Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2017/18

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
'The Rise of Political Lying'?: Rhetoric from Churchill to Blair (Level H Special Subject) HIST30048 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
A Body of Evidence: Forensic Medicine in Britain (Level I Special Field) HIST20043 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
After Empire (Level I Special Field) HIST20081 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
American Empire HIST30043 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
American Slavery: Black Bodies, Voices and Exploitation in the United States (Level C Special Topic) HIST10039 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Approaches to History HISTM2009 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Approaching the Past HIST13015 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers HIST20036 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Big City Lights: Comparative Urban History HISTM0069 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Big City Lights: Comparative Urban History (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30074 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Borderlands: People and Places at the Periphery (Reflective History Unit) HIST30079 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Bringing History (and Historians) Down to Earth (Level H Reflective History) HIST38018 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject) HIST30078 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Britain's Cold War (Level C Special Topic) HIST14018 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Britain's Migrant and Diasporic Communities 1851-1971 (Level I Special Field) HIST20092 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Cacophonous City, Silent Lives: Life in Victorian London HIST30049 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Calamities: Natural and Unnatural Disasters in the Modern World (Level I Special Field) HIST20076 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Capitalism (Level H Reflective History) HIST30073 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Cataclysm and Consolidation: The Foundations of the Islamic World (c.600-1258) (Level I Special Field) HIST20093 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
China and the World in the Twentieth Century (Level C Special Topic) HIST10030 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Colonial Radicals (Level C Special Topic) HIST10041 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Constructing the 'Other' in Western Europe, c.1000 - 1400 (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0045 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Constructing the 'Other' in Western Europe, c.1000 - 1400 (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39012 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Crime and Punishment (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20046 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Dealing with Defeat: the English and the Norman Conquest, since 1066 (Level H Reflective History) HIST30088 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Death, Doctors and Disease (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0046 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Death, Doctors and Disease (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30025 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field) HIST26008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Describing Difference: Race, Culture and Ethnicity (Level H Reflective History) HIST38010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Discovering America (Level H Reflective History) HIST38016 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Dissertation HISTM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Documentary, Society and Conflict in Twentieth Century Ireland HIST30045 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Drink and Disorder in Early Modern England (Level C Special Topic) HIST10017 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Drink: a History (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20047 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Eat, Sleep, Pray, Repeat - Religious Lifestyles in the Middle Ages (Level C Special Topic) HIST10040 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Enlightenment Europe (Level C Special Topic) HIST14005 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Eugenics: The First Fifty Years (1883-1932) (Level H Reflective History) HIST30084 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Europe's Age of Revolutions (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20098 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Europe: A Fractal History 1945-1989 (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39003 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Europe: A Fractal History 1945-1989 (Level M Lecture Response) HISTM0065 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Expectations of the End (Level C Special Topic) HIST14007 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Filming the Past HIST30021 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Food: a Global History (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0048 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Food: a Global History (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30027 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
From Washington to Waco: Explorations in Twentieth-century Religion and History (Level I Special Field) HIST20087 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0049 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30028 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Global Cities HISTM0061 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Global Cities (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30034 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Greed is Good: Contemporary Enterprise Culture in Britain and America HISTM0070 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Greed is Good: Contemporary Enterprise Culture in Britain and America (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30083 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
History Outside The Box (Level H Reflective History) HIST30089 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
History in Public HIST20089 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
History in the Middle Ages (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0051 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
History in the Middle Ages (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30031 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
History through Literature in Early Modern Europe HIST30022 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
History, Law and Memory: The Holocaust on Trial (Level H Reflective History) HIST38013 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Holocaust Landscapes (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0058 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39009 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Ideology, Poverty and Famines HISTM2017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Introduction to Early Modern History HIST13012 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-2
Introduction to Medieval History HIST13011 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-1
Introduction to the History of the British Empire: Rise, Fall and Legacies HIST13014 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-1
Keeping the Red Flag Flying? Labour Party Thought and Practice, 1945-83. (Level C Special Topic) HIST14028 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject) HIST37011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Leisure Landscapes of Modern Britain (Level H Special Subject) HIST30077 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Lives and Letters (Level H Special Subject) HIST30075 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Making History Public HISTM2016 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Marvels and Monsters (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20049 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Medieval English Lifestyles (Lecture Response Unit) HIST20028 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Modern Girls and New Women (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20079 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Napoleon (Level I Special Field) HIST26003 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Pirates (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0053 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Pirates (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30032 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Plague, Politics and Society: England 1348-1400 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14021 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Political Culture and Communication in Britain, 1867-1939 (Level I Special Field) HIST26015 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Politics and Society in Contemporary Britain (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25007 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Postcolonial Africa: Politics, Society and Culture (Level I Special Field) HIST26027 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Poverty and Famines in Historical Perspective (Level H Reflective History) HIST38006 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Propaganda (Level H Reflective History) HIST38020 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) HIST37010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Radicalism and Class in Britain 1760-1850 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37004 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Repressed or Risque?: Victorian Sex and Sexuality (Level H Special Subject) HIST30024 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Researching and Writing History HISTM0055 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Revels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20021 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Revolution and Theory: British Political Thought 1603-1689 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14001 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Rome after Rome HIST10023 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Saving Strangers: NGOs and Humanitarianism Since 1945 (Level I Special Field) HIST20095 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Science and the Supernatural HIST30044 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Sixties America and its Aftermath (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20052 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Slavery and Emancipation in the Atlantic World 1450-1870 HISTM0071 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Slavery and Emancipation in the Atlantic World 1450-1870 (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30087 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25003 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Social Change in Modern India (Level I Lecture Response) HIST20096 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) HIST26024 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Special Field Project HIST23008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Special Topic Project HIST13003 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Strangers in the Land: Making America and Becoming American (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25006 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The American Civil War (Level C Special Topic) HIST14015 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The American West: An Environmental History (Level I Special Field) HIST26004 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Apocalypse in Culture and Society (1000-1500) HISTM0032 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The History of Photography/The Photography of History (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20086 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The Intellectual Culture of the Twelfth Century (Level H Special Subject) HIST37001 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
The Norman Conquest (Level I Special Field) HIST20085 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field) HIST26010 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The World of Byzantium (c.500-1100) (Level H Special Subject) HIST30085 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Travels in Space and Time 1850-Present (Level I Special Field) HIST20097 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Tudor Britain HISTM0072 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Tudor Britain (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30090 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Voices of the People HISTM0073 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Voices of the People (Level H Lecture Response) HIST30086 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
War and Society HIST20035 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Wild Things: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern World HIST10021 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Witchcraft (Level H Reflective History) HIST38003 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2