Undergraduate Modules

Year 1

Compulsory

• History in Practice
• Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
• Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History

Choose from

• Building the American Nation: 1756-1900
• Europe in a Global Context since 1800
• Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
• The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History
• Controversies of Science and Technology in the Making of the Modern World
• Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy
• Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800

Year 2

Compulsory

• History Research Project

Optional modules

• From Muhammad to the Ottomans: A History of Medieval Islamic Societies
• Women and Gender in Medieval Islam
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
• Latin I
• Knighthood & Chivalry in the Middle Ages
• Medieval London: Pubs, Plague-pits and Cathedrals
• Piracy and Civilisation: Antiquity to the Golden Age
• Life and Death on the Middle Sea: The Mediterranean, 1453-1803
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
• (re)Writing History
• Art and the City from Michelangelo to Blade Runner
• London and its Museums
• Architecture in London, 1600-1837: Plague, Fire, and Empire
• Architecture in London, 1837-Today: Smog, Suburbia, and Gentrification
• London on Film: Representing the City in American and British Cinema
• British Horror: Film, Television and Literature
• Japanese Film: History, Culture and Fantasy
• History and Heritage Internship
• History of Political Thought
• History of Modern Political Thought
• Human Rights in History: Origins, Foundations, Prospects
• Gender and Sexuality from the Middle Ages to the Present
• Animal Madness in the Human Zoo: The History of Animal Experimentation and 
  the Human Condition
• A History of the Internet
• Madness and Medicine in Modern Britain
• Britain in Crisis, 1900-1914: Empire, Democracy, Sex and Violence
• Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain, 1830-1928
• Anglo-American Relations, 1939-1991
• Britain and Europe, 1945-2016
• Angels, Spinsters and Whores: British Women and Gender from Victoria to the Vote
• Crime and Punishment in London
• The Struggle for Italy: 1915-1996
• Marie-Antoinette to Coco Chanel: A Cultural History of France from the Revolution 
  to the Second World War
• The Soviet Union: Red Flag Unfurled, 1917-1991
• The American Century: The History of the United States, 1900-2000
• Scandal and Corruption in American Politics
• Consumed: American Consumer Culture from the 18th to the 21st century
• Race in the United States: Plantation Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
• Kingdoms, Empires and Colonisation in African History
• Race and the Desire for Difference
• This Belongs in a Museum! Contesting Histories of Race and Empire in the Modern World
• Globalisation: Capitalists, Colonisers, and Crises in the Long Twentieth Century
• Moving People: Migration, Borders, and Belonging through Time
• Freedom and Nation: The State in Post-Colonial Africa, 1956-2006
• Violence and Modernity in Twentieth-Century India
• The Algerian War of Independence, 1954–1962

Year 3 

Compulsory 

• History Research Dissertation

Special Subject module options (you choose one)

In your final year, you will take a Special Subject module, where you closely examine a theme or period of history, taught by an expert researcher in the field. Special Subjects are intensely source-based and will give you the opportunity to work closely with a large number of primary materials.

The range of Special Subject modules on offer varies from year to year, and this list gives a sample of some of the special subject modules the School recently offer:

• Beer, Porcelain, Longbows: Rewriting the History of Medieval and Early Modern Objects
• Internationalisms: People, Power and Politics Beyond Borders
• A History of Palestine, 300-1800
• Making Thatcher's Britain: The Thatcher Revolution, 1975-1997
• The Kennedy Years
• The War on Terror
• From Pinny to Hot Pants? Women in Britain, 1945-1970

Optional modules

• Medieval Worlds on Film
• The Germans and the Jews since 1871
• The Supernatural in Modern Britain
• Cold War America 1945 – 1975
• Gotham: The Making of New York City 1825 – 2001
• The Body in Science, Medicine and Culture since 1832
• The History of Emotions
• Totalitarianism: History & Theory of Twentieth Century Authoritarian Politics

Year 1

Compulsory

• Europe in a Global Context since 1800
• History in Practice
• Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
• Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History

