Overview
Within this Modern History MA degree delivered by the University of Leeds you can tailor the course to suit your interests, but we also encourage you to develop how you think as a historian: you’ll have the chance to encounter new ways of ‘doing’ modern history, from the study of state archives to popular culture and everyday life. Crucially, we don’t prioritise any one approach so you’ll get to work with historians who ask different kinds of questions, use different kinds of sources and who understand the past in different ways.
key facts
The School of History at Leeds has more than thirty members of staff currently working in the field of Modern History. We have long-standing strengths in British, European, American and colonial history but we also have experts working on East and South-East Asia, India, Africa, Latin America, Australia and the Middle East. Thematically, we also can offer a tremendous range of Modern History. We have specialists in medical history and the history of psychiatry, histories of race and gender, military history, the histories of childhood and the family, histories of protest and resistance, political, transnational and international history.
The MA Modern History enables you to immerse yourself in this diverse scholarly community; besides taught modules, you are encouraged to participate in the School’s research culture by attending research seminars, conferences and workshops. The Leeds Humanitites Research Institute (LHRI) fosters interdisciplinary study and connects students with staff and students outside the School.
The University’s libraries provide some of the best archival and library collections in the country and its Special Collections have a wide range of archival holdings, with particularly extensive collections in political and social history, the history of religion and theology, histories of science, medicine, education, travel and art. Outside Leeds, students have easy access to the British Library at Boston Spa.
Programme Structure
Modules include:
- Dissertation
- Practising Modern History
- Secrecy and Espionage in Early Modern Europe
- Approaches to Contemporary European History
- 'The continuation of war by other means? : Case Studies in Wartime Diplomacy 1931-1945
- Gender and Power in Early Modern Europe
- Medicine and Warfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
- Part-time
- 24 months
- Flexible
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Campus Location
- Leeds, United Kingdom
Disciplines
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General requirements
- A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (Hons) in history, or a degree scheme that includes a significant proportion of history, or a related subject such as politics.
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