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History
Autumn Semester
Spring Semester
Full Year
History
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V112A5
Autumn Semester
Level 1
Credits
10
Level 1
Target students Only available to Exchange (mobility)
V1108A
Credits
Roads to Modernity: An Introduction
to Modern History 1789-1945 (Part
1)
Learning History (10 Credits)
10
Level 1
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
transferring degree programme after the Autumn
Semester
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Autumn
This module concentrates upon student
conceptions of the subject and their strategies as learners,
in order to enable them more effectively to monitor and
develop their skills and understanding.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Seminar
students at Nottingham for the Autumn Semester, and
History students transferring degree programme during
the Session.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
The module provides a chronology of modern
history from 1789 to 1945 which concentrates principally
on key political developments in European and global
history such as the French Revolution, the expansion of
the European empires and the two world wars.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Duration
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Lecture
1hr0min
Seminar
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment
One lecture per week and one seminar per fortnight
Assessment Type
Coursework 1 (30%)
Coursework 2 (40%)
Presentation 1 (30%)
Requirements
500-word primary source
commentary
1000-word Individual Reflective
Review
One paired presentation
Assessment Type
Coursework 1 (50%)
Requirements
One 2,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (50%)
One 2,000 word essay
Convenor Dr D Hucker
Convenor Dr C Taylor
V112A9
V112A3
Credits
Credits
Europe in transition: An introduction
to early modern history c.1500-1789
10
Level 1
Target students Only available to Exchange (mobility)
students at Nottingham for the Autumn Semester, and
History students transferring degree programme during
the Session
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This module introduces students to major
issues in the social, political and economic history of
Europe in the early modern period by analysing religious,
social and demographic changes that took place between
c. 1500 and 1789. Students will examine the tensions
produced by religious conflict, new social and cultural
developments, and the changing relationship between
rulers, subjects and political elites.
Method and frequency of class:
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Level 1
students at Nottingham for the Autumn Semester, and
History students transferring degree programme during
the session.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This module provides an introduction to
medieval European history in the period 500-1200. It
offers a fresh and stimulating approach to the major forces
instrumental in the shaping of politics, society and culture
in Europe. Through a series of thematically linked lectures
and seminars, students will be introduced to key factors
determining changes in the European experience over
time, as well as important continuities linking the period as
a whole. Amongst the topics to be considered are: political
structures and organization; social and economic life; and
cultural developments.
Method and frequency of class:
Duration
Activity
1hr0min
Lecture
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One lecture per week and one seminar per fortnight
Assessment
Assessment Type
Coursework 1 (50%)
Requirements
One 2,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (50%)
One 2,000 word essay
Convenor Dr A Booth
10
Target students Only available to Exchange (mobility)
Description
Description
Activity
Introduction to the Medieval World
500-1200
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One lecture per week and one seminar per fortnight
Assessment
Assessment Type
Coursework 1 (50%)
Requirements
One 2,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (50%)
One 2,000 word essay
Convenor Dr G Dodd
Level 2
V12102
V12104
From Ivan the Terrible to Peter the
Great: Russia in the early modern
period 1547–1725
Credits
From East India Company to West
India Failure: The First British
Empire
20
Level 2
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
Target students History Single and Joint Honours Students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
Description
Credits
20
Level 2
This module considers:
the emergence of Muscovite Russia as a major player on
the European arena by the early eighteenth century
the structure of political power in early modern Russia
rapid territorial and racial expansion from the sixteenth
century and its consequences
the Time of Troubles: Muscovy’s first civil war and the
change of ruling dynasty
the struggle of the Russian crown to curtail the power of
its aristocracy
the beginning of Russia’s slow progress towards
‘Westernisation’
the ground-breaking reforms of Peter I
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
The British Empire is re-entering public
debate; in schools, television, parliament and the
academic world. Rather than being embarrassed by our
imperial past, it is now realised that it is better to
understand that past’s relationship with the present. This
module is not concerned with the Raj and the scramble for
Africa, but the early beginnings of Empire. The module will
investigate key themes of the ‘first’ British Empire, from
the monopoly of the British East India Company chartered
in 1600, to the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807.
Debates will include the ideology of Empire, the protection
of Empire by the state, the ‘planting’ and subsequent ‘loss’
of British North America, the new ‘drugs’ (such as sugar,
coffee, tea and tobacco), and the identity of those at home
and at the periphery of Empire. Key themes are ideology
and identity of Empire, formal and informal Empire, and
causes and consequences.
Method and frequency of class:
2hr0min
Activity
2hr0min
Lecture
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One lecture weekly, one semiinar fortnightly.
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr L Sharipova
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr S Haggerty
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
V12120
Credits
Blood and Treasure: Vikings, Franks
and Anglo-Saxons 793-910
20
Level 2
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
V12153
Credits
The Contemporary World since 1945
20
Level 2
Target students Single Honours History (compulsory
module) and Joint Honours History (optional module)
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
The module examines the impact of the
Vikings as raiders, mercenaries, settlers and traders in the
Frankish Empire and Anglo-Saxon England in the ninth
century. It will also trace the political and cultural
development of the Frankish Empire and Anglo-Saxon
England in this period. Key topics include:
debate on size of Viking settlement
Viking assimilation and acculturation
debate on contribution of Vikings to the breaking-up of the
Frankish empire
extent to which later (11th and 12th c.) medieval sources
have shaped the reputation of the Vikings, and influenced
our understanding of events
Description
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Lecture
Seminar
1per wk
Duration
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr JS Barrow
V12134
Credits
Consumers & Citizens: Society &
Culture in 18th Century England
20
Level 2
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This thematic module examines the mental,
social and cultural world of eighteenth century England in
the period when it enters the modern world. Areas for
consideration include the structure of society,
constructions of gender and culture, urban life, the press
and the reading public, the criminal law, social protest and
the rise of radical politics.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Students attend a weekly lecture and weekly seminars
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr A Booth
Activity
Seminar
Lecture
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
1hr0min
Exam 1 (60%)
Method and frequency of class:
One one-hour lecture per week. One two-hour seminar
per fortnight.
1hr0min
Assessment Type
The module surveys and analyses some of the
main developments in world affairs since the end of the
Second World War. This includes major international
events, particularly the course and aftermath of the Cold
War, as well as national and regional histories, especially
in Europe, East Asia and the Middle East. Attention is paid
to political and economic forces.
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Presentation 1 (20%)
Convenor Dr S Browne
Requirements
One two hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
One assessed student-led seminar
V12164
Credits
The Second World War and Social
Change in Britain, 1939-1951: Went
The Day Well?
20
Level 2
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
V12211
Credits
Communities, Crime and Punishment
in England c.1500-1800
20
Level 2
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This module surveys and analyses social
change in Britain during and after the Second World War,
up to the end of the Attlee’s Labour government in 1951.
Key issues include:
changing gender roles and expectations
the experience and impact of rationing, bombing,
conscription, voluntary service and direction by central
government
historiographical debates about whether Britain was united
against a common enemy
propaganda, mass communication and the management of
information
planning for a post-war world, including the creation of the
National Health Service and the reform of the education
system
post-war reconstruction of cities
reactions to the Holocaust, atomic weaponry, returning
service personnel, returning Prisoners of War
post-war austerity
representations of the period and the construction of
memory.
Description
Description
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
2hr0min
One one-hour lecture per week and one two-hour seminar
per fortnight
Assessment
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr TN Thomas
Activity
Lecture
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment Type
Method and frequency of class:
Seminar
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
This module will survey and analyse how
perceptions of law and order, and attitudes to crime and
punishment changed in England during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries – ostensibly in response to huge
increase in criminal activity. The module will discuss the
wider background factors behind these changes, as well as
relevant historiographical debates about them. The major
topics to be explored include:
The machinery of justice
Policing early modern communities
Vagabondage and the problem of the poor
Rioting, disorder and the negotiation of authority
Organised crime: myths and realities
Criminality and religion
Women, crime and the courts
Crime and the state
Changing attitudes to punishment 1500-1800
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr D Appleby
Requirements
One 3 hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
V12221
Credits
Kingship in Crisis: Politics, People
and Power in Late-medieval England
20
Level 2
Target students Second year single and joint honours
history students.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
Political and constitutional history form the
core of this module, which covers a period when kingship
in England was a high-risk occupation. From the
late-thirteenth century until the middle of the fifteenth
century wars against France and Scotland dominated the
political scene; plague and social disruption contributed to
long-term changes.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Lecture
Seminar
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
V12260
Credits
Sexuality in Early Medieval Europe
20
Level 2
Target students Second year single and joint honours
History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This module deals with an important, but long
neglected, aspect of life in the early medieval West sexual behaviour and attitudes to human sexuality. Key
issues include:
Description
ancient, medieval and modern theories of sexuality
Christian beliefs about the family and marriage, and
challenges to these
the regulation of sexual behaviour as expressed in law
codes and books of penance, including violent sexual
activity
alternative sexualities
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Method and frequency of class:
Assessment
Lecture
Assessment Type
Requirements
One 3 hour exam
Exam 1 (60%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor
V12243
Credits
International History of the Middle
East 1914-1982
20
Level 2
in Year 2 of their degree
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
The module focuses primarily on the political
and diplomatic history of the Middle East including the
creation of the modern state system after World War I, the
continuing influence of western imperialism, the impact of
the Cold War, the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and
the emergenc of political Islam. However, broader themes
are also considered, in particular the role of competing
ideologies and the impact which external factors have had
in shaping the modern politics of the Middle East.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Lecture
Seminar
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Fortnightly seminars. Occasional group and individual
consultations on assessed seminars and essays.