Choose from

• Building the American Nation: 1756-1900
• Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy
• Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800
• Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
• The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History
• Controversies of Science and Technology in the Making of the Modern World

Year 2

Compulsory

• History Research Project

Optional modules

• From Muhammad to the Ottomans: A History of Medieval Islamic Societies
• Women and Gender in Medieval Islam
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
• Latin I
• Knighthood & Chivalry in the Middle Ages
• Medieval London: Pubs, Plague-pits and Cathedrals
• Piracy and Civilisation: Antiquity to the Golden Age
• Life and Death on the Middle Sea: The Mediterranean, 1453-1803
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
• (re)Writing History
• Art and the City from Michelangelo to Blade Runner
• London and its Museums
• Architecture in London, 1600-1837: Plague, Fire, and Empire
• Architecture in London, 1837-Today: Smog, Suburbia, and Gentrification
• London on Film: Representing the City in American and British Cinema
• British Horror: Film, Television and Literature
• Japanese Film: History, Culture and Fantasy
• History and Heritage Internship
• History of Political Thought
• History of Modern Political Thought
• Human Rights in History: Origins, Foundations, Prospects
• Gender and Sexuality from the Middle Ages to the Present
• Animal Madness in the Human Zoo: The History of Animal Experimentation and 
  the Human Condition
• A History of the Internet
• Madness and Medicine in Modern Britain
• Britain in Crisis, 1900-1914: Empire, Democracy, Sex and Violence
• Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain, 1830-1928
• Anglo-American Relations, 1939-1991
• Britain and Europe, 1945-2016
• Angels, Spinsters and Whores: British Women and Gender from Victoria to the Vote
• Crime and Punishment in London
• The Struggle for Italy: 1915-1996
• Marie-Antoinette to Coco Chanel: A Cultural History of France from the Revolution 
  to the Second World War
• The Soviet Union: Red Flag Unfurled, 1917-1991
• The American Century: The History of the United States, 1900-2000
• Scandal and Corruption in American Politics
• Consumed: American Consumer Culture from the 18th to the 21st century
• Race in the United States: Plantation Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
• Kingdoms, Empires and Colonisation in African History
• Race and the Desire for Difference
• This Belongs in a Museum! Contesting Histories of Race and Empire in the Modern World
• Globalisation: Capitalists, Colonisers, and Crises in the Long Twentieth Century
• Moving People: Migration, Borders, and Belonging through Time
• Freedom and Nation: The State in Post-Colonial Africa, 1956-2006
• Violence and Modernity in Twentieth-Century India
• The Algerian War of Independence, 1954–1962

Year 3 

Compulsory 

• History Research Dissertation

Special Subject module options (you choose one)

In your final year, you will take a Special Subject module, where you closely examine a theme or period of history, taught by an expert researcher in the field. Special Subjects are intensely source-based and will give you the opportunity to work closely with a large number of primary materials.

The range of Special Subject modules on offer varies from year to year, and this list gives a sample of some of the special subject modules the School recently offer:

• Internationalisms: People, Power and Politics Beyond Borders
• Making Thatcher's Britain: the Thatcher Revolution, 1975-1997
• Race, Ethnicity and Immigration: Britain from the 1905 Aliens Act to Brexit
• The 'Heart of Darkness'? Identity, Power, and Politics in the Congo c.1870-2010
• The Kennedy Years
• The War on Terror
• Colonial Fascism: A Global History from Blackshirt Invasion to Black Power Antifascism
• From Pinny to Hot Pants? Women in Britain, 1945-1970

Optional modules

• The Germans and the Jews since 1871
• The Supernatural in Modern Britain
• The Modern Caribbean: Migration, Radicalism and Revolt
• Gotham: the Making of New York City 1825-2001
• American Horror Stories: The Fiction and Film Worlds of Stephen King from Carrie to It
• The Bear Hug: Belarus and Ukraine in the Soviet Empire, 1917-1991

Year 1

Compulsory

• History in Practice
• Thinking Politically: Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Ideologies

Choose from

• Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
• Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History

Remaining choices from:

