Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2026/27

Please note: Programme and unit information may change as the relevant academic field develops. We may also make changes to the structure of programmes and assessments to improve the student experience.

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Level QCA-3
Level C/4
Level I/5
Level H/6
Level M/7
Level D/8
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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
American Dreamers: Socialism in the United States, 1776 to today HIST20150 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
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 HIST30142 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Bristol and the Caribbean HIST20165 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Capitalism HIST30115 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Crusading Cultures HIST20133 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Dark Pasts: Modern Histories of Night in Britain and North America HIST30145 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Decolonisation and the Left in Southeast Asia HIST20159 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Disease, Deviance and Disability in Modern Medicine HIST20134 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Dissertation HISTM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Honours/6 Not open E TB-4
Environment and History HISTM0078 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Explorations in Early Modern History HISTM0081 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Gender in the Modern World HIST10069 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Global Britons: Internationalism and Its Discontents, 1919-2019 HIST20162 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Global Empires HIST30122 20 Honours/6 Not open D TB-2
Good Omens, Bad Prophets, Changing Worlds: Society and Foreknowledge in the Middle Ages to c.1320 HIST20168 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Greed Is Good: Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain and America HIST30144 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Health on the Colour Line: Race and Medicine in America HIST30149 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Histories of the Polar Regions HIST30147 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Hong Kong and the World HIST20158 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Horrible Histories And All That HIST30119 20 Honours/6 Not open D TB-2
Indians on the Move: From Indenture to Independence HIST30151 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses HIST30153 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Making History Public HISTM2016 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Medicine, magic and sex in early modern England and its colonies HIST30141 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Memory HIST30113 20 Honours/6 Not open C TB-1
Mental Health in Modern Britain, 1959-present HIST20160 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Merchants, Mystics and the Marginalised: Societies in Motion in Early Modern South Asia HIST30154 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Millennial Britain HIST30125 20 Honours/6 Not open D 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 Culture in the Age of Empires HIST30152 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Practice-Based Dissertation (History) HIST30129 40 Honours/6 Not open B,E TB-4
Practice-based dissertation HISTM0106 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Race HIST30117 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Race in America HISTM0084 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Rage against the machine: technology and anti-technology in modern Britain HIST30150 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Raiders to Rulers: Vikings, Normans, and the Making of Europe HIST20163 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Rebels, Runaways, and Revolutionaries: Agency and Slavery in the United States. HIST20166 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Red Power: American Indian activism since 1944 HIST30146 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Researching and Writing History HISTM0055 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Intermediate/5 Not open A TB-1
Sexualities HIST30118 20 Honours/6 Not open C TB-1
Slavery HIST10046 20 Certificate/4 Not open E TB-2
Smugglers’ City HIST20155 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Sustainability HIST30159 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Teenage Kicks: Youth and subcultures in Britain since 1918 HIST30143 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
The Age of Revolutions in Global Perspective c.1776-1848 HIST20164 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
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 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 HIST20157 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
The Making of Contemporary Britain (1918-2008) HIST20114 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
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 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
The Tudor World HIST20119 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Under the Covers: Sex and Modern British Print Culture HIST20156 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Villains: Convicts, Crime and Criminals in Britain and the Colonies HIST20149 40 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
War and Society HIST10045 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
War, Plague, and Rebellion: England in the Fourteenth Century HIST30156 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4