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
Activity
Activity
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
10 weekly lectures. 10 weekly seminars.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr S Mawby
Requirements
one three hour exam
One 3,000- word essay
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Seminar (20%)
Convenor Dr R Balzaretti
Requirements
One 2 hour exam
One 3,000 word essay
Seminar presentations and seminar
work
V12262
Credits
Russian State and Society,
1861-1917
20
Level 2
V12265
Credits
British Foreign Policy and the Origins
of the World Wars, 1895-1939
20
Level 2
Target students History Honours students and subsidiary
Target students Single and Joint Honours students in
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This module examines the modernisation
process in Russia from the eve of Alexander II's great
reforms up until the October revolution of 1917. The
approach of this module will be to look at Russia both from
the top down, and from the bottom up; on the one hand, it
will consider the formation of domestic and foreign policy
by the tsarist administration, and the economic
development of Russia in this period, and on the other
hand it will consider the evolution of society in this period
at all levels. Particular attention will be paid to the rural
population, which formed the vast bulk of Russia's
population.
Description
students
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Seminar
1hr0min
Assessment
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr S Badcock
Method and frequency of class:
Lecture
1hr0min
Plus occasional group and individual consultations on
seminars and essays.
Exam 1 (60%)
This module provides a study of British foreign
policy, from the last years of the Victorian Era to the
German invasion of Poland in 1939. It focuses in particular
on the policy of British governments, giving an historical
analysis of the main developments in their relationship
with the wider world, such as the making of the ententes,
entry into the two world wars, appeasement and relations
with other great powers. It also discusses the wider
background factors which influenced British policy and
touches on such diverse factors as Imperial defence,
financial limitations and the influence of public opinion.
Activity
Duration
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment Type
History
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
1per wk
One 3 hour exam
One 3,000 word essay
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One one-hour lecture and one one-hour seminar per
week.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Requirements
1hr0min
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Professor JW Young
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
V12267
Credits
Race, Rights and Propaganda: The
Superpowers, The Cold War and the
Politics of Racial Identity, 1945-1989
20
Level 2
Target students Single and Joint Honours in History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
The Cold War was a conflict defined as much
by bipolar intellectual and ideological struggle as by
conventional military means or realpolitik. Conceptions of
race and ethnicity were by no means immune from this,
but heavily disputed and contested in the political
environment of the Cold War. Both the United States and
the Soviet Union played active roles in shaping the politics
of racial identity in this period, both at home and abroad.
This module examines how the two superpowers dealt with
questions of race and identity during the Cold War years,
confronting questions and challenges from both within
their own borders (and each other’s) and in a major
theatre of superpower conflict – post-colonial Africa.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr J Merton
V13145
Credits
Peasants, Slaves and Serfs in the
Middle Ages
20
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This module examines the nature of freedom,
slavery and serfdom in western Europe from the Late
Roman Empire to the Late Middle Ages, a period of some
1000 years in which a variety of forms of servitude
co-existed alongside the most prized legal status,
freedom. It concentrates on the rural population and looks
at the legal, social and economic impact of various forms
of labour exploitation employed by the rural elite, and also
at the role played by the `state' in mediating social
relations on the land. Topics addressed include:
theories employed in peasant and slavery studies
interdisciplinary approaches to rural studies
slavery and revolt in the Late Roman Empire
slavery and freedom in the Early Middle Ages
the `end' of slavery in the High Middle Ages
the persistence of slavery into the Late Middle Ages
origins of and opposition to high-medieval serfdom
serfdom in the High and Late Middle Ages
peasant community in the High and Late Middle Ages
peasant revolt in the Late Middle Ages
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Assessment
Assessment Type
Level 3
Requirements
One 3-hour examination
One 3000 word essay
Activity
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr C Taylor
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
V13147
Credits
France 1940-44 – and beyond
20
Level 3
V13150
Credits
Britain on Film
20
Level 3
Target students History Single and Joint Honours Students
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This module surveys and analyses defeated,
occupied, Vichy, resister and liberated France, 1940-44 –
and the meanings of and reactions to this period
subsequent to it. In this broad exploration, the course
aims to reach understandings of and explanations for why
the period has remained so potent in France up to the
present day. Issues to be studied include collaboration, the
historiography of Vichy, Vichy as a gendered regime,
resistance, Jews, deportation and the Holocaust in France,
liberation, trials of those accused of crimes against
humanity, occupied France in the cinema and how
occupied France has been remembered at different points
since the end of the German Occupation.
Description
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
An analysis of some of the key films made in
Britain since 1945. The module uses a series of films as
historical documents, and will analyse what they can tell
us about the society which produced them. Also an enquiry
into the use of film as a historical document. Films will be
screened in the Hallward library as an addition to
classroom time. Key themes/films:
Film/History/Theory
The Documentary Movement
In Which We Serve
Brief Encounter
Victim
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Dracula
The Servant
Blow Up
Room With a View
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr K Adler
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Seminar (20%)
Convenor Dr H Cocks
Requirements
One two hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Seminar presentations and seminar
work
V13214
Credits
France during the Belle Epoque:
Image and Reality
20
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This module is concerned with the period
1880 to 1914, between the firm establishment of a
republican regime in France and the outbreak of the First
World War. It revolves around the contrasts between the
image of a so-called Belle Epoque and the underlying
reality perceived by historians. Key topics are:
Description
the use and abuse of leisure
the Dreyfus affair
the Catholic Church and the Republic
anarcho-syndicalism
the 'protection of women' workers
solidarism
the Union Scacée of 1914
V13265
Credits
From Serf to Proletarian: The
Russian Peasantry 1825-1932
20
Level 3
Target students Part II History Single and Joint Honours
Students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This module assesses the development of the
Russian peasantry in the period 1825 to 1932, within the
broader context of comparative literature on the
peasantry. This period encompasses events from the
revolt of the Decembrists, the emancipation of the serfs,
through revolution to Lenin's years in power. Key themes
for the module include: who defines the peasantry?
Conceptions and understandings of the category; regional
differentiation of Russia's peasantry; peasant relations
with and resistance to the state; insiders and outsiders in
the Russian villages; peasant notions of justice and
conceptions of authority; men, women, children-changing
relations between sexes and generations.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Activity
Duration
Seminar
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Two 1 hour lectures.
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Seminar (20%)
Convenor Dr CM Heywood
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One two-hour introductory lecture followed by weekly
two-hour seminars.
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment Type
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Requirements
One 2 hour exam
One 3,000 word essay
Seminar presentations and seminar
work
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Seminar (20%)
Convenor Dr S Badcock
Requirements
One 2 hour examination
One 3,000-word essay
Assessed seminar
V13315
Credits
The Great Plague and Great Fire of
London: Society, Culture and
Disaster
20
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
Method and frequency of class:
Seminar
Lecture
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr J Merritt
Credits
Cities, Factories and Cultural Living:
Interwar Japan
20
Level 3
Target students Final year SH and JH History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
This module considers Japan’s encounter with
modernity during the ‘interwar period’ (1905-1931) from
Japan’s victory in the Russo-Japanese War until the
Manchurian Incident. Politically, this period witnessed a
brief period of liberalisation with the beginning of a
democratic party system in 1918, the rise of labour and
Leftist movements, and of feminist consciousness.
Socially, there were massive changes with the growth of
urbanisation, educational opportunity and literacy and the
growth of a middle class, consumerist urban society.
Culturally, the Taishô period is synonymous with
‘Westernisation’ giving rise to debates about bunkashugi
(culturalism) and bunka seikatsu (cultural living) as well as
concerns about the loss of Japanese identity and what it
means to be Japanese (nihonjinron). The period is
examined through 5 major themes:
Urbanisation (urban growth and city planning; Japanese
writers and the city).
Industrialisation (raw materials and imperialism; men,
women and the labour movement).
Culture and Consumerism (books, department stores,
eating and drinking; café culture, cultural living and the
‘culture house’).
Democratisation (Taishô democracy and liberalism; the
Japanese Emperor and nationalism).