• Background to British Politics
• Building the American Nation 1756-1900
• Controversies of Science and Technology in the Making of the Modern World
• Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their legacy
• Europe in a Global Context since 1800
• Global Histories
• Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World 1500-1800
• Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
• The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History
• Political Analysis
• Introduction to International Relations
• Politics in Action

Year 2

Compulsory

• History Research Project

Optional modules

• From Muhammad to the Ottomans: A History of Medieval Islamic Societies
• Women and Gender in Medieval Islam
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
• Latin I
• Knighthood & Chivalry in the Middle Ages
• Medieval London: Pubs, Plague-pits and Cathedrals
• Piracy and Civilisation: Antiquity to the Golden Age
• Life and Death on the Middle Sea: The Mediterranean, 1453-1803
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
• (re)Writing History
• London and its Museums
• Architecture in London, 1600-1837: Plague, Fire, and Empire
• Architecture in London, 1837-Today: Smog, Suburbia, and Gentrification
• London on Film: Representing the City in American and British Cinema
• British Horror: Film, Television and Literature
• Japanese Film: History, Culture and Fantasy
• History of Political Thought
• History of Modern Political Thought
• Human Rights in History: Origins, Foundations, Prospects
• Gender and Sexuality from the Middle Ages to the Present
• Animal Madness in the Human Zoo: The History of Animal Experimentation and 
  the Human Condition
• A History of the Internet
• Madness and Medicine in Modern Britain
• Britain in Crisis, 1900-1914: Empire, Democracy, Sex and Violence
• Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain, 1830-1928
• Anglo-American Relations, 1939-1991
• Britain and Europe, 1945-2016
• Angels, Spinsters and Whores: British Women and Gender from Victoria to the Vote
• Crime and Punishment in London
• The Struggle for Italy: 1915-1996
• Marie-Antoinette to Coco Chanel: A Cultural History of France from the Revolution 
  to the Second World War
• The Soviet Union: Red Flag Unfurled, 1917-1991
• The American Century: The History of the United States, 1900-2000
• Scandal and Corruption in American Politics
• Consumed: American Consumer Culture from the 18th to the 21st century
• Race in the United States: Plantation Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
• Kingdoms, Empires and Colonisation in African History
• Race and the Desire for Difference
• This Belongs in a Museum! Contesting Histories of Race and Empire in the Modern World
• Globalisation: Capitalists, Colonisers, and Crises in the Long Twentieth Century
• Moving People: Migration, Borders, and Belonging through Time
• Freedom and Nation: The State in Post-Colonial Africa, 1956-2006
• Violence and Modernity in Twentieth-Century India
• The Algerian War of Independence, 1954–1962
• Modernity: Theories of State, Economy and Society
• Political Research
• Politics of International Law
• US Politics
• War in World Politics
• Globalisation: Capitalists, Colonisers
• Crises in the Long Twentieth Century

Year 3 

Compulsory 

• Either a History special subject and dissertation or the Dissertation in Politics / International Relations

Special subjects may include

• Making Thatcher's Britain: the Thatcher Revolution, 1975-1997
• The Kennedy Years
• The War on Terror
• Internationalisms: People, Power and Politics Beyond Borders
• Global History of Pandemics from Plague to Coronavirus
• From Pinny to Hot Pants? Women in Britain, 1945-1970

Optional modules

• Africa and International Politics
• American Politics, Carceral State and Social Movements
• Gender and Politics
• Global Politics of Health and Disease
• Latin American Politics
• Parliamentary Studies
• Political Violence and Liberal Modernity
• Politics of South Asia
• Populism: A Global Perspective
• Race and Racism in World Politics 
• Cold War America, 1945-1975
• The Modern Caribbean: Migration, Radicalism and Revolt
• The Bear Hug: Belarus and Ukraine in the Soviet Empire, 1917-1991
• Counterrevolutions: Mass Politics and the Birth of the Modern Right, 1790-1870
• Saving the World? A Global History of Humanitarianism in the Long Twentieth Century
• Impacts of Empire: Global Connections that have Shaped Modern British History

