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MA (Hons) History: First year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 60 and 120 credits from Module List: AN1001 - AN1004, ME1003, ME1006, MO1007 - MO1008 AND
ME1003 The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20
ME1006 The Kingdom of the Scots, c.900-1707 20
MO1007 The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20
MO1008 Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20
AN1003 Ancient Empires 20
AN1004 Cities and Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Between 0 and 60 credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Over the first two years, passes must be gained in modules from at least two of the ranges AN,ME and MO and at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006. Students will only be allowed to take Honours modules in the AN, ME and MO ranges in which they have taken at least two Sub-honours modules.
MA (Hons) History: Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ View list Between 60 and 120 credits from Module List: AN2002 - AN2003, ME2003, MH2002, MO2008, HI2001 AND
ME2003 Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 20
MH2002 Introduction to Middle Eastern History 20
MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1700 - 2000) 20
HI2001 History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Over the first two years, passes must be gained in modules from at least two of the ranges AN,ME and MO and at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006. Students will only be allowed to take Honours modules in the AN, ME and MO ranges in which they have taken at least two Sub-honours modules.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • passes in modules marked ^

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.

MA (Hons) History: Third year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 60 credits from Module List: AA4001 - AA4989, AN4103 - AN4998 AND
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
AN4338 Women's Lives in the Ancient Mediterranean 30
AN4339 Land, Power, and the end of Antiquity 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4009 Petra and the Nabataeans: Classicism in the Desert 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME3001 - ME3689 ) OR
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3206 Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3223 The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
ME3232 Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3240 Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
ME3241 Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
ME3242 'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 30
ME3243 Orkneyinga Saga: Text and Context in the Medieval North Atlantic 30
ME3244 Serfdom and Slavery in the Middle Ages 30
ME3245 Invasion and Civil War: Remembering Conflict in Britain and Ireland in the Long Twelfth Century 30
ME3302 Survival and Stability: the Foundations of the Stewart Dynasty, 1371-1460 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Scotland Begins: Iona, D脙隆l Riata and the Picts 30
ME3309 Medieval 58吃瓜 30
ME3312 Kings and Rebels: The British Isles in the Age of Richard II 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
ME3314 Times of Trouble: Civil Conflicts in the Later Fifteenth-Century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
ME3407 Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law and Lordship 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3430 The Papal Monarchy: Popes, Emperors and Kings in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3431 Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3432 The Devil's Brood: Power and Authority in High Medieval England 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 30
ME3602 The Crusades Viewed from the Other Side: Muslim Perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: The Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
ME3618 The Middle East after the Mongols 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( View list 60 credits from Module List: AA4001 - AA4989, AN4103 - AN4998 AND
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
AN4338 Women's Lives in the Ancient Mediterranean 30
AN4339 Land, Power, and the end of Antiquity 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4009 Petra and the Nabataeans: Classicism in the Desert 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: MO3001 - MO3795 ) OR
MO3005 The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
MO3029 The Northern Renaissance 30
MO3033 Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
MO3038 War and the State in the Era of the Military Revolution (1550 - 1730) 30
MO3040 From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c.1500 - c.1800) 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
MO3048 Witches and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3054 Walking Early Modern Europe 30
MO3055 The History of History in East Asia 30
MO3056 The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3057 The Age of Atlantic Revolutions 30
MO3058 Religious Diversity in the Reformation Era: Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Rite Christians 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in Early Modern Scotland 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 30
MO3082 Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Early Modern Middle East 30
MO3110 Slavery and Capitalism in the United States 30
MO3113 Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the Age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3214 The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715-1789) 30
MO3217 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3220 The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3223 Early Colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
MO3224 States at Sea? Colonialism, Commerce and Culture in the Eighteenth-century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707 - c.1843 30
MO3301 Holocaust and Denial in Europe 30
MO3302 Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
MO3314 History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
MO3318 1848: Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
MO3320 Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
MO3321 Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3328 Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
MO3329 The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3335 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath (1873 - 1952) 30
MO3336 Mediterranean Colonialism: Colonisers and Colonised in France, Spain, Italy and North Africa 1890s - 1950s 30
MO3337 China's Revolutions (1850 - 1989) 30
MO3338 Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3346 Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1799) 30
MO3350 The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
MO3351 Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
MO3352 Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
MO3353 The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3356 Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3358 Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 30
MO3359 The United States in the Cold War and the Cold War in the United States 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3388 The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialisation and Globalisation 30
MO3389 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700芒鈧���1922 30
MO3391 Documentary Film and History 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788-1914 30
MO3393 The Formation of the Global South and Global North 30
MO3404 Britain in the Era of the Great War 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