Intellectual currents (Christianity and socialism; Marxism,
feminism and anarchism).
Description
In 1665, London suffered the worst plague
epidemic since the Black Death, killing over 97,000
people. The following year, the Great Fire destroyed
four-fifths of the ancient City of London within three days.
This course will seek to study the impact of these events
and to place them within the context of the 1660s
capital—a city left deeply divided after the civil war era
and yet a vibrant commercial and cultural centre enlivened
by the recent restoration of the monarchy.
Description
Activity
V13322
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr SC Townsend
Requirements
One 3-hour examination
One 3000 word essay
V13325
Credits
Cultures of Power and the Power of
Culture in Fascist Italy and Nazi
Germany
20
Level 3
V13326
Credits
The Making of Modern Italy: the
origins, course and memory of
Italian unification
20
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Autumn
In the two decades after the First World War,
two modern western European countries, Italy and
Germany, were transformed from liberal, parliamentary
democracies into fascist dictatorships. Historians have
offered detailed accounts of the political machinations that
made this transition possible. Yet recent historical
research has propelled a different question to the fore:
what reconciled so many ‘ordinary people’ to the
anti-democratic, illiberal and increasingly murderous
policies upon which these regimes embarked? This
question provides the starting point for this course, which
explores how fascism transformed normal life. In
particular, we will analyse how culture was employed to
translate fascist ideas into lived experience. After three
introductory sessions, which reconstruct the key
chronological phases of both regimes, and introduce some
historiographical controversies and the theoretical
concepts we employ, the course takes the form of
thematic sessions, each with a group presentation, and all
of them engaging with some primary sources, on the role
of consumerism, leisure, popular clubs and associations,
film, architecture and ritual etc under fascism. We shall
draw upon the theory of ‘governmentality’ (M Foucault) to
analyse how in all these spheres, a fascist outlook was
inscribed into the infrastructures of daily life, and thus
‘normalised’ their political beliefs into ‘common sense’.
Description
Description
2011 has witnessed the 150th anniversary of
the foundation of the united Italian state. Despite the
official celebrations, the unification of Italy remains bitterly
contested. This module seeks to explore how and why
Italy changed from being a patchwork of small states into
a single united state under the House of Savoy. It will
begin by asking how far Italians in the pre-unification saw
themselves and were seen by outsiders as belonging to a
single people or culture, and what hindered Italy emerging
as an ‘imagined community’ as well as a unified state. The
module will then turn to political and social change in Italy
from the enlightenment to unification. It will examine the
impact of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era on
Italy, which witnessed the overthrow of all the mainland
states of the ancien régime. It will turn to the Restoration
era before examining the 1848/9 revolutions that shook
the whole of Italy. The module will then explore the
growing rejection of revolutionary solutions to the Italian
question, the rise of Piedmont, and the wars of 1859, 1866
and 1870 that were so pivotal to the formation of the
Italian state. We shall also look at the dramatic
contribution of Garibaldi and popular participation to
unification, and ask why after unification there was such
widespread and bitter opposition to the united state.
Finally, the course will examine how 20th and 21st-century
Italians have engaged with the narrative of unification.
Method and frequency of class:
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Activity
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Seminar
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One two hour seminar per week
One two hour seminar per week
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
V112S3
Spring Semester
Credits
Credits
10
Level 1
Target students Only available to Exchange (mobility)
Level 1
V1108S
Themes in early modern European
history c.1500-1789
Learning History (10 Credits, Spring)
10
Level 1
Target students This module will normally be taken by
students who have been previously registered on the
20-credit year-long Learning History module V11108 but
have had their studies interrupted and are returning to
complete Semester 2
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Spring
The module will enhance learning skills and
knowledge already acquired on V11108, through
participation in a group project and an individual reflection
on the discipline of History. It aims to encourage more
effective learning in history and prepare students for more
advanced work in the discipline at Part I
Description
students at Nottingham for the Spring Semester, and
History students transferring degree programme during
the Session
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module introduces students to the major
developments in early modern European history, which
resulted from social, economic, political and cultural
changes that took place between c.1500 and 1789.
Students will examine the tensions produced by warfare,
religious conflict, the changing relationship between rulers,
subjects and political elites, development of trade, and the
discovery of the ‘New World’.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Method and frequency of class:
Lecture
Activity
Seminar
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Coursework 1 (80%)
Coursework 2 (20%)
Convenor Dr C Taylor
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One lecture per week and one seminar per fortnight
Assessment
Assessment Type
Assessment
Assessment Type
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Requirements
5000-word Group Project Report and
Portfolio
1000-word Individual Reflective
Review
Coursework 1 (50%)
Requirements
One 2,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (50%)
One 2,000 word essay
Convenor Dr A Booth
V112S5
Credits
Roads to Modernity: An Introduction
to Modern History 1789-1945 (Part
2)
10
Level 1
Target students Only available to Exchange (mobility)
students at Nottingham for the Spring Semester, and
History students transferring degree programme during
the Session
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
The module will examine the nature of
modernity through an analysis of economic, social and
cultural issues, such as industrialisation, urbanisation,
changing artistic forms and ideological transformations.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One lecture per week and one seminar per fortnight
Assessment
Assessment Type
Coursework 1 (50%)
Requirements
One 2000 word essay
Coursework 2 (50%)
One 2000 word essay
Convenor Dr D Hucker
V112S9
Credits
Introduction to the Medieval World
1200-1500
10
Level 1
Target students Only available to Exchange (mobility)
students at Nottingham for the Spring Semester, and
History students transferring degree programme during
the session
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module provides an introduction to
medieval European history in the period 1200-1500. It
offers a fresh and stimulating approach to the major forces
instrumental in the shaping of politics, society and culture
in Europe. Through a series of thematically linked lectures
and seminars, students will be introduced to key factors
determining changes in the European experience over
time, as well as important continuities linking the period as
a whole. Amongst the topics to be considered are: political
structures and organization; social and economic life; and
cultural developments.
Description
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Lecture
Seminar
1per wk
20
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One lecture per week and one seminar per fortnight
Assessment
Requirements
Level 2
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
The module mixes intellectual, cultural and
social history to produce an overview of cultural trends in
Britain between c. 1830 and 1901. Key themes include:
The Victorians, An Overview
Religion: Sin and Redemption
Poverty
Cities
Sanitation
Sexuality
Consumerism and the Mass Market
Entertainment
Evolution
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Seminar
1hr0min
The Victorians: Life, Thought and
Culture
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
Lecture
Duration
Assessment Type
Credits
Activity
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
V12101
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
One 2,000 word essay
Coursework 1 (40%)
One 2,000 word essay
Convenor Dr H Cocks
V1201A
Credits
The Contemporary World since 1945
20
Level 2
Target students Distance learning U21 students only.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Spring
The module surveys and analyses some of the
main developments in world affairs since the end of the
Second World War. This includes major international
events, particularly the course and aftermath of the Cold
War, as well as national and regional histories, especially
in Europe, East Asia and the Middle East. Attention is paid
to political and economic forces.
Description
Method and frequency of Class:
One 1 hr online lecture per week and one online
discussion per fortnight.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Coursework 1 (50%)
Oral (10%)
Coursework 2 (40%)
Convenor Dr S Browne
Requirements
5 x 350 word pieces of coursework
Participation in online discussion
One 3,000 word essay
1hr0min
One one-hour lecture per week and one one-hour seminar
per week
Coursework 2 (50%)
Level 2
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Coursework 1 (50%)
Convenor Dr G Dodd
Duration
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
V12105
Credits
Germany in the Age of Mass Politics
1870-1945: Modernity and Crisis
20
Level 2
V12146
Credits
Republics of Desire: Gender in 20th
Century France
20
Level 2
Target students History second year Honours students
Target students Honours students and subsidiary students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
The module analyses the formation of the
modern German state through the combined processes of
nation-building and industrialization, and the multiple
tensions that characterized it in the decades following
unification: class conflict, ethnic tensions and competing
views of gender. The module examines how war and
revolution intensified these tensions, which proved
incapable of resolution in the period of democracy that
followed. It goes on to consider the crisis of the
democratic state, the rise of National Socialism and its
unleashing of war and genocide.
Description
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Lecture
Seminar
1per wk
Duration
This module explores social and political
change and debate in modern France through questions of
gender. Drawing on theories about gender, we examine
the relationship between the State and its people during
the long twentieth century, and assess the impact of two
world wars and the legacies of French colonialism. Issues
to come under scrutiny include education, work, women in
both world wars and immigration. We will explore how
gender, and women's social position, were central to
French society and politics during the period. In
investigating the contradictions that emerge, the module
aims to understand some of the key features of the history
of modern France itself.
