Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2019/20

Please note: Due to alternative arrangements for teaching and assessment in place from 18 March 2020 to mitigate against the restrictions in place due to COVID-19, information shown for 2019/20 may not always be accurate.

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
'The Rise of Political Lying'?: Rhetoric from Churchill to Blair (Level H Special Subject) HIST30048 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
American Empire HIST30043 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Approaches to History HISTM2009 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Approaching the Past HIST13015 20 Certificate/4 Not open C TB-1
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers HIST20036 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Black Lives Matter: The African American Freedom Struggle (1945-Present) HIST30095 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Borderlands: People and Places at the Periphery (Reflective History Unit) HIST30079 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Brief Encounters: Love, Labour, and Loneliness in Modern London HIST20099 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject) HIST30078 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Calamities: Natural and Unnatural Disasters in the Modern World (Level I Special Field) HIST20076 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Capitalism (Level H Reflective History) HIST30073 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Centuries of Dishonour: American Indian History from Removal to Termination HIST20109 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Cities HIST10047 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Comparative American Slavery HIST30092 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Conflict and Community HIST20118 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Constructing the 'Other' in Western Europe, c.1000 - 1400 (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39012 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Convicts and the colonies: punishment, forced labour and the British Empire (Level H Special Subject) HIST37018 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Dealing with Defeat: the English and the Norman Conquest, since 1066 (Level H Reflective History) HIST30088 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field) HIST26008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Decolonisation HIST20116 20 Intermediate/5 Not open C TB-2
Describing Difference: Race, Culture and Ethnicity (Level H Reflective History) HIST38010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Discovering America (Level H Reflective History) HIST38016 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Honours/6 Not open E TB-4
Dissertation HISTM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Early Modern Italy (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0047 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Early Modern Italy (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30026 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Early and Modern Paganism HIST20121 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Environment and History HISTM0078 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Eugenics: The First Fifty Years (1883-1932) (Level H Reflective History) HIST30084 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Europe Since 1945: A Fractured History HIST30105 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Europe Since 1945: A Fractured History HISTM0080 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Everyday Life in Tudor and Stuart England HIST20100 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Fear and Loathing HIST20117 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Filming the Past HIST30021 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
From Washington to Waco: Explorations in Twentieth-century Religion and History (Level I Special Field) HIST20087 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0049 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30028 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Getting Acquainted with Friendship (Level H Reflective History) HIST38002 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Global History HIST20112 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Greed is Good: Contemporary Enterprise Culture in Britain and America HISTM0070 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Greed is Good: Contemporary Enterprise Culture in Britain and America (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30083 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Histories of the Polar Regions HIST30102 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
History in Public HIST20089 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
History, Law and Memory: The Holocaust on Trial (Level H Reflective History) HIST38013 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Holocaust Landscapes (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0058 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39009 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Ideology, Poverty and Famines HISTM2017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37016 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject) HIST37011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Making History Public HISTM2016 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Outlaws HIST20120 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Political Culture and Communication in Britain, 1867-1939 (Level I Special Field) HIST26015 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Poverty and Famines in Historical Perspective (Level H Reflective History) HIST38006 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Progress or Peril? The History of Science, Technology and Medicine HIST20113 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Race and Health in America HIST30099 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) HIST37010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Red Power and Beyond: Post-war American Indian Ideology and Protest HIST30094 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Remembering Transatlantic Enslavement HIST20122 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Repressed or Risque?: Victorian Sex and Sexuality (Level H Special Subject) HIST30024 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Researching and Writing History HISTM0055 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Revels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20021 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Rewriting Modern Britain HISTM0079 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Sexualities (Level H Reflective History) HIST38011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Slavery HIST10046 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Slavery and Emancipation in the Atlantic World 1450-1870 HISTM0071 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Special Field Project HIST23008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open E TB-2
Teenage Kicks: Youth and Subcultures in Britain since 1918 HIST30097 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
The Age of the Human HIST30103 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
The American Century HIST10044 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The American Civil War HIST20123 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Apocalypse in Culture and Society (1000-1500) HISTM0032 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
The Black Death in England HIST20125 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Development of the Modern Mass Media: Disciplining Democracy (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30012 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The Development of the Modern Mass Media: Disciplining Democracy (Level M Lecture Response unit) HISTM0063 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
The Early Modern World HIST10043 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
The History of Photography/The Photography of History (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20086 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
The Making of Contemporary Britain (1918-2008) HIST20114 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Medieval World HIST10042 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-2
The Modern World HIST10048 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field) HIST26010 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Tudor World HIST20119 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Urban Worlds: From Ancient Baghdad to Las Vegas HIST10049 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Violence and Slavery in the American South HIST20108 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
War and Society HIST10045 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Wild Things: Humans and other animals in History HIST20115 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Witchcraft (Level H Reflective History) HIST38003 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2

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