Year 1

Compulsory

• History in Practice
• Introduction to International Relations

Choose from

• Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
• Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History

Remaining choices from:

• Background to British Politics
• Building the American Nation 1756-1900
• Controversies of Science and Technology in the Making of the Modern World
• Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their legacy
• Europe in a Global Context since 1800
• Global Histories
• Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World 1500-1800
• Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
• The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History
• Political Analysis
• Introduction to International Relations
• Politics in Action

Year 2

Compulsory

• History Research Project

Optional modules

• From Muhammad to the Ottomans: A History of Medieval Islamic Societies
• Women and Gender in Medieval Islam
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
• Latin I
• Knighthood & Chivalry in the Middle Ages
• Medieval London: Pubs, Plague-pits and Cathedrals
• Piracy and Civilisation: Antiquity to the Golden Age
• Life and Death on the Middle Sea: The Mediterranean, 1453-1803
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
• (re)Writing History
• London and its Museums
• Architecture in London, 1600-1837: Plague, Fire, and Empire
• Architecture in London, 1837-Today: Smog, Suburbia, and Gentrification
• London on Film: Representing the City in American and British Cinema
• British Horror: Film, Television and Literature
• Japanese Film: History, Culture and Fantasy
• History of Political Thought
• History of Modern Political Thought
• Human Rights in History: Origins, Foundations, Prospects
• Gender and Sexuality from the Middle Ages to the Present
• Animal Madness in the Human Zoo: The History of Animal Experimentation and 
  the Human Condition
• A History of the Internet
• Madness and Medicine in Modern Britain
• Britain in Crisis, 1900-1914: Empire, Democracy, Sex and Violence
• Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain, 1830-1928
• Anglo-American Relations, 1939-1991
• Britain and Europe, 1945-2016
• Angels, Spinsters and Whores: British Women and Gender from Victoria to the Vote
• Crime and Punishment in London
• The Struggle for Italy: 1915-1996
• Marie-Antoinette to Coco Chanel: A Cultural History of France from the Revolution 
  to the Second World War
• The Soviet Union: Red Flag Unfurled, 1917-1991
• The American Century: The History of the United States, 1900-2000
• Scandal and Corruption in American Politics
• Consumed: American Consumer Culture from the 18th to the 21st century
• Race in the United States: Plantation Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
• Kingdoms, Empires and Colonisation in African History
• Race and the Desire for Difference
• This Belongs in a Museum! Contesting Histories of Race and Empire in the Modern World
• Globalisation: Capitalists, Colonisers, and Crises in the Long Twentieth Century
• Moving People: Migration, Borders, and Belonging through Time
• Freedom and Nation: The State in Post-Colonial Africa, 1956-2006
• Violence and Modernity in Twentieth-Century India
• The Algerian War of Independence, 1954–1962
• International Relations Theory
• Totalitarianism: Authoritarian Politics in History and Theory, 1920-2003
• The International Politics of the Developing World
• History of Political Thought
• War in World Politics
• Colonialism, Capitalism and Development

Year 3 

Compulsory 

• Either a History special subject and dissertation or a dissertation in Politics or International Relations

Special subjects may include

• The First Age of Globalisation: Money, Race, and Empire 1850-1933
• The Kennedy Years
• The War on Terror
• The Idea of 'the West': A History from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
• Global History of Pandemics from Plague to Coronavirus
• Internationalisms: People, Power and Politics Beyond Borders
• Colonial Fascism: A Global History from Blackshirt Invasion to Black Power

Optional modules

• Cold War America 1945 – 1975
• Nationalism & Ethnicity in International Relations
• The Germans and the Jews since 1871
• Totalitarianism: History & Theory of Twentieth Century Authoritarian Politics
• The Atlantic Slave Trade: Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
• Saving the World? A Global History of Humanitarianism in the Long Twentieth Century
• Counterrevolutions: Mass Politics and the Birth of the Modern Right, 1790-1870
• Africa and International Politics
• Latin American Politics
• Antifascism and The Global Cold War