Method and frequency of class:
1hr0min
Activity
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Requirements
One 2 hour exam
Exam 1 (40%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 1 (40%)
One Student-led Seminar
Presentation 1 (20%)
Convenor Dr C Haase
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Credits
20
Level 2
Target students Second year single and joint honours
History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
Over the period 1750-1914, it has been
argued that England passed through an ‘industrial
revolution’. During this period, England certainly
experienced enormous changes in both rural and urban
areas. This module will investigate some of the economic
and social consequences including: the move of people
and industry to towns, changes in the countryside,
changes in living conditions, changing patterns of
consumption, and the changing structures of society. This
module will evaluate whether these changes in fact
represented a revolution, evolution or transformation.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor
Requirements
One 3 hour exam
One 3,000 word essay
2hr0min
One one-hour lecture per week, one two-hour seminar per
fortnight
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Rethinking the Industrial Revolution:
The Transformation of Britain,
1750-1914
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Coursework 1 (40%)
V12126
Duration
Convenor Dr K Adler
Requirements
One 3 hour exam
One 3,000 word essay
V12160
Credits
Central European History: From
Revolution to War, 1848-1914
20
Level 2
Target students History Single and Joint Honours students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module focuses on the evolution of the
Habsburg Monarchy from the 1848 revolutions to the
beginning of WWI. In particular it surveys key themes
such as:
Description
the difficulties of state-building
the growth of nationalism
the tension between local, regional and imperial
institutions and structures
the varied effects of modernization; and
the unpredictable evolution of politics.
There will also be some comparative analysis with
developments in other continental European countries, in
particular Germany.
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
1hr0min
1hr0min
Assessment
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr J Kwan
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
The Age of Empire: Conquest and
Colonialism since the 19th century
20
Level 2
Target students Single and Joint Honours students in
History; JYA/Erasmus students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module will introduce students to the key
themes, theories and debates that have informed the
study of modern European imperialism and colonialism.
Lectures and seminars will generally take a comparative
and/or thematic approach, focusing in particular on the
British and French overseas empires during the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Concepts and theories will be
explored using a variety of case studies looking at issues
such as the motivations underpinning Europe’s imperial
expansion during the nineteenth century, modes and
forms of colonial rule, as well as collaboration and
resistance.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
One one-hour lecture per week and one one-hour seminar
per week.
Exam 1 (60%)
Credits
Lecture
Duration
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment Type
V12209
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr MU Von Bulow
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
V12213
Credits
The Tokugawa World, 1600-1868
20
Level 2
Target students Single and Joint Honours History Students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module covers two-and-a-half centuries
in Japan during the early modern era when the land was
governed by a dynasty of Tokugawa shogun rulers. Often
characterized as a period of relative stability, it was also a
time of profound social, cultural and intellectual change.
Lectures and seminars address some of the historical
forces that would combine to transform society and lay the
foundations for Japan’s subsequent encounters with
modernity. Key themes include: the premises of Tokugawa
rule, control mechanisms and relations with daimyo lords;
the self-imposed policy of seclusion, trade and external
relations; transport networks, class mobility and
urbanization; the emergence of ‘the Floating World’ and
the growth of popular culture; natural disasters, famine
and economic crises; the responses of competing schools
of thought drawing on Japanese, Chinese and European
texts to address problems within Japanese society; the
‘Opening of Japan’ and the collapse of the Tokugawa
World.
Method and frequency of class:
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One one-hour lecture and one-hour seminar per week.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr AJ Cobbing
Credits
Exploring Historiography
20
Level 2
Target students Students registered for Single and Joint
Honours in History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Spring
Description
Activity
V12229
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
This module involves an independent exercise
in the study of historiography. Students will be expected
to plan, research and write a sustained analysis,
presenting a well-grounded, independent assessment of
the historiography of a chosen topic. Students will submit:
an initial 100-150-word synopsis for the essay, agreed
with a relevant academic supervisor (this work is not
assessed but there are penalties attached to the final
essay mark for non-submission of the synopsis)
a preliminary bibliography and draft chapter plan of up to
1500 words (this work is not assessed)
an assessed essay of 5000 words (maximum length; this
word limit includes all necessary footnotes and
references). Each essay should also have an abstract (for
which there is a separate 300-word limit) and a
bibliography (for which there is no word limit). Together,
this forms the assessment for the module.
Description
Support for the module is provided through the module
website (WebCT), which provides information on such
areas as bibliographic searching, deadlines for submission,
penalties for late submission of work and advice on
presentation and assessment. In addition, all students
attend a two-hour introductory meeting and a two-hour
session on methods and planning.
Method and frequency of Class:
One 2 hour introductory meeting (Autumn) and one 2
hour session on methods and planning (Autumn).
Assessment
Assessment Type
Coursework 1 (100%)
Convenor Dr J Merritt
Requirements
One 5,000 word essay (also see
Summary of Content)
V12235
Credits
Environmental History: Nature and
the Western World, 1800-2000
20
Level 2
Target students Single and joint honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
The module is an introduction to the
environmental history of the Western World over the past
two centuries. It examines the history of environmental
ideas and our changing attitudes to animals and nature,
alongside the history of human impacts on the
environment using the USA, Australia, New Zealand and
Great Britain as case studies. Topics include species
history, the rise of popular movements concerned with the
environment, the role of the state in environmental
protection, the history of pollution and pesticide use; the
National Park movement and the Nature Reserve and the
rise of outdoor leisure and recreation.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
3hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Combined lecture and seminar in a three-hour weekly
session.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr R Lambert
Requirements
one three hour exam
One 3,000-word essay
V12237
Credits
The Making of Modern Japan
20
Level 2
Target students Honours students and subsidiary students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
Japan is one of the world’s leading nations,
economically, strategically and technologically, and it
exerts a world-wide cultural influence belying its relatively
small geographical area and population. Japanese words
such as sushi, samurai, geisha, anime, karate, and
household brand-names such as Sony, Nintendo, Hitachi,
Toyota, Honda and Yamaha are very familiar to us, and
yet explaining Japan to the ‘non-specialist’ is frequently
hampered by common misconceptions. This module helps
students to look beyond stereotypical views and to
understand contemporary Japan by explaining how it was
transformed from a semi-feudal ‘backward’ nation at the
turn of the twentieth century into an economic
superpower, just twenty-five years after catastrophic war
and devastating defeat in 1945. The real ‘economic
miracle’ in Japan is not just measured in the numbers of
automobiles and other goods it produced and exported to
the rest of the world, but in the sheer numbers of its
people able to share rewards of progress and material
wealth which were unimaginable before the war. Such
progress, however, came at a cost to environment, family
and community. The making of modern Japan is examined
through a variety of media including secondary material,
primary documents, statistics, photographs, film and
anime. There are 6 major themes as follows: • Emperor
and People • ‘Encountering Modernity’ • Japan in the World
• Town and Country • ‘The Green Archipelago’ • Popular
Culture
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One hour lecture and one hour seminar per week plus
individual consultations on written work.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Requirements
One 3 hour exam
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
One 3,000 word essay
Convenor Dr SC Townsend
V12247
From Gladstone to Asquith: Britain
1868--1914
Please see full module record in the listing.
V12253
Credits
A Protestant Nation?: Politics,
Religion and Society in England,
1558-1640
20
Level 2
V12256
Credits
Revolutions in France, 1789-1871
20
Level 2
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
Target students Single and Joint Honours students in
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
History, JYA/Erasmus students
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module explores the causes of political
and religious instability in England in the century before
the Civil War, with a particular focus on the problematic
creation of a national identity. We begin by looking at the
troubled political and religious legacy inherited by Queen
Elizabeth. We then examine some of the forces that united
and divided English men and women during the period.
How did monarchs and local elites seek to justify their
authority in this period? To what extent were ideas of
hierarchy and obedience queried or accepted, and what
impact did such ideas have on daily life? Areas for
consideration include government ideology; popular beliefs
and literacy; the persecution and toleration of religious
minorities; the politics of the parish; and attitudes towards
birth, marriage and death.
Description
Key topics include:
This module focuses on the succession of
revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements that
convulsed France between 1789 and 1871. In particular it
considers the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic
periods, the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the Second
Empire under Napoleon III and the Paris Commune of
1871. Topics include:
Description
The Origins of the French Revolution:
The Revolution of the Terror.
Napoleon and the French Revolution;
Labour Unrest, 1830-34;
Popular culture in the Villages;
Workers and the Republic in 1848;
The Second Empire of Napoleon III;
Paris under Baron Haussmann;
The Paris Commune of 1871.
Method and frequency of class:
the formation of English national identity
perceptions of, and challenges to, royal authority
the changing policies of Elizabeth, James I and Charles I
popular beliefs and the spread of print culture
festive culture and moral regulation
anti-Catholicism and the Gunpowder Plot
religion and the road to Civil War
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Method and frequency of class:
Students have a one-hour lecture weekly and a two-hour
seminar fortnightly.
