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Master of Arts (Honours) Scottish History


MA (Hons) Scottish History: First year
Code Module name Credits
( Scotland and the English Empire 1070 - 1500 20 AND
( The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20 OR
The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20 OR
Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20 )) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Over the first two years at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.


MA (Hons) Scottish History: Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 20 AND
( * History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20 OR
* Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 20 ) AND
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 at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better in the 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) Scottish History: Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 120 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779, OR
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 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 entry for each individual module above
( View list 60 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779, AND
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 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 entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: AN4100 - AN4133, ME3000 - ME3999, MO3000 - MO3999 )
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
ME3018 Conflict and cooperation: church and monarchy in Britain, 1066-1307 30
Early English Society c.600-850 30
Archaeological Methods 30
The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
The Medieval Castle 30
The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3236 Soldiers and Saints in Late Roman Gaul 30
Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3239 Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Early Medieval West 30
Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
ME3420 Rich and Poor in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3423 Justifying Medieval Warfare 30
ME3425 The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
ME3426 Women and Gender in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3429 England and France at War in the Fourteenth Century 30
The Papal Monarchy: Popes, emperors and kings in the high middle ages 30
Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
The Devil's Brood: English kings and kingship from Henry II to Henry III 30
The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
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
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
ME3905 The Medieval Foundations of Western Legal Traditions 30
Normans, Natives and Norsemen: Scotland c.1050-1250 30
The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3019 The Life of the Mind: Key Texts in European Thought (1512 - 1697) 30
MO3025 Empire and Nation: The Development of Colonial British America 1607 - 1770 30
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
The Northern Renaissance 30
Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
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 - 1800) 30
MO3041 Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
Witches and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3049 Political Thought From Machiavelli to Tocqueville 30
MO3050 The Northern World (1523 - 1725) 30
MO3051 Rethinking the English Reformations 30
MO3052 The Library, a Fragile History 30
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
The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
The Iranian World from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722) 30
The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
MO3110 African Americans in Slavery and Freedom, 1620 - 1865 30
Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715-1789) 30
Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3218 The American Revolution 30
The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3222 French Fancy and Cool Britannia? Franco-British Cultural Relations from Seven Years' War to French Revolution 30
Early colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
MO3224 Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
1848: Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3323 Splendid Isolation or Continental Commitment? Britain and Europe (1814 - 1914) 30
MO3325 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath 1873-1952 (Independent Study) 30
MO3327 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Independent Study) 30
Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3334 Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
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
Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3340 British Industrialisation (1700-1840) 30
MO3341 The United States (1783-1896) 30
MO3342 The French Revolution (1787-1795) 30
MO3343 Business in Great Waters...: Ships and Seafarers, 1700-1914 30
MO3344 Science and Nation-Building in Europe (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3346 Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1815) 30
MO3347 Radical Politics in England 30
MO3348 'Army with a Country'? The Military and Militarism in Prusso-German History (1640 - 1945) 30
MO3349 The American Metropolis 30
The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3355 Colonizing Asia: An Economic Study of Colonialism in Asia and its Consequences 30
Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3357 From Radicalism to Labour: Popular Politics in Scotland, 1707-1914 30
Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3381 French Algeria (1830-1962) 30
Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3386 Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911) 30
The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialization and Globalization 30
Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
MO3419 The French 'Civil Wars' of the Twentieth Century 30
The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3508 America and Vietnam 30
MO3513 Heavenly Decade: The 1960s 30
MO3514 The Life and Times of the Atom Bomb 30
Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 30
Postcolonial Europe: empire and its legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
MO3583 From Second World War to Cold War and Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
MO3909 Disease, Medicine, and the Making of the Modern World, 1500 to Present 30
MO3917 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3956 Nationalism and Language in Central Europe (Evening Degree) 30
MO3957 From the People's War to 'New' Labour: British Politics after the Second World War 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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Choices should be made from different module ranges.

With the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee a student may:
a) Substitute 30 credits in Third or Fourth Year for 3000-level or 4000-level credits in another school.
b) Take 60 credits from the range AN4103-AN4133,ME3000-ME399,MO3000-MO3999.