MO3410 The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
MO3422 The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
MO3423 Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
MO3424 De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
MO3425 Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
MO3426 War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3427 Russian Imperialism in the 20th and 21st Centuries 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of Everyday Life 30
MO3502 War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3516 Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
MO3520 History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 30
MO3523 Postcolonial Europe: Empire and its Legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
MO3524 Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 30
MO3581 From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
MO3583 From Allied Invasion to Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
MO3584 British roads to socialism? Left-wing political thought in Britain since 1945 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( View list 60 credits from Module List: ME3001 - ME3689 AND
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3206 Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3223 The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
ME3232 Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3240 Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
ME3241 Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
ME3242 'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 30
ME3243 Orkneyinga Saga: Text and Context in the Medieval North Atlantic 30
ME3244 Serfdom and Slavery in the Middle Ages 30
ME3245 Invasion and Civil War: Remembering Conflict in Britain and Ireland in the Long Twelfth Century 30
ME3302 Survival and Stability: the Foundations of the Stewart Dynasty, 1371-1460 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Scotland Begins: Iona, D脙隆l Riata and the Picts 30
ME3309 Medieval 58吃瓜 30
ME3312 Kings and Rebels: The British Isles in the Age of Richard II 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
ME3314 Times of Trouble: Civil Conflicts in the Later Fifteenth-Century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
ME3407 Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law and Lordship 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3430 The Papal Monarchy: Popes, Emperors and Kings in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3431 Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3432 The Devil's Brood: Power and Authority in High Medieval England 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 30
ME3602 The Crusades Viewed from the Other Side: Muslim Perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: The Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
ME3618 The Middle East after the Mongols 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: MO3001 - MO3795 )
MO3005 The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
MO3029 The Northern Renaissance 30
MO3033 Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
MO3038 War and the State in the Era of the Military Revolution (1550 - 1730) 30
MO3040 From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c.1500 - c.1800) 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
MO3048 Witches and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3054 Walking Early Modern Europe 30
MO3055 The History of History in East Asia 30
MO3056 The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3057 The Age of Atlantic Revolutions 30
MO3058 Religious Diversity in the Reformation Era: Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Rite Christians 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in Early Modern Scotland 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 30
MO3082 Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Early Modern Middle East 30
MO3110 Slavery and Capitalism in the United States 30
MO3113 Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the Age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3214 The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715-1789) 30
MO3217 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3220 The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3223 Early Colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
MO3224 States at Sea? Colonialism, Commerce and Culture in the Eighteenth-century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707 - c.1843 30
MO3301 Holocaust and Denial in Europe 30
MO3302 Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
MO3314 History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
MO3318 1848: Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
MO3320 Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
MO3321 Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3328 Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
MO3329 The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3335 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath (1873 - 1952) 30
MO3336 Mediterranean Colonialism: Colonisers and Colonised in France, Spain, Italy and North Africa 1890s - 1950s 30
MO3337 China's Revolutions (1850 - 1989) 30
MO3338 Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3346 Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1799) 30
MO3350 The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
MO3351 Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
MO3352 Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
MO3353 The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3356 Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3358 Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 30
MO3359 The United States in the Cold War and the Cold War in the United States 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3388 The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialisation and Globalisation 30
MO3389 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700芒鈧���1922 30
MO3391 Documentary Film and History 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788-1914 30
MO3393 The Formation of the Global South and Global North 30
MO3404 Britain in the Era of the Great War 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
MO3410 The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
MO3422 The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
MO3423 Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
MO3424 De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
MO3425 Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
MO3426 War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3427 Russian Imperialism in the 20th and 21st Centuries 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of Everyday Life 30
MO3502 War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3516 Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
MO3520 History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 30
MO3523 Postcolonial Europe: Empire and its Legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
MO3524 Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 30
MO3581 From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
MO3583 From Allied Invasion to Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
MO3584 British roads to socialism? Left-wing political thought in Britain since 1945 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

Not more than 120 Honours credits may be chosen from the Scottish History group (ME3140 - ME3159, ME3301 -ME3389, MO3060 - MO3079, MO3160 - MO3179, MO3260 - MO3279, MO3360 - MO3379, MO3460 -MO3479, MO3560 - MO3579, MO3760 - MO3779) and not more than 120 credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff.