Activity
Assessment
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
Assessment Type
1hr0min
Exam 1 (40%)
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One lecture per week. One seminar per week
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr J Merritt
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 1 (40%)
Seminar (20%)
Convenor Dr CM Heywood
Requirements
One 2 hour exam
One 3,000 word essay
Seminar presentation and seminar
work
V12261
Credits
The Crusaders
20
Level 2
Target students History Honours and JYA
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module addresses evidence for crusader
motivation and experience through sources relating to
crusading activity in Europe and the Middle East from the
late eleventh century to the mid thirteenth century. It
seeks to understand how crusaders saw themselves and
their enemies, their experiences and activity on crusade
and as settlers, and how this horrifying yet enduringly
fascinating process has been interpreted historically.
Topics addressed will be:
crusades to the eastern Mediterranean (the 'Holy Land'
and Egypt)
crusades in western and eastern Europe (Spain, Greece,
the Baltic and the Albigensian Crusade)
detailed thematic examination of the motives,
involvement, interests and experience of four specific
groups; women, the lay elite, the ordinary laity and the
clergy
Description
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
2hr0min
Assessment
Coursework 1 (40%)
Presentation 1 (20%)
Convenor Dr C Taylor
The Vietnam War: A Social History,
1954-1975
20
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module surveys and analyses US
involvement in Vietnam and particularly its social impact in
the United States and Vietnam. Key issues include:
The Soldier’s War
Press Coverage of the Conflict
Changing US Public Opinion
The My Lai Massacre
The Vietnamese Experience
Protests Against the War
War Veterans and Their Reception in the United States
The Impact of US Withdrawal from Vietnam
War and Memory
Description
Seminar
1hr0min
10 one-hour weekly lectures. Weekly two-hour seminars.
Exam 1 (40%)
Credits
Activity
Duration
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment Type
V13168
Method and frequency of class:
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Level 3
Requirements
One 2 hour examination
One 3,000-word essay
One assessed student-led seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Seminar (20%)
Convenor Dr J Merton
Requirements
One two hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessed Seminar
V13190
Credits
The Missing Dimension: Intelligence
and International History in the 20th
Century
20
Level 3
V13198
Credits
Guns, Trade and Justice: the Treaty
Port System in China, Japan and
Korea, 1842-1947
20
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
Target students Single and Joint Honours History Students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
The history of secret intelligence was once
called the ‘missing dimension’ in the study of politics and
international relations. Today, it has established itself as a
separate field of historical enquiry. This module will
examine how the study of secret intelligence has informed
and sometimes even altered our understanding of some of
the major political and international crises of the 20th
century. Some of the topics that will be covered include
the rise of modern intelligence communities from World
War I; their use and abuse by governments; their impact
on policy and events; the role of intelligence during World
War II and the Cold War. By focusing on countries such as
Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, students
will also become familiar with the major differences in the
nature, purpose, and working of secret intelligence in
democratic and totalitarian regimes.
Description
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
This module covers the development of the
treaty port system in East Asia during the nineteenth
century. It addresses the power relations manifest in the
Western intrusion and Asian responses over the contested
ground of trade and jurisdiction in the treaty ports. Key
themes include:
Gunboat diplomacy
Unequal treaties
Tariff reform
Foreign settlements and concessions
The Tribute System and International Law
Consular jurisdiction and extraterritoriality
Treaty ports as crucibles of cultural interaction
Treaty ports as gateways of cultural exchange
Treaty ports in East Asian encounters with modernity
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Duration
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Seminar
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Weekly two-hour seminars
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Seminar (20%)
Convenor Dr MU Von Bulow
Assessment Type
Requirements
One two hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Requirements
One three hour examination
Exam 1 (60%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr AJ Cobbing
Assessed seminar
V13207
Credits
Kings, Saints and Monsters in
England c. 450--850
20
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module examines cultural and political
changes in the southern half of the island of Britain
between the fifth and ninth centuries, in particular the
development of kingship and kingdoms as a form of
political organisation, and the effects of the conversion of
the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity,
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Individual tutorials when appropriate.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Seminar (20%)
Convenor Dr JS Barrow
Requirements
One 2 hour exam
One 3,000 word essay
Seminar presentations and seminar
work
V13307
Credits
Late Imperial Culture: The
Fin-de-Siecle in Central Europe,
1890-1914
20
V13312
Philosophies of the Revolution:
Anti-Imperialism and British
Decolonization in the Twentieth
Century
Level 3
Target students History Single and Joint Honours students
Credits
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module looks at the great flowering of
culture in Central Europe during the last years of the
Habsburg Monarchy. In recent years the study of ‘Vienna
1900’ has grown to encompass such diverse figures as
Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg, Klimt, Schiele, Schnitzler,
Hofmannsthal, Kraus, Wittgenstein, Otto Wagner, Loos
and many others. Yet this dazzling collection of mostly
Viennese men only scratches the surface of fin-de-siecle
Central European cultural world. This module aims to
encourage students to develop a detailed understanding of
fin-de-siecle Central European culture; its roots,
achievements and failures. The students will engage with
the existing historiographical debates; in particular the
political, social and psychological causes of this late
flowering.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Weekly two-hour seminars. Occasional group and
individual consultations on essays.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr J Kwan
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
20
Level 3
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
The module aims to provide students with an
overview of some of the ideas which emerged in the
periphery of the British empire during the 20th century
and their influence on decolonization in India, the West
Indies, Malaya, the Arab world and Ghana. Five texts will
be examined particularly closely: Gandhi’s overview of his
life and opinions (The Story of My Experiments with
Truth), Eric Williams’s memoir of his life and education in
Trinidad (Inward Hunger), Chin Peng’s account of his war
against the British in Malaya (Alias Chin Peng), Nasser’s
treatise on revolutionary politics in the Arab world (The
Philosophy of the Revolution) and Nkrumah’s analysis of
his role in the anti-colonial struggle in Ghana (The
Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah). Students will be
asked to explore broader issues raised by these works
such as the relationship between nationalism, socialism
and communism in the periphery of empire, competing
explanations for decolonization, and the successes and
failures of the post-colonial nation-states.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr S Mawby
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
V13314
Credits
From Dictatorship to Democracy: The
Politics of Memory in Germany after
1945
20
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
V13320
Credits
‘That Dreadful Monster’: War, Society
and the English State 1653-1702
20
Level 3
Target students Single and joint honours students in
History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
This module explores the interactions between
the democratisation of Germany after 1945 and the
politics of memory. It analyses the impact of the Allied
de-nazification programme, the Nuremberg and Auschwitz
Trials, the Fischer-debate, the “Historikerstreit” and other
major debates about Germany’s past on the political
culture of Germany. Furthermore, it explores the politics of
memory in the context of the rivalry between the two
German states in the cold war and the wider transition
from dictatorship to democracy in Europe after the Second
World War.
Description
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Seminar (20%)
Convenor Dr C Haase
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Assessment
Assessment Type
In 1671 James Turner compared the
peacefulness of Great Britain and Ireland to the terror of
incessant war on the European continent. Except for the
obvious exception of the British Civil Wars (1639-1652),
his observation was typical of English writers since
Elizabeth’s time. However, during the early modern period
it was regularly in the interests of the English state to
ensure that large numbers of the male population of the
British Isles entered military service. This module
examines the pressures – cultural, socio-economic,
political and commercial – which drove thousands to go
and fight in early modern Europe and the wider world. The
period 1653 to 1702 takes us from the beginnings of a
military dictatorship (the Cromwellian Protectorate)
through to the Standing Army Controversy which flared up
during the reign of William III. Overall, this module seeks
to explain how a country which regularly professed its love
of peace could nevertheless feed so many of its people to
what Turner called ‘that dreadful monster War’.