MA (Hons) Scottish History: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: HI4997, HI4998, HI4999 AND
Honours Dissertation in History 30
Recording the Past 30
Honours Project 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 entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4750-ME4789, MO4801 - MO4849 AND
ME4750 Conflict and Cohabitation: Northern Britain c.550 – 750 60
Robert Bruce and Edward II: Kings, Nobles and Communities in the British Isles (1306 – 1346) 60
ME4756 Historia Brittonum: Inventing the Past in Ninth-Century Wales 60
Monks and Nuns, Saints and Nobles: Germany in the High Middle Ages 60
MO4805 The Scottish Enlightenment 60
Britain and the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) 60
Mary, Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland 60
Class or Nation? Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Scotland 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 entry for each individual module above
( View list 30 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779, OR
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 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 entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module List: AN4100 - AN4133, ME3000 - ME3999, MO3000 - MO3999 )
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
ME3018 Conflict and cooperation: church and monarchy in Britain, 1066-1307 30
Early English Society c.600-850 30
Archaeological Methods 30
The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
The Medieval Castle 30
The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3164 Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th) 30
Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3236 Soldiers and Saints in Late Roman Gaul 30
Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3239 Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Early Medieval West 30
Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
ME3420 Rich and Poor in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3423 Justifying Medieval Warfare 30
ME3425 The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
ME3426 Women and Gender in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3429 England and France at War in the Fourteenth Century 30
The Papal Monarchy: Popes, emperors and kings in the high middle ages 30
Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
The Devil's Brood: English kings and kingship from Henry II to Henry III 30
The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
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
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
ME3905 The Medieval Foundations of Western Legal Traditions 30
Normans, Natives and Norsemen: Scotland c.1050-1250 30
The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3019 The Life of the Mind: Key Texts in European Thought (1512 - 1697) 30
MO3025 Empire and Nation: The Development of Colonial British America 1607 - 1770 30
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
The Northern Renaissance 30
Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
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 - 1800) 30
MO3041 Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
Witches and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3049 Political Thought From Machiavelli to Tocqueville 30
MO3050 The Northern World (1523 - 1725) 30
MO3051 Rethinking the English Reformations 30
MO3052 The Library, a Fragile History 30
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
The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
The Iranian World from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722) 30
The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
MO3110 African Americans in Slavery and Freedom, 1620 - 1865 30
Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715-1789) 30
Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3218 The American Revolution 30
The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3222 French Fancy and Cool Britannia? Franco-British Cultural Relations from Seven Years' War to French Revolution 30
Early colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
MO3224 Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
1848: Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3323 Splendid Isolation or Continental Commitment? Britain and Europe (1814 - 1914) 30
MO3325 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath 1873-1952 (Independent Study) 30
MO3327 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Independent Study) 30
Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3334 Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
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
Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3340 British Industrialisation (1700-1840) 30
MO3341 The United States (1783-1896) 30
MO3342 The French Revolution (1787-1795) 30
MO3343 Business in Great Waters...: Ships and Seafarers, 1700-1914 30
MO3344 Science and Nation-Building in Europe (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3346 Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1815) 30
MO3347 Radical Politics in England 30
MO3348 'Army with a Country'? The Military and Militarism in Prusso-German History (1640 - 1945) 30
MO3349 The American Metropolis 30
The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3355 Colonizing Asia: An Economic Study of Colonialism in Asia and its Consequences 30
Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3357 From Radicalism to Labour: Popular Politics in Scotland, 1707-1914 30
Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3381 French Algeria (1830-1962) 30
Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3386 Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911) 30
The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialization and Globalization 30
Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
MO3419 The French 'Civil Wars' of the Twentieth Century 30
The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3508 America and Vietnam 30
MO3513 Heavenly Decade: The 1960s 30
MO3514 The Life and Times of the Atom Bomb 30
Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 30
Postcolonial Europe: empire and its legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
MO3583 From Second World War to Cold War and Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
MO3909 Disease, Medicine, and the Making of the Modern World, 1500 to Present 30
MO3917 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3956 Nationalism and Language in Central Europe (Evening Degree) 30
MO3957 From the People's War to 'New' Labour: British Politics after the Second World War 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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee a student may:
a) Take HI4999
b) Take credits from the module range AN4103-AN4133, ME3000-ME3999 and MO3000-MO3999 (assuming that the student has not taken more than 30 credits from these modules in Third Year).
c) 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 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).