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Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2020/21

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
'The Rise of Political Lying'?: Rhetoric from Churchill to Blair (Level H Special Subject) HIST30048 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Aftermath: The Wake of War, 1945-1949 HIST30106 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
American Empire HIST30043 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
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
Brief Encounters: Love, Labour, and Loneliness in Modern London HIST20099 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
Capitalism HIST30115 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Constructing the 'Other' in Western Europe, c.1000 - 1400 (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39012 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Constructing the Other HIST30107 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Contested Pasts: The Writing of Irish History HISTM0095 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Decolonisation HIST20116 20 Intermediate/5 Not open C TB-2
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Honours/6 Not open E TB-4
Dissertation HISTM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Early and Modern Paganism HIST20121 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
English Civil Wars, 1625-1662 HISTM0088 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Environment and History HISTM0078 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Eugenics: The First Fifty Years (1883-1932) HIST30108 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Explorations in Early Modern History HISTM0081 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Explorations in Early Modern History HISTM0089 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Fear and Loathing HIST20117 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
From Freaks to Superhumans: Disability in the Modern World HIST30109 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
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: Contemporary Enterprise Culture in Britain and America HISTM0070 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Greed is Good: Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain and America HIST30126 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Histories of Extreme Environments HISTM0090 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Histories of Extreme Environments HISTM0082 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
History in Public HIST20089 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
History in the Middle Ages HIST30127 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
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-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 Witchcraft HIST30112 20 Honours/6 Not open 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
Post-Apartheid South Africa HISTM0092 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Post-Apartheid South Africa: Rainbow Nation and Insurgent Citizens HISTM0083 20 Masters/7 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 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 in America HISTM0093 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Red Power and Beyond: American Indian activism since 1944 HIST30128 20 Honours/6 Not open A TB-1
Red Power and Beyond: Post-war American Indian Ideology and Protest HIST30094 20 Honours/6 Not open 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
Saving Strangers HISTM0101 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Sexualities HIST30118 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Slavery HIST10046 20 Certificate/4 Not open 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-2
The American Civil War HIST20123 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Apocalypse in Culture and Society (1000-1500) HISTM0032 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The Early Modern World HIST10043 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
The English Civil Wars HISTM0094 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The History and Legacies of Slavery HISTM0087 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
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 Medieval World HIST10042 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Modern World HIST10048 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
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
War and Society HIST10045 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Wild Things: Humans and other animals in History HIST20115 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Witchcraft (Level H Reflective History) HIST38003 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1

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