Requirements
One two hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
One student-led seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Seminar
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Requirements
One three-hour examination
One 3000 word essay
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Dr D Appleby
V13324
Credits
The Great War: Britain 1914-18
20
Level 3
Target students Final year Single and Joint Honours
History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Includes 'study abroad'
Semester Spring
The module surveys and analyses the impact
of the First World War on Great Britain. It examines the
war in its economic, social and political aspects as well as
the broad military and naval developments. It also
analyses the impact of the war on Britain in the
subsequent decade, including the ways in which the war
was commemorated and portrayed.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (60%)
Coursework 1 (40%)
Convenor Professor CJ Wrigley
Requirements
One 3 hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
V11205
Full Year
Credits
V11108
Learning History (20 Credits)
20
Level 1
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
only
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This module will provide students with the
learning skills necessary to make the most of their studies
in History. It concentrates upon their conceptions of the
subject and their strategies as learners, in order to enable
them more effectively to monitor and develop their skills
and understanding. The module aims to encourage more
effective learning in history, bridge the transition from
school or college to university, prepare students for more
advanced work in the discipline at Part I, and enhance the
skills listed.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
20
Level 1
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
Level 1
Credits
Roads to Modernity: An Introduction
to Modern History 1789-1945
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Duration
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
In the first semester the module provides a
chronology of modern history from 1789 to 1945 which
concentrates principally on key political developments in
European and global history such as the French
Revolution, the expansion of the European empires and
the two world wars. The second semester will look more
broadly at economic, social and cultural issues, such as
industrialisation, urbanisation, changing artistic forms and
ideological transformations in order to consider the nature
of modernity.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Lecture
Seminar
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One lecture per week and one seminar per fortnight
1hr0min
Assessment
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment Type
Requirements
One two hour examination
Exam 1 (40%)
One 2000 word essay
Coursework 1 (25%)
Assessment
Assessment Type
Presentation 1 (15%)
500-word primary source
commentary
5000-word Group Project Report and
Portfolio
1000-word Individual Reflective
Review
One paired presentation
Presentation 2 (15%)
Group presentation of project
Coursework 1 (10%)
Project 1 (50%)
Coursework 2 (10%)
Convenor Dr C Taylor
Seminar performance and attendance
Seminar (10%)
Requirements
One 2000 word essay
Coursework 2 (25%)
Convenor Dr D Hucker
V11213
Credits
From Reformation to Revolution: An
introduction to early modern history
c.1500-1789
20
Level 1
Target students Single and Joint Honours in History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This module introduces students to major
issues in the social, political and cultural history of Europe
in the early modern period by analysing demographic,
religious, social and cultural changes that took place
between c.1500 and 1789. Students will examine the
tensions produced by warfare, religious conflict, the
changing relationships between rulers, subjects and
political elites, trends in socio-economic development and
the discovery of the ‘New World’.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One lecture per week and one seminar per fortnight
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (25%)
Seminar (10%)
Coursework 2 (25%)
Convenor Dr A Booth
Requirements
One two hour examination
One 2,000 word essay
Seminar performance and attendance
One 2,000 word essay
V11219
Credits
Introduction to the Medieval World
500-1500
20
Level 1
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This module provides an introduction to
medieval European history in the period 500-1500. It
offers a fresh and stimulating approach to the major forces
instrumental in the shaping of politics, society and culture
in Europe. Through a series of thematically linked lectures
and seminars, students will be introduced to key factors
determining changes in the European experience over
time, as well as important continuities linking the period as
a whole. Amongst the topics to be considered are: political
structures and organization; social and economic life; and
cultural developments.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Lecture
Seminar
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
1hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One lecture per week and one seminar per fortnight
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (25%)
Seminar (10%)
Coursework 2 (25%)
Convenor Dr G Dodd
Requirements
One two hour examination
One 2,000 word essay
Seminar performance and attendance
One 2,000 word essay
Level 3
V13136
Credits
The British Civil Wars c.1639-1652
40
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours in History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This module surveys and analyses political,
religious, social, cultural and military changes during the
civil wars fought across the British Isles between 1642 and
1651. The major topics to be explored include:
Description
the causes of the civil wars
the mobilisation of civilian communities
the course of the civil wars
the impact of war on individuals and communities
religious and political change
the growth of religious and political radicalism
print culture and propaganda
the changing roles of women
the issues surrounding the public trial and execution of the
king
the abolition of the British monarchy
the ‘Celtic dimension’ of the conflict
the Civil Wars in the British Atlantic
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
The module is taught principally through the vehicle of
seminar discussions, lasting two hours. Discussions will be
based around specific questions, documentary extracts
(‘gobbets’) or relevant historiographical debates. Some
seminars may take the form of team debates or role-play
exercises.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Requirements
One three hour examination
Coursework 1 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (20%)
One gobbet documentation
interrogation totalling 3,000 words
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 3 (20%)
Convenor Dr D Appleby
V13154
Credits
Sex and Society in Britain Since 1900
40
V13160
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This module is an examination of the links
between sexuality, intimate life, identity, politics, society,
power and the state in Britain since 1900. It will also
examine theoretical approaches to the study of sexuality
and analyse sexuality as a category of historical analysis.
Key themes:
Theorising Sexuality in History
Free Love and Eugenics
Sexology
Psychoanalysis and the Therapeutic Revolution
Sapphic Modernity
Birth Control and Sexual Knowledge
Marriage and Society
Queer London: Male Homosexuality 1918-1957
Wolfenden
Transsexuality and Gender
Permissive Society and Counter Culture
The AIDs Crisis
Description
Credits
The History of a Relation: Jews in
Modern Europe
40
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours in History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This special subject surveys and analyses the
place of Jews in modern European history. Throughout the
modern period – and, indeed, before – Jews lived in
Europe as part of a minority. The module is therefore
essentially about a relation between Jews and non-Jews, a
relation that was extremely enduring, productive and
resilient. It is the contention of this module that the story
of the relationship’s development and evolution can tell us
a great deal of the history of Europe as a whole.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Assessment
Duration
Assessment Type
2hr0min
Exam 1 (40%)
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (20%)
Seminar (20%)
Coursework 2 (20%)
Convenor Dr H Cocks
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessed seminar presentation and
seminar work
One 3,000 word essay
Requirements
One three hour examination
Coursework 1 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 3 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Convenor Dr K Adler
V13178
Credits
A Mission to Civilize? France & the
Maghreb, ca. 1830-2005
40
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
In this year-long module, students will explore
the long and tempestuous relationship between France
and the Maghreb - focusing particularly on Algeria - from
the ‘age of empire’ to present day. The module aims to
address a number of questions about the nature of
colonialism and decolonization, including:
What factors motivated France’s colonial expansion in the
Maghreb during the 19th and early 20th centuries?
How did the French govern and administer their North
African colonies?
How did they conceive of their North African subjects?
How did indigenous society react to the French invaders?
Why were the French so reticent to relinquish control over
their North African possessions in the post-1945 era?
And how has the colonial past shaped and influenced
post-colonial society and politics in the Maghreb and
France?
Description
These questions will be considered within a wider historical
and conceptual framework that will familiarize students
with various theories of colonialism and neo-colonialism,
with concepts such as republicanism, nationalism, and
Islamism, with terrorism and counter-insurgency warfare,
and with intellectual currents such as Orientalism.
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
V13211
Credits
The 1960s and the West, 1958-1974
40
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This special subject module surveys and
analyses social and cultural change in the West during the
`long Sixties' from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. Key
issues include:
The origins and nature of changes in norms of behaviour in
the 1960s such as the sexual revolution, attitudes to
authority, and the role of youth in society.
The impact of wider historical developments such as
post-war economic prosperity and the Cold War (the Berlin
Wall was constructed in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis
took place in 1962, for instance).
An emphasis on looking at the experiences of ordinary
people while acknowledging the role of major leaders.
The origins of a counterculture in the United States and
Britain.
The Vietnam War.
The development of protest movements such as the civil
rights campaign in the United States; the anti-nuclear
movement (CND was founded in 1958); student protest
movements; the anti-Vietnam War campaign.
The movement of protest campaigns toward the use of
violence, and ultimately the development of terrorist
campaigns in the 1970s (Baader-Meinhof, the
Weathermen, the Red Brigades).
The `second wave' of feminism from the late 1960s.
The representation of the decade in popular culture, both
in the 1960s and in subsequent decades, and in particular
the politicisation of debates about this controversial
period.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (20%)
Seminar (20%)
Coursework 2 (20%)
Convenor Dr MU Von Bulow
Level 3
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessed seminar
One 3,000 word essay
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (20%)
Seminar (20%)
Coursework 2 (20%)
Convenor Dr TN Thomas
Requirements
One 3 hour examination
One 3,000-word essay
Assessed Seminar
One 3,000 word gobbet exercise
V13228
Credits
The Norman Conquest: England
1016-1087
40
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
The module surveys political and military
developments in late Anglo-Saxon England, examines
reasons for the success of the Norman invasion in 1066,
and looks at political, social and cultural change in a
conquered society, and at the ways in which this was
interpreted by contemporary historians and those of the
following generation.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (20%)
Seminar (20%)
Coursework 2 (20%)
Convenor Dr JS Barrow
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessed seminar presentation and
seminar work
One 3,000 word essay
V13233
Credits
The British in Italy, c.1550-c.1950
40
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This module examines accounts of visits to
Italy written by British travellers in the period
c.1550-c.1950, especially these key topics:
methodologies necessary for analyzing travel writing as
historical evidence
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century published travellers'
accounts of their impressions of Italy and the Italians
the `Grand Tour', including the experiences of women
travellers
collecting and the development of notions of taste
the changing nature of travel writing in the nineteenth
century, including the Romantic response
the appearance of middle class travellers as `tourists'
the `guide book', a new genre of writing
tourists impressions of Fascist Italy
accounts of Second World War experiences
post-war travel and the formation of the modern tourist
industry.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (20%)
Seminar (20%)
Coursework 2 (20%)
Convenor Dr R Balzaretti
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessed seminar presentation and
seminar work
One 3,000 word essay
V13235
Credits
Britain in the Age of the French
Revolution: 1789-1803
40
Level 3
V13237
Credits
Childhood and Youth in 19th Century
Britain
40
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
Semester Full Year
This module is an in-depth study of the impact
of the French Revolution on British politics, society and
culture between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the
beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in 1803. Through an
exploration of primary documents and secondary texts,
students will investigate the events of the period and
consider the wide range of interpretations that have been
applied to these years by contemporaries and historians.