A student may, with permission of the Honours Adviser, substitute 30 credits in Third or Fourth Year for 3000-level or 4000-level credits in another School.
MA (Hons) History: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: CL4999, HI4997 - HI4999 AND
CL4999 Dissertation (Short) in Ancient History, Ancient History & Archaeology, or Classical Studies 30
HI4997 Recording the Past 30
HI4998 Honours Project in History 30
HI4999 Honours Dissertation in History 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4701 - ME4889 (excluding ME4794 - ME4797), MO4801 - MO4905 AND
ME4714 Rebellion, Reform and Society: The Reign of Henry III of England 60
ME4750 Conflict and Cohabitation: Northern Britain c.550 芒鈧��� 750 60
ME4752 Edward I and Robert Bruce: Kings, Nobles and Communities in the British Isles 1274-1329 60
ME4757 Monks and Nuns, Saints and Nobles: Germany in the High Middle Ages 60
ME4758 Gendered Lives: Men and Women in the Later Middle Ages 60
ME4806 The Age of Charlemagne c. 750 - 830 60
ME4807 The Early Mendicants: Francis, Clare and Dominic (c. 1180 - c. 1270) 60
ME4813 The Merovingian World 60
ME4815 France from Philip Augustus to Philip the Fair, c.1180-1315 60
ME4816 The Western Just War Tradition: Ethics, Laws, and Practices of War from Antiquity to the Renaissance 60
ME4852 From Leo VI to Basil II: Byzantium in the Tenth Century 60
ME4855 Crusaders, Mongols and Mamluks: West and East in the Mid-Thirteenth Century 60
ME4856 From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire 60
ME4857 The Mongol Empire and the Islamic World 60
MO4806 Britain and the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) 60
MO4807 Mary, Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland 60
MO4808 Class or Nation? Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Scotland 60
MO4809 Law and Society in Scotland and its Empire, 1707-1914 60
MO4810 Approaches to the American Century 60
MO4850 Britain and Iran in the Modern Era 60
MO4853 Under a Bright Red Star: Iranian Marxism in the 20th Century 60
MO4854 Equality, Institutions and the Development of the Modern State 60
MO4855 Law and Society in Scotland and its Empire, 1707-1914 60
MO4856 The Iranian Revolution and the Genesis of the Islamic Republic, 1977-1981 60
MO4857 Ottoman Cultural History, 1450-1800 60
MO4903 Blood, Glory, Judgement: Early Modern Catholicism 60
MO4912 French Absolutism: Richelieu to Louis XIV 60
MO4932 Russians Making History (1755 - 2000) 60
MO4936 Bismarck: Biography - Politics - Mythology 60
MO4937 Charles Darwin and the Politics of Progress 60
MO4939 Civil War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1936 - 1959 60
MO4949 Modern India: From Empire to Republic (1917 - 1950) 60
MO4951 Food for Midas: The Global History of Money 60
MO4952 The Kennedy Years 60
MO4959 British Cinema History (1920 - 1960) 60
MO4962 France and Africa in the Twentieth-Century: Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism, Post-Colonialism 60
MO4965 Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in Twentieth-Century Europe 60
MO4967 Elizabethan England: Politics, Religion, and Personalities (1558 - 1603) 60
MO4968 Curiosity, Empire and Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe 60
MO4970 Revolutions and Empires (1776 - 1848) 60
MO4971 From City to Home: Spatial Histories of Modern East and Southeast Asia 60
MO4972 Understanding Resistance and Protest in Modern India (c.19th - 21st centuries) 60
MO4973 Twentieth-Century Germany: A Sense of Place 60
MO4975 Print, Progress and Public Opinion. Towards a New History of Print Culture in Early Modern Europe 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: AA4001-AA4989, AN4103 - AN4998, ME3001 - ME3689, MO3001 - MO3795 AND
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
AN4338 Women's Lives in the Ancient Mediterranean 30
AN4339 Land, Power, and the end of Antiquity 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3206 Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3223 The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
ME3232 Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3240 Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
ME3241 Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
ME3242 'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 30
ME3243 Orkneyinga Saga: Text and Context in the Medieval North Atlantic 30
ME3244 Serfdom and Slavery in the Middle Ages 30
ME3245 Invasion and Civil War: Remembering Conflict in Britain and Ireland in the Long Twelfth Century 30
ME3302 Survival and Stability: the Foundations of the Stewart Dynasty, 1371-1460 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Scotland Begins: Iona, D脙隆l Riata and the Picts 30
ME3309 Medieval 58吃瓜 30
ME3312 Kings and Rebels: The British Isles in the Age of Richard II 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
ME3314 Times of Trouble: Civil Conflicts in the Later Fifteenth-Century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
ME3407 Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law and Lordship 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3430 The Papal Monarchy: Popes, Emperors and Kings in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3431 Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3432 The Devil's Brood: Power and Authority in High Medieval England 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 30
ME3602 The Crusades Viewed from the Other Side: Muslim Perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: The Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
ME3618 The Middle East after the Mongols 30
MO3005 The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
MO3029 The Northern Renaissance 30
MO3033 Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
MO3038 War and the State in the Era of the Military Revolution (1550 - 1730) 30
MO3040 From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c.1500 - c.1800) 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
MO3048 Witches and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3054 Walking Early Modern Europe 30
MO3055 The History of History in East Asia 30
MO3056 The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3057 The Age of Atlantic Revolutions 30
MO3058 Religious Diversity in the Reformation Era: Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Rite Christians 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in Early Modern Scotland 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 30
MO3082 Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Early Modern Middle East 30
MO3110 Slavery and Capitalism in the United States 30
MO3113 Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the Age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3214 The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715-1789) 30
MO3217 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3220 The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3223 Early Colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
MO3224 States at Sea? Colonialism, Commerce and Culture in the Eighteenth-century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707 - c.1843 30
MO3301 Holocaust and Denial in Europe 30
MO3302 Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
MO3314 History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
MO3318 1848: Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
MO3320 Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
MO3321 Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3328 Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
MO3329 The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3335 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath (1873 - 1952) 30
MO3336 Mediterranean Colonialism: Colonisers and Colonised in France, Spain, Italy and North Africa 1890s - 1950s 30
MO3337 China's Revolutions (1850 - 1989) 30
MO3338 Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3346 Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1799) 30
MO3350 The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
MO3351 Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
MO3352 Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
MO3353 The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3356 Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3358 Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 30
MO3359 The United States in the Cold War and the Cold War in the United States 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3388 The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialisation and Globalisation 30
MO3389 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700芒鈧���1922 30
MO3391 Documentary Film and History 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788-1914 30
MO3393 The Formation of the Global South and Global North 30
MO3404 Britain in the Era of the Great War 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
MO3410 The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
MO3422 The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
MO3423 Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
MO3424 De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
MO3425 Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
MO3426 War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3427 Russian Imperialism in the 20th and 21st Centuries 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of Everyday Life 30
MO3502 War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3516 Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
MO3520 History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 30
MO3523 Postcolonial Europe: Empire and its Legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
MO3524 Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 30
MO3581 From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
MO3583 From Allied Invasion to Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
MO3584 British roads to socialism? Left-wing political thought in Britain since 1945 30
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4009 Petra and the Nabataeans: Classicism in the Desert 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ID4002, HI4101 and HI4996
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
HI4101 Communication in History 15
HI4996 Presenting the Past 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Access to HI4999 requires the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee.