Year 1

Compulsory

• Poetry
• London Global
• Literatures in Time Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages
• History in Practice

Choose one from

• Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
• Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History

Year 2

In English you will take one 30 credit module from List One or Two, and at least one module from Lists Three or Four:

List One: Medieval and Early-Modern Studies

• Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity 
• Renaissance Drama
• Renaissance Literary Culture

List Two: Eighteenth Century Studies, Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Studies

• Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth Century City
• Romantics and Revolutionaries
• Victorian Fictions  

List Three: Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial Studies 

• The Long Contemporary
• Modernism
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures 

List 4: Special Options (Modules offered on this list changes each year). Modules may include:

• American Romanticsm
• Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
• Global Shakespeare
• James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
• Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
• The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics, 1918-1948
• The Thousand and One Nights

Compulsory

• History Research Project

Optional modules

• From Muhammad to the Ottomans: A History of Medieval Islamic Societies
• Women and Gender in Medieval Islam
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
• Latin I
• Knighthood & Chivalry in the Middle Ages
• Medieval London: Pubs, Plague-pits and Cathedrals
• Piracy and Civilisation: Antiquity to the Golden Age
• Life and Death on the Middle Sea: The Mediterranean, 1453-1803
• Violence in Early Modern Europe
• (re)Writing History
• London and its Museums
• Architecture in London, 1600-1837: Plague, Fire, and Empire
• Architecture in London, 1837-Today: Smog, Suburbia, and Gentrification
• London on Film: Representing the City in American and British Cinema
• British Horror: Film, Television and Literature
• Japanese Film: History, Culture and Fantasy
• History of Political Thought
• History of Modern Political Thought
• Human Rights in History: Origins, Foundations, Prospects
• Gender and Sexuality from the Middle Ages to the Present
• Animal Madness in the Human Zoo: The History of Animal Experimentation and 
  the Human Condition
• A History of the Internet
• Madness and Medicine in Modern Britain
• Britain in Crisis, 1900-1914: Empire, Democracy, Sex and Violence
• Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain, 1830-1928
• Anglo-American Relations, 1939-1991
• Britain and Europe, 1945-2016
• Angels, Spinsters and Whores: British Women and Gender from Victoria to the Vote
• Crime and Punishment in London
• The Struggle for Italy: 1915-1996
• Marie-Antoinette to Coco Chanel: A Cultural History of France from the Revolution 
  to the Second World War
• The Soviet Union: Red Flag Unfurled, 1917-1991
• The American Century: The History of the United States, 1900-2000
• Scandal and Corruption in American Politics
• Consumed: American Consumer Culture from the 18th to the 21st century
• Race in the United States: Plantation Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
• Kingdoms, Empires and Colonisation in African History
• Race and the Desire for Difference
• This Belongs in a Museum! Contesting Histories of Race and Empire in the Modern World
• Globalisation: Capitalists, Colonisers, and Crises in the Long Twentieth Century
• Moving People: Migration, Borders, and Belonging through Time
• Freedom and Nation: The State in Post-Colonial Africa, 1956-2006
• Violence and Modernity in Twentieth-Century India
• The Algerian War of Independence, 1954–1962

Year 3 

Compulsory 

• Either an English Research Dissertation or a History Special Subject

Special subjects may include

• Beer, Porcelain, Longbows: Rewriting the History of Medieval and Early Modern Object
• Internationalisms: People, Power and Politics Beyond Borders
• A History of Palestine, 300-1800
• From Pinny to Hot Pants? Women in Britain, 1945-1970
• American Film History: Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan

Optional modules

• Medieval Worlds on Film
• The Germans and the Jews since 1871
• The Supernatural in Modern Britain
• Art and Power in Early Modern Europe
• British Fictions of the 1960s
• Feminism(s)
• Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
• Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
• The Modern Caribbean: Migration, Radicalism and Revolt
• Victorian Sensation Fiction
• American Horror Stories: The Fiction and Film Worlds of Stephen King from Carrie to It
• Empire and Political Thought
• Time, Narrative, Culture
• Writing Empire: the Eighteenth Century