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Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2022/23

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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
American Dreamers: Radicalism in the United States from 1776 to the Present HIST30131 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
An Unruly History of England, c. 1381-1688 HISTM0102 20 Masters/7 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
Black Lives Matter: The African American Freedom Struggle (1945-Present) HIST30095 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
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
Capitalism HIST30115 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
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 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
Everyday Life in Tudor and Stuart England HIST20100 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Explorations in Early Modern History HISTM0081 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Fear and Loathing HIST20117 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Gender in the Modern World HIST10069 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Global Development HIST20126 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Global Empires HIST30122 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Global History HIST20112 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Greed is Good: Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain and America HIST30126 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Historians and the Boundaries of the Body HISTM0104 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Histories of the Polar Regions HIST30102 20 Honours/6 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
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37016 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
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 Revolutions HIST10067 20 Certificate/4 Not open B TB-1
Oceans & Globalisation: 1700-1945 HISTM0100 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Outlaws HIST20120 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Picturing the Twentieth Century HIST30114 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Political Culture and Communication in Britain, 1867-1939 (Level I Special Field) HIST26015 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Practice-Based Dissertation (History) HIST30129 40 Honours/6 Not open B,E TB-4
Progress or Peril? The History of Science, Technology and Medicine HIST20113 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Race HIST30117 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Race and Health in America HIST30099 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
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
Remembering Transatlantic Enslavement HIST20122 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
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
Teenage Kicks: Youth and Subcultures in Britain since 1918 HIST30097 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
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 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 European Fascism Then and Now HIST20137 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Italian Renaissance HIST30110 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
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 D TB-2
The Nature of Britain: Environmental Histories of an Atlantic Island HISTM0103 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The Norman Conquest HIST20127 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field) HIST26010 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Tudor World HIST20119 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
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
Wild Things: Humans and other animals in History HIST20115 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2

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