MSc Historical Studies

This taught postgraduate programme aims to introduce you to advanced level study of history while deepening your historical understanding and awareness. You'll gain invaluable research tools and practical skills while studying a range of thematic, historiographical or theoretical topics across a broad chronological and geographical range. You’re offered a wide choice of classes as well as rigorous training in historical research methods and sources. You can choose to study thematic, historiographical or theoretical topics across a broad chronological and geographical range.

You’re offered a wide choice of classes as well as rigorous training in historical research methods and sources. You can choose to study thematic, historiographical or theoretical topics across a broad chronological and geographical range. There’s also the possibility of specialising in a particular area such as:

  • international relations history in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • early modern Scottish history

Assessment

A full account of assessment will be provided in each module handbook. The pass mark is 50% in all classes.

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Modules

  • Research skills, sources and methods for Historians
  • Britain, France and the United States, 1945-1958: Diplomacy, Strategy and Alliance
  • Nationalism and Nation-states in the Arab Middle East, 1900-1945
  • Advanced Oral History
  • Palaeography, c1500-c1800
  • Pharmaceuticals, Ethics and Health: 1800-1980
  • War, Sacrifice and the Nation in Europe, 1789-1918
  • Transnational Radicalism and the Irish World: 1845-1923
  • Work Placement in History
  • Plantations by Land and Sea: British imperial projects in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1590-1720
  • Scotland and Ulster in the early Modern North Atlantic World
  • Segregation, Migration and War: African-Americans 1910-1930
  • Race, War and Colonialism: France 1914-44
  • Dissertation
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    £16,000 Per Year

    International student tuition fee

    1 Year

    Duration

    Sep 2025

    Start Month

    Aug 2025

    Application Deadline

    Upcoming Intakes

    • September 2025
    • September 2026

    Mode of Study

    • Full Time