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HI-M22
Dissertation
Students produce a dissertation of up to 20,000 words on a historical topic, chosen in conjunction with their supervisor. This represents the culmination of the History MAs, and constitutes Part Two of the programme.
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HI-M38
New Departures in the Writing of History
This module provides an introduction to advanced historiography. It is designed to develop students¿ awareness of traditional historiographical concerns alongside their knowledge current trends and new directions in writing and thinking about the past.
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HI-M39
Research Folder
This module is designed to help students to identify a dissertation topic appropriate to their interests and expertise, and to tackle the problems of methodology, develop the research techniques, and undertake the project planning which are the necessary preliminaries to researching and writing a 20,000 word dissertation.
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HIH122
Making History
History is an imprecise art and what historians say and write about the past is not the same as what actually happened in the past. Most people's knowledge about the past doesn't come from professional historians at all but rather from 'public history'. Public history is the collective understandings of the past that exist outside academic discipline of history. It is derived from a diverse range of sources including oral traditions, legends, literature, art, films and television.
This module will introduce you to the study and presentation of the past. It will consider how the content, aims and methods of academic and public history compare and contrast and you will engage in your own small research project to investigate this. The module will also teach you about the fundamentals of studying and writing history at university. You will learn about essay writing, group work and critical analysis and employ these skills to understand and assess history today, both as an academic activity and as public knowledge.
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HIH124
Modern British History
This module explores the broad sweep of the history of the United Kingdom since its modern creation in 1801. It brings together different approaches from political, economic, social and cultural history to consider the different ways the history of a nation can be studied. At the module's heart are questions of what constitutes a nation and the extent to which British society can be considered to be unified.
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HIH237
The Practice of History
The purpose of the module is to encourage you to think more deeply about how historians work and, in particular, about how we as historians can locate and use primary historical sources effectively as a means of interpreting and understanding the past. During the module we will learn about the survival of historical evidence, how it is organised and made accessible to historians to undertake their research, and how to effectively locate and interpret it in your studies. We will consider how the process of doing historical research changes over time, in particular with the impact of recent developments like digitization.
At the core of the module will be the work you undertake with others in your seminar group using a range of primary sources which your seminar tutor will introduce to you. As part of the module assessment you will also undertake your own primary source based research project using items from these collections. The module is designed strengthen your analytical skills and to help prepare you for the more extensive uses of primary evidence which you will encounter in final year special subjects and dissertation.
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HIH3300
History Dissertation
The History dissertation is a free-standing, 40-credit module that runs across both semesters of Level Three. Candidates conduct research upon a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of staff teaching for the degrees in History, and concerning a topic that falls within staff research and teaching interests.
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HIH3340
The Lights that Failed: the League of Nations and International Peace, 1919 to 1939
The twin issues of war and peace dominated Europe from the turn of the twentieth century. The threat of war has traditionally been presented as the result of rising national rivalries. However, this period was also one in which the world became increasingly inter-connected and modern internationalism was born, which was, in turn, seen as a guarantor of peace.
This module examines how internationalist ideas evolved in the early 1900s, how they were undermined in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War, how they were reborn again in the 1920s through the work of the League of Nations, before failing once more in the mid-to-late 1930s. The module encourages students to think critically about terms such as nationalism and internationalism and the relationship between them, as well as how war and peace have been understood and justified at different points in history.
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HIH3358
Changed Utterly? The Irish Revolution, 1912-23
In 1912 Ireland was an integral part of the British Empire and the Union which bound the United Kingdom together. By 1923, the island of Ireland had been partitioned, with 26 southern counties now constituting an independent Free State, while six northern counties now formed a new entity known as Northern Ireland. In the intervening years, the island of Ireland had experienced the trauma of the First World War, the shock of a nationalist rebellion in Dublin in 1916, the outbreak of a War of Independence between 1919 and 1921, and a bitter Civil War between 1922 and 1923. In the words of W.B. Yeats all was `changed, changed utterly.¿
This module will explore the political, cultural, and social changes of this period in Irish and British history. Looking at primary source accounts of the period, it will examine issues such as how the future of Ireland was imagined in 1912; different forms of nationalism and unionism; Irish involvement in the First World War; the righteousness of the Easter Rising; the role of women in political activism; the contentious events of the War of Independence and Civil War; the consequences of Irish independence for Britain and the British Empire. It will also encourage students to think about how divisive historical events should be remembered.
This module will be 40% political history, 30% cultural history, and 30% social history.
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HIH3377
A History of Sex and Gender
This module explores the history of sex and gender across a multitude of sites since the Medieval period, examining how and why understandings and ideologies changed. This module looks at the history of sex and gender from a social and cultural perspective, drawing out connections with class and race. It explores how ideas of masculinity and femininity have changed over time, how gender has impacted on social, economic and political life, and how dominant ideologies of gender relate to the experience of men¿s and women¿s daily lives. The module will also analyse changing attitudes towards sexuality and demonstrate how modern sexual identities are the product of historical processes rather than fixed and unchanging. Students will be introduced to the key historiographical debates around the history of gender and to the core challenges that drive historians while researching these vital themes.
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HIHX213
City University, Hong Kong
This Module is delivered at City University Hong Kong, for those students who participate in an Exchange Programme.
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HIHX220
Hong Kong Baptist University
This module is delivered at Hong Kong Baptist University, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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HIHX221
Hong Kong Baptist University
This module is delivered at Hong Kong Baptist University, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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HIHX222
Hong Kong Baptist University
This module is delivered at Hong Kong Baptist University, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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HIHX223
Hong Kong Baptist University
This module is delivered at Hong Kong Baptist University, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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HIHX230
University of New Brunswick
This module is delivered at University of New Brunswick, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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HIHX231
University of New Brunswick
This module is delivered at University of New Brunswick, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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HIHX232
University of New Brunswick
This module is delivered at University of New Brunswick, for those students who partipate in an Exchange Programme
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HIQ200
Study Group: History (Year 2)
2 hour weekly Study Group for History students (Year 2)
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HIQ300
Study Group: History (Year 3)
2 hour weekly Study Group for History students (Year 3)