ID4002 must be taken together with HI4101. This option requires the permission of the Director of Teaching.

From 2023-24 Honours students on a History pathway who choose a combination of ME and MO modules must complete 60 credits from both areas in Junior Honours, and a minimum of 30 credits from either area in Senior Honours. Consequently, History students choosing a ME History Special Subject (60 credits) in fourth year, must choose a 30 credit MO Hons module and vice versa. This does not apply to History students choosing AA or AN modules in the School of Classics.

New History degree regulations (from 2023-24) are as follows -

MA (Honours) History: Fourth Year (from 2023-24):

30 credits from CL4999 or HI4997-HI4999 AND

60 credits from Module List ME4701-ME4889, (excluding ME4794-ME4797), MO4801-MO4905 AND 30 credits from AA4001-AA4989, AN4103-AN4998, ME3001-ME3689, MO3001-MO3795 (See Further Requirements) OR

Between 0-30 credits from ID4002 and HI4101, HI4996

Further requirements:

Choose 120 credits in academic year.

History Honours students choosing a combination of Medieval and Modern History modules (ME and MO) must complete 60 credits from both subject areas in Junior Honours and a minimum of 30 credits from each in Senior Honours (this applies to ME and MO coded Honours modules and not the History dissertation or equivalent).

A Single Honours student choosing a 60-credit year-long special subject in Medieval (ME) History MUST choose a 30-credit 3000-level module in Modern (MO) History; a Single Honours student choosing a 60-credit special subject in Modern (MO) History must choose a 30-credit 3000-level module in Medieval (ME) History.

This does not apply to History students choosing AA and AN coded Classics modules in conjunction with ME or MO options.

Access to HI4999 requires the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee.

ID4002 must be taken together with HI4101. This option requires the permission of the Director of Teaching.

HI4996 is a prerequisite for HI4997. Access to HI4997 requires the permission of the Director of Teaching and module coordinator.

A student may, with permission of the Honours Adviser, substitute 30 credits in Third or Fourth Year for 3000-level or 4000-level credits in another School.

The above will not be introduced until 2023-24. It will have NO impact on the options you can choose 2022-23.

A student may, with permission of the Honours Adviser, substitute 30 credits in Third or Fourth Year for 3000-level or 4000-level credits in another School.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 58吃瓜 School in the Learning Agreement (see ).