Subjects for consideration include:'the revolution debate' (e.g. Burke, Paine and
Wollstonecraft)
the development of popular radical and loyalist political
organisations
the government's use of legal apparatus against radicals
and publishers
the impact of scarcity and food crises in a time of war and
economic dislocation
the emergence of a so-called 'revolutionary underground'
after 1795
the Irish rebellion of 1798 and its antecedents
the ways in which loyalism, patriotism and nationalism
were articulated during this period (e.g. More and Gillray)
Description
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 2 (20%)
Convenor Dr CM Heywood
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 3 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
2hr0min
1hr0min
Assessment
2hr0min
Requirements
One three hour examination
Duration
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
1hr0min
Coursework 1 (20%)
Convenor Dr A Booth
Activity
Seminar (20%)
Assessment
Exam 1 (40%)
Method and frequency of class:
Coursework 1 (20%)
Duration
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment Type
This module focuses on key topics such as:
the cultural construction of childhood and adolescence in
the nineteenth century
parent-child relations
child labour
factory legislation
games and reading matter
courting customs
juvenile delinquency
`hooligans' and youth gangs
organized youth movements.
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessed seminar work
One 3,000 word essay
V13238
Credits
Heresy, Protest and Persecution in
the High Middle Ages
40
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This module examines the emergence of some
of the first popular movements of dissent in the Middle
Ages, from c.1000 AD to c.1250 AD, in the context of
understanding the societies they emerged in and the
religious forms through which they expressed themselves.
The earliest were labelled `heretics' in the sources, but
although many sects did apparently have views at odds
with Catholicism (believing that there were two gods being
amongst the most dangerous) at their hearts were often
radical views on how society should be organised. The
most significant, the Cathar heresy, was itself doctrinally
revolutionary but socially somewhat conservative.
Paradoxically, it became a major movement of social
dissent in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries for the
people it attracted; peasants and townspeople, knights
and noble men and women, and even priests, monks and
nuns. The module asks questions concerning the social
origins of heresies, their relationship to Church and secular
authorities, the persecution of heretics and their
supporters, their relation to other movements of dissent,
and the nature of belief and origin of ideas.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
V13239
Credits
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
The first half of the module is an in-depth
chronological survey of the domestic history of England
from the Good Parliament of 1376 to the deposition of
Richard II in 1399. We will investigate how the royal
family and their friends - a colourful and sometimes
scandalous group - struggled to rule the country with the
aid of such government instruments as show trials,
intimidation, legal advice, murder and poll-taxes. The
remaining part of the module considers England's relations
with its neighbours and the impact of Lollardy on society
and the Church in this period.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Seminar
Tutorial
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Requirements
One three hour examination
Coursework 1 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
2hr0min
Coursework 3 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
1hr0min
Convenor Dr G Dodd
Duration
V13241
Assessment
Credits
Requirements
One three hour examination
Coursework 1 (20%)
One source-based exercise
Coursework 2 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 3 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Convenor Dr C Taylor
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
The Reign of Richard II
40
40
Dissertation (History)
Level 3
Target students Students registered for Single and Joint
Honours in History whose courses require them to
complete a dissertation with History. Where a dissertation
with History is optional, students must check that they are
able to take their dissertation with History.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This module involves the in-depth study of a
historical subject, which is normally linked to the Special
Subject module taken by the student. Over the course of
the year students will:
identify a subject and complete a statement of objectives
for the research
assess the nature and value of the available primary and
secondary sources on the topic
submit a title and synopsis
submit a preliminary bibliography and chapter plan
the deadlines for submission of this work, and for the final
dissertation of 10,000 words, are advertised on the
module website (WebCT).
Description
Method and frequency of Class:
An introductory meeting. Minimum of three 1/2 hour
supervisions.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Dissertation (100%)
Convenor Dr JS Barrow
Requirements
One 10,000 word dissertation
V13247
Credits
Suez and the End of Empire
40
Level 3
V13255
Credits
Russia in Revolution 1905-21
40
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
Target students Single and Joint Honours History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
Semester Full Year
The module deals with the background to the
Suez crisis including British policy in the Middle East in the
post-war period, the controversies regarding surrounding
the Suez base, the free officers' revolution in Egypt, the
growth of Arab nationalism and the impact of American
policy. Subsequently the crisis itself, the war with Egypt
and its aftermath are analysed. Students will examine
documents from the British Foreign Office, the American
State Department and the memoirs and diaries of key
Egyptian, Israeli, British and American foreign
policy-makers. By the end of the course students will be
able to use this kind of primary material to offer their own
interpretations of the events which led to the Suez war.
Description
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
Method and frequency of class:
1hr0min
Activity
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Requirements
One three hour examination
Coursework 1 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 3 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Convenor Dr S Mawby
This module surveys and analyses Russia’s
development between the 1905 revolution and the end of
the civil war in 1921. The module focuses on the conflict in
historiographical debate over the nature and extent of
Russia’s political and social development, and on key
features of this period. These include the causes for and
impact of the 1905 revolution, Russia’s economic and
industrial development, challenges to rural life, the
development of civil society, the impact of World War One
on Russian society, and the thesis of continuum of crisis
between 1914 and 1921. Themes include the importance
of social identity in revolution, the importance of
symbolism and imagery in understanding revolution, the
role of violence and the language of hatred, and the roles
of individuals and key political groups within the
revolutionary process.
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (20%)
Seminar (20%)
Coursework 2 (20%)
Convenor Dr S Badcock
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Assessed seminar presentation and
seminar work
One 3,000 word essay
V13302
Credits
European Liberalism Ascendant:
1860-c1900
40
V13308
Level 3
‘World wasting itself in blood’:
Europe and the Thirty Years’ War
(1618–1648)
Target students Single and Joint Honours in History
Credits
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Target students Single and Joint Honours Students in
Semester Full Year
This module investigates the years of liberal
dominance in Europe’s political landscape. The main focus
will be the distinct paths of liberal politics across Europe in
the period 1860-c1900. Particular attention will be
devoted to:
the intellectual foundations of European liberalism
the legacy of the 1848 revolutions
the drafting of constitutions, bills of rights and a suitable
liberal legal framework
the difficulty in building a liberal state
the place of religion in a liberal society
the interaction with the protean power of nationalism and
the concrete reforms introduced by liberal politicians.
Description
The emphasis will be on how liberalism functioned in
practice, within its own context, taking into account the
possibilities and strictures of the time. Extensive use will
be made of original source materials and comparative
analysis will also be encouraged.
40
History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
This module considers:
the political and religious balance of power in early modern
Europe by the early seventeenth century
the origins of the Thirty Years’ War
the role of international politics
warfare and diplomacy
the social and economic impact of the Thirty Years’ War
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Seminar
Tutorial
1per wk
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Seminar
Tutorial
1per wk
Requirements
One three hour examination
1hr0min
Coursework 2 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 3 (20%)
One 3,000 word gobbet exercise
Convenor Dr L Sharipova
Assessment
V13310
Exam 1 (40%)
Requirements
One three hour examination
Coursework 1 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 3 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Convenor Dr J Kwan
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 1 (20%)
2hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment Type
2hr0min
1hr0min
Assessment
Activity
Duration
Duration
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Method and frequency of class:
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Level 3
Credits
From Gunpowder Plot to Spanish
Match: the Reign of James I
(1603-1625)
40
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
The reign of James I was a decisive period in
the history of Britain, marked by constitutional innovation,
court scandals, religious and political tensions and
conspiracies, a flourishing literary culture and the
emergence of highly critical forms of popular political
opinion. This course studies the interaction of these varied
phenomena while addressing the broader question of how
successful a ruler James was, and how far he can be held
responsible for the upheavals of the reign of his son,
Charles I.
Description
Method and frequency of class:
Activity
Seminar
Tutorial
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
1per wk
Duration
2hr0min
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (20%)
Requirements
One three hour examination
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 2 (20%)
One 3,000 word essay
Coursework 3 (20%)
One source-based exercise
Convenor Dr J Merritt
V13319
Credits
Early Entrepreneurs: Business
Culture in the British Atlantic
c.1600-1800
40
Level 3
Target students Single and Joint Honours in History
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
Method and frequency of class:
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Seminar
Tutorial
Duration
2hr0min
1per wk
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
One two-hour seminar per week plus one one-hour
tutorial.
