MA Modern History

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Historians have long been fascinated by modernity and the societies to which it gave rise. The MA Modern History explores these changes, allowing you to work with internationally-renowned academics to investigate the political cleavages and cultural uncertainty unleashed by the great revolutions, the mobilisations and resistance of the two world wars and the transnational forces of empire and globalisation.

Our MA courses are designed to help you carry out specialist research under expert supervision in a friendly and supportive environment.

The core module develops your understanding of key historiographical and methodological approaches and your skills in using relevant sources, while the dissertation provides you the opportunity to further develop your skills and apply your knowledge in an independent research project. This is supported by the Research Presentation module which develops your skills in presenting research to a non-specialist audience.

Our range of option modules allow you to focus on the particular skills and knowledge that are most important to you. You can choose from a wide range of modules focussing on particular historical themes, supporting specific history research training and public history modules. All of this helps you build a broad range of transferable skills that will be desirable to future employers both inside and outside of academia.

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Modules

  • Modernity and Power: Individuals and the State in the Modern World
  • Dissertation in History
  • Research Presentation for Historians
  • Approaches and Methods in Media History
  • Autobiography, Identity and the Self in Muslim South Asia
  • Before Facebook: Social Networks in History
  • Biopolitics: Medicine, Meaning and Power
  • Black Power: Race, Gender, and Liberation in the United States and Beyond
  • Cold War Histories
  • Debating Cultural Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
  • Food and Drink
  • History in Fiction
  • History on Screen
  • Human Rights in Modern History
  • Imagining the Republic: Irish Republicanism, 1798-1998
  • International Order in the Twentieth Century
  • Microhistory and the History of Everyday Life
  • Oral History
  • Policing the Family: Welfare, Eugenics and Love in Early 20th Century Britain
  • Presenting the Past: Making History Public
  • Public History and Policy: Theory and Practice
  • Race and Racism in Historical Perspective
  • Research Skills for Historians
  • Sex and Power: The Politics of Women's Liberation in Modern Britain
  • Stories of Activism, 1960 to the Present
  • The Animal Turn: human and non-human animals in history
  • The Global Cold War
  • The Japanese Empire in East Asia, 1895-1945
  • The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975
  • The U.S. Civil War in Global Context
  • Under Attack: The Home Front during the Cold War
  • Voices of the Great War: Gender, Experience and Violence in Great Britain and Germany, 1914-1918
  • Wikipedia and Medieval History
  • Women and Power
  • Work Placement
  • Worlds of Labour: Working Class Lives in Colonial South Asia
  • Digital Cultural Heritage: Theory and Practice
  • Heritage, Place and Community
  • Heritage, History and Identity
  • Introduction to Cultural Data
  • Introduction to Digital Culture
  • American Nightmares: Socio-political Discourses in American Gothic Literature
  • Confession
  • Humans, Animals, Monsters and Machines: From Gulliver's Travels to King Kong
  • Memory and Trauma in Contemporary Literature
  • Mid-Century Modernism
  • Murderers and Degenerates: Contextualising the fin de siècle Gothic
  • Post-1945 British Drama, Film and Television
  • Reimagining the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  • Romantic Gothic
  • 'Tales of the City' - The Living Space in Contemporary American Fiction
  • New African Literatures
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    Use our magical AI system, to check your admission chances for this course.
    Tuition fee
    Apply by
    Start date
    Sep 2025
    Sep 2026
    Duration
    Campus
    Mode of study
    Fees and deadlines depend on the selected options. Fees and currency conversion are approximate.
    Offer response
    2 weeks after your application is submitted
    Backlogs accepted
    This course accepts backlogs