History Year 1
You will study the history of Britain and Europe from the 16th century to the end of the 20th century; Colonial America; America in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution, 1763-1812; the non-European world from 1850
You will attend workshops using the primary source materials and the internet
History Year 2
Study includes: culture and society in Europe, 1450-1700; Germany and the Thirty Years War; European Reformation; riot in the 18th century; Britain 1940-1970, history of East Asia; European history in the 20th century
Workshops examine and reconstruct elections
Techniques of the oral and film historian are explored
History Year 3
Modules include: parish life in medieval England; family, sex, and society in Britain 1450-1700; crime in the 18th and 19th centuries; the English reformation; the English revolution 1640-1660, Britain in the 1930s; politics in the reign of George III; history of European integration from 1945; the second World war
Dissertation
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You will study the history of Britain and Europe from the 16th century to the end of the 20th century; Colonial America; Europe from 1850; the non-European world from 1850; Britian from 1640.
You will attend workshops using the primary source materials and the internet
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Year 1
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Study the main concepts and theories of British and European politics and understand questions like 'what is politics?' 'what is power?' and 'what is a political system?'
Develop your computing and study skills and the basic concepts and practices of political research
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Develop a theoretical and methodological knowledge of politics
Opportunity to undertake a student exchange programme in the Czech Repulic or Poland
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Social and economic history
early modern British cultural and gender history
sixteenth century French and European counter-reformation history
crime and popular culture in eighteenth century England
twentieth century agricultural history
Modern political history and military history
Anglo-Irish politics since the nineteenth century
Anglo-American military history during the twentieth century
British politics and society since 1918
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