Assessment
Assessment Type
Requirements
One three-hour examination
Exam 1 (40%)
Coursework 1 (20%)
One 3000 word essay
Coursework 2 (20%)
One 3000 word essay
One assessed presentation
Presentation 1 (20%)
Convenor Dr S Haggerty
V13321
Credits
Credits
Japan and the Asia-Pacific War:
Conflict, Aftermath and Memory
40
Level 3
Target students Final year SH and JH History students
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Semester Full Year
In 1940 Japan was a vibrant, modernising
power in the world replete with possibilities embedded in
its industrial technology, social organisation and global
intellectual engagement. Five years later, with its cities
ruined, its economy wrecked, its population exhausted,
hungry and despairing, Japan was defeated. Its
subsequent rise to become an economic superpower is
legendary. However, Japan is haunted by ‘contested war
memories’ and by the ghosts of the countless millions of
myriad nationalities left dead, maimed, displaced or
psychologically scarred in the wake of war inflicted upon
Asia by a Japanese leadership bent on fighting to the bitter
end. This module examines the reasons for Japan’s slide
into war, the Japanese people’s experience of war and its
on-going legacy in Asia and Japan through a variety of
media including secondary literature, documentary
evidence, witness testimony, film and popular culture
including animated film (anime). Students are warned
that some of this material contains graphic and
distressing imagery and description. There are 8
major themes:
At the crossroads: The 1930s
On the brink 1940-1.
Experiencing war, defeat and occupation.
The reckoning: Criminals, victims, collaborators and
resisters.
Reform and reconstruction.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in history, memory and popular
culture.
Hirohito and war responsibility.
Contested memories: Textbooks, the ‘Nanking Massacre’
and Comfort Women.
Description
Students will be introduced to major themes
of commercial capitalism in the Atlantic world of the first
British Empire. Using a number of case studies and
primary and secondary sources this course will investigate
the key themes of: the nature of entrepreneurship,
networks, risk, trust, reputation, obligation, the various
types of capital, the role of the mercantile community in
the British Atlantic.
Description
Activity
V13323
July Crisis: The Outbreak and Origins
of the Great War
40
Level 3
Target students Final year SH and JH History students
Method and frequency of class:
There is a limit to the number of places on this module. Students are
reminded that enrolments which are not agreed by the Offering School in
advance may be cancelled without notice.
Activity
Semester Full Year
Tutorial
The module surveys and analyses the policies
of the main countries involved in the outbreak of the First
World War in July-August 1914. It focuses in particular on
the reasons they took the diplomatic and military decisions
they did, including both specific decisions and the
background factors that helped shape their thinking.
Description
Seminar
Exam 1 (40%)
Tutorial
1per wk
Coursework 1 (20%)
2hr0min
Coursework 2 (20%)
1hr0min
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Assessment
Assessment Type
Exam 1 (40%)
Requirements
One 3-hour examination
Coursework 1 (20%)
One 3000 word essay
Coursework 2 (20%)
One 3000 word essay
Coursework 3 (20%)
One 3000 word essay
Convenor Professor JW Young
1hr0min
Assessment
Assessment Type
Seminar
2hr0min
Introductory lectures will be held in the first two weeks
and three seminars in the year will be dedicated to
showing and discussing film and anime.
Activity
Duration
1per wk
Duration
Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in
specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes
place in some weeks of a Semester
Method and frequency of class:
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
No. of
Sessions
1per wk
Presentation 1 (20%)
Convenor Dr SC Townsend
Requirements
One 3-hour examination
One 3000 word essay
One 3000 word essay
One assessed student-led seminar
Index by code
V1108A
V1108S
V11108
V11205
V11213
V11219
V112A3
V112A5
V112A9
V112S3
V112S5
V112S9
V1201A
V12101
V12102
V12104
V12105
V12120
V12126
V12134
V12146
V12153
V12160
V12164
V12209
V12211
V12213
V12221
V12229
V12235
V12237
V12243
V12247
V12253
V12256
V12260
V12261
V12262
V12265
V12267
V13136
V13145
V13147
V13150
V13154
V13160
V13168
V13178
V13190
V13198
V13207
V13211
V13214
V13228
V13233
V13235
V13237
V13238
V13239
V13241
V13247
V13255
V13265
V13302
V13307
V13308
V13310
V13312
V13314
V13315
V13319
V13320
V13321
V13322
V13323
V13324
V13325
V13326
Index by title
From Ivan the Terrible to Peter the Great:
Russia in the early modern period
1547–1725
‘That Dreadful Monster’: War, Society and
the English State 1653-1702
‘World wasting itself in blood’: Europe and
the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648)
A Mission to Civilize? France & the Maghreb,
ca. 1830-2005
A Protestant Nation?: Politics, Religion and
Society in England, 1558-1640
Blood and Treasure: Vikings, Franks and
Anglo-Saxons 793-910
Britain in the Age of the French Revolution:
1789-1803
Britain on Film
British Foreign Policy and the Origins of the
World Wars, 1895-1939
Central European History: From Revolution
to War, 1848-1914
Childhood and Youth in 19th Century Britain
Cities, Factories and Cultural Living:
Interwar Japan
Communities, Crime and Punishment in
England c.1500-1800
Consumers & Citizens: Society & Culture in
18th Century England
Cultures of Power and the Power of Culture
in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Dissertation (History)
Early Entrepreneurs: Business Culture in
the British Atlantic c.1600-1800
Environmental History: Nature and the
Western World, 1800-2000
Europe in transition: An introduction to
early modern history c.1500-1789
European Liberalism Ascendant:
1860-c1900
Exploring Historiography
France 1940-44 – and beyond
France during the Belle Epoque: Image and
Reality
From Dictatorship to Democracy: The
Politics of Memory in Germany after 1945
From East India Company to West India
Failure: The First British Empire
From Gladstone to Asquith: Britain
1868--1914
From Gunpowder Plot to Spanish Match:
the Reign of James I (1603-1625)
From Reformation to Revolution: An
introduction to early modern history
c.1500-1789
From Serf to Proletarian: The Russian
Peasantry 1825-1932
Germany in the Age of Mass Politics
1870-1945: Modernity and Crisis
Guns, Trade and Justice: the Treaty Port
System in China, Japan and Korea,
1842-1947
Heresy, Protest and Persecution in the High
Middle Ages
International History of the Middle East
1914-1982
Introduction to the Medieval World
1200-1500
Introduction to the Medieval World
500-1200
Introduction to the Medieval World
500-1500
Japan and the Asia-Pacific War: Conflict,
Aftermath and Memory
July Crisis: The Outbreak and Origins of the
Great War
Kings, Saints and Monsters in England c.
450--850
Kingship in Crisis: Politics, People and
Power in Late-medieval England
Late Imperial Culture: The Fin-de-Siecle in
Central Europe, 1890-1914
Learning History (10 Credits)
Learning History (10 Credits, Spring)
Learning History (20 Credits)
Peasants, Slaves and Serfs in the Middle
Ages
Philosophies of the Revolution:
Anti-Imperialism and British Decolonization
in the Twentieth Century
Race, Rights and Propaganda: The
Superpowers, The Cold War and the Politics
of Racial Identity, 1945-1989
Republics of Desire: Gender in 20th
Century France
Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: The
Transformation of Britain, 1750-1914
Revolutions in France, 1789-1871
Roads to Modernity: An Introduction to
Modern History 1789-1945
Roads to Modernity: An Introduction to
Modern History 1789-1945 (Part 1)
Roads to Modernity: An Introduction to
Modern History 1789-1945 (Part 2)
Russia in Revolution 1905-21
Russian State and Society, 1861-1917
Sex and Society in Britain Since 1900
Sexuality in Early Medieval Europe
Suez and the End of Empire
The 1960s and the West, 1958-1974
The Age of Empire: Conquest and
Colonialism since the 19th century
The British Civil Wars c.1639-1652
The British in Italy, c.1550-c.1950
The Contemporary World since 1945
The Contemporary World since 1945
The Crusaders
The Great Plague and Great Fire of London:
Society, Culture and Disaster
The Great War: Britain 1914-18
The History of a Relation: Jews in Modern
Europe
The Making of Modern Italy: the origins,
course and memory of Italian unification
The Making of Modern Japan
The Missing Dimension: Intelligence and
International History in the 20th Century
The Norman Conquest: England 1016-1087
The Reign of Richard II
The Second World War and Social Change
in Britain, 1939-1951: Went The Day Well?
The Tokugawa World, 1600-1868
The Victorians: Life, Thought and Culture
The Vietnam War: A Social History,
1954-1975
Themes in early modern European history
c.1500-1789