Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2023/24

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
'Fight the Power': Democracy and Protest HIST10068 20 Certificate/4 Not open E TB-2
Africa in Global Perspective HIST20141 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Aftermath: The Wake of War, 1945-1949 HIST30106 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Approaches to History HISTM2009 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Approaching the Past HIST13015 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Asia in Global Perspective HIST20143 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers HIST20036 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject) HIST30078 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Britain's Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914 HIST30120 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Building Modern Ireland, c. 1850-Present HIST20139 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Calamities: People and 'Natural' Disasters in Modern Asia HIST30135 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Capitalism HIST30115 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Constructing the Other HIST30107 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Crusading Cultures HIST20133 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Dark Pasts: Modern Histories of Night in Britain and North America HIST30132 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Decolonisation HIST20116 20 Intermediate/5 Not open C TB-2
Disease, Deviance and Disability in Modern Medicine HIST20134 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Honours/6 Not open E TB-4
Dissertation HISTM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
English Civil Wars, 1625-1662 HISTM0088 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Environment and History HISTM0078 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Explorations in Early Modern History HISTM0081 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Fear and Loathing HIST20117 20 Intermediate/5 Not open C TB-1
Gender in the Modern World HIST10069 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Global Empires HIST30122 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Health and Medicine in African History: Actors, Institutions, Ideas HIST20147 20 Intermediate/5 Not open E TB-2
Historians and the Boundaries of the Body HISTM0104 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
History in Public HIST20089 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Hong Kong and the World HIST20135 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Horrible Histories And All That HIST30119 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Ideology, Poverty and Famines HISTM2017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject) HIST37011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Making History Public HISTM2016 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Memory HIST30113 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Millennial Britain HIST30125 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Modern Girls and New Women HIST20146 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Modern Revolutions HIST10067 20 Certificate/4 Not open B TB-1
Oceans & Globalisation: 1700-1945 HISTM0100 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Once Upon a Crime: Law and Popular Cultures in the Age of Empire HIST30137 20 Honours/6 Not open A TB-1
Outlaws HIST20120 20 Intermediate/5 Not open C TB-1
Picturing the Twentieth Century HIST30114 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Practice-Based Dissertation (History) HIST30129 40 Honours/6 Not open B,E TB-4
Race HIST30117 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) HIST37010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Race in America HISTM0084 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Race, Migration and Diaspora in 19th and 20th Century Britain HIST20136 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Rage against the Machine: Technology and Anti-Technology in Modern Britain HIST30138 20 Honours/6 Not open A TB-1
Rebels, Runaways, and Revolts: Agency, Resistance, and Slavery in the United States HIST20129 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Red Power and Beyond: American Indian activism since 1944 HIST30128 20 Honours/6 Not open A TB-1
Researching and Writing History HISTM0055 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Rewriting Modern Britain HISTM0079 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Sexualities HIST30118 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Slavery HIST10046 20 Certificate/4 Not open E TB-2
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) HIST26024 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Age of Revolutions 1776-1848 in Global Perspective HIST20128 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Age of the Human HIST30103 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The American Century HIST10044 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
The Americas in Global Context HIST20142 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The Apocalypse in Culture and Society (1000-1500) HISTM0032 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The Black Death in England HIST20125 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Early Modern World: Europe and the Wider World HIST10065 20 Certificate/4 Not open A TB-1
The Early Modern World: The British Isles HIST10063 20 Certificate/4 Not open A TB-1
The F Word: Understanding Italian Fascism Then and Now HIST20140 20 Intermediate/5 Not open E TB-2
The Making of Contemporary Britain (1918-2008) HIST20114 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Mass Media in Modern Britain HIST30133 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The Medieval World: Europe and the Wider World HIST10066 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Medieval World: The British Isles HIST10064 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Nature of Britain: Environmental Histories of an Atlantic Island HISTM0103 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The Politics of the Past HIST20144 20 Intermediate/5 Not open D TB-2
The Public Role of the Historian HIST20145 20 Intermediate/5 Not open D TB-2
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages HIST20132 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Under the Covers: Sex and Modern British Print Culture HIST20138 20 Intermediate/5 Not open E TB-2
War and Society HIST10045 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1