Course Modules

This module explores the first half of the 20th century, focusing in particular on the radical developments and experimentation associated with modernist literature. You will engage with the forms developed by modernist writers in order to write about the period […]

This module examines different approaches to a range of historical case studies. These will include, amongst others, social and cultural history, the history of women, gender and sexuality, ideology and discourse analysis, postcolonial, the history of the visual image, landscape

This module evaluates the political, intellectual and religious development, popular, elite and court culture, warfare and international relations and gender issues across Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire within the Renaissance and Reformation periods. You will gain a better understanding

This module moves chronologically through the monarchs and events of the sixteenth century. You will consider the role of political faction in the decision-making process under Henry VIII; the impact of the Reformation at the centre and in the localities;

This module analyses the distinctive origins of American political thought and constitutional practice, the structures and effects of slavery, the origins of the civil war, the evolution of popular culture with special reference to jazz, the pursuit of civil rights

This module will explore the lives of ‘ordinary’ (i.e. non elite) men, women and children living in England from c1550 to c1750. You will consider key defining factors of the society during this period including social structures; gender relations; lifecycles;

This module explores the challenges made by women’s writing, both critical and creative, to established authority over the past two centuries.

This module will build on your earlier explorations of research techniques, with a focus on the development of time and project management skills as you begin to prepare for your dissertation. Questions concerning how one starts on a research project

This module examines the development of art, knowledge, taste, fashion and beliefs in Europe from c.1250-1650 as you consider the importance of intellectual history, cultural history, science and art as key aspects of European culture. You will pay close attention

This module offers a thematic and contextual survey of late-medieval England. It commences by problematising ‘The Middle Ages’, focusing on historiography, myth, public perception, and the constructed nature of historical periodisation. The focus is on England, but material from elsewhere