945 CE
- HST5389 - Angels, Spinsters and Whores: British Women and Gender from Victoria to the Vote
- HST5395 - Race in the United States: Plantation Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
- HST5391 - A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890 - 1990
- HST5397 - The Soviet Union: Red Flag Unfurled, 1917-1991
- HST6411 - Decolonisation and History
- HST5413 - Art and the City from Michelangelo to Blade Runner
- HST5365 - Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain, 1830 - 1928
- HST5370 – Art and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
- HST6766 - The First Age of Globalisation: Money, Race, and Empire 1850-1933
- HST5387 – Totalitarianism: Authoritarian Politics in History and Theory, 1920-2003
- HST5405 - Human Rights in History: Origins, Foundations, Prospects
- HST5408 – Animal Madness in the Human Zoo: The History of Animal Experimentation and the Human Condition
- HST5614 - History of Political Thought
- HST5606 - London and its Museums
- HST5608 - London on Film: Representing the City in British and American Cinema
- HST5900 – History Internship
- HST6106 - Islam and the West in the Middle Ages
- HST6713 - Lives, Letters and Lifestyles: English Political Society during the Wars of the Roses
- HST6114 – 1066! The Norman Conquest
- HST6759 – History from the Margins: Minorities in Early Modern Europe
- HST6301 - Cold War America 1945-1975
- HST6329 - The Germans and the Jews since 1871
- HST5394 - Consumed: American Consumer Culture from the 18th to the 21st century
- HST6339 – The Atlantic Slave Trade: Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
- HST6354 – The Supernatural in Modern Britain
- HST6372 – Europe in Revolution: 1848
- 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
- HST6386 – Sea Power and Empire: Piracy, Race and Modernity
- HST6404 – The Darwinian Revolution: The History of a Dangerous Idea
- HST6405 - Video Games: History, Culture and Representation from Pac-Man to Pokémon
- HST6710 – Saladin, Richard the Lionheart & the Third Crusade
- HST6720 – Behind Closed Doors: Houses, Interiors and Domestic Life, c. 1660-1830
- HST6763 - Inside Hitler's Germany: Power, Persecution, and Resistance
- HST6730 – The Kennedy Years (I) and (II)
- HST6735 – Reinventing Ourselves: Psychology, Sex and Chemistry in Modern Britain
- HST6737 – The 'Heart of Darkness'? Identity, Power and Politics in the Congo c.1870-2010
- HST6741 – The War on Terror
- HST6743 – The Age of Revolutions: Global Perspectives
- HST6767 - Global History of Pandemics from Plague to Coronavirus
- HST6746 – The Idea of 'the West': A History from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
- HST6749 - The Holocaust and its Aftermath in Film and Literature
- HST6757 – Race, Ethnicity and Immigration: Britain from the 1905 Aliens Act to Brexit
- HST6764 - Pakistan and the Politics of the Past
- HST6408 - Empire and Political Thought
- Intercollegiate Modules 2022 - 2023
- HST6752 - Pacific Encounters: Science, Sex and Empire from Captain Cook to Pearl Harbor
- HST6761 - American Film History: Hollywood and the Second World War
- HST7703 - Capitalism and Political Thought
- 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
- HST7321 – Theories of Empire: from Enlightenment to Liberalism
- 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
- HST7704 - Patria and Cosmopolis: Nation, Country, and Humanity in Political Thought, from ancient Greece to the Age of Revolutions
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.