Explorations modules
Explorations modules (30 credits) concentrate on a particular topic or theme over a relatively short period of time, and are designed to be a bridge between the autumn term Histories and Contexts and the Special Subject in your third year. The courses are designed to develop your critical skills in reading primary sources and secondary works as well as expanding your understanding of key issues in history.
You attend a weekly two-hour seminar in the spring term; and during the summer will focus on individual or group projects. The seminar element of these modules will be assessed by an exam taken in the assessment period of the summer term (weeks five to seven), and the project element will be assessed by written work handed in at the start of that assessment period (week five).
The following lists highlight some of the Explorations modules we have offered in recent years. Please click on an image or a name to find out more details:
Medieval
- Politics and Culture in the Age of Charlemagne and His Successors
- The Measly Middle Ages? Wretchedness and Relief, 1100-1400
- House, Hearth and Home in Later Medieval England
- Crime and Punishment in the Later Middle Ages
- Chivalry
- Medicine in Medieval Europe
- Dragons, Damsons and Dancing: Popular Culture in Late Medieval England
- The Carolingian World: Conquests, Ideology and a Civilising Process
- The Barbarian Migrations, c.350-550: Politics and Society in the Late Roman West
- Science in the Middle Ages: Doom-saying Stars and Monstrous Races
- Childhood and Adolescence, c.1300-1600
- The Crusades and the Medieval Middle East
- Confraternities and Communities in the Later Middle Ages
Early Modern
- Germany from Reformation to Civil War, 1517-1648
- The European Witch Craze, 1450-1750
- Telescopes and Microscopes
- The British Atlantic World, 1576-1692
- Sickness and Health in Early Modern England
- Missionaries, Merchants and Medicines in Southeast Asia, 1500-1700
- Living in England: 1600-1800
- Revolutions, Scandals and Reforms: British Political Culture, 1688-1832
Modern
- Introduction to Nineteenth Century Iran
- Race, Expansion and War in the Early United States
- European Migration, 1870-2000
- Sugar and Slavery: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the British Caribbean
- The Revolutionary Tradition in Latin America
- Difficult Pasts and Haunted Presents
- From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
- The Politics of Evolution in Britain, c.1844-c.1918
- China: An Economic and Environmental History, 1870-1950
- Knowledge and Empire, c.1760-1965
- Ethnicity and Immigration in Britain and France Since the Late 19th Century
- Travel and Tourism in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Britain
- Uniting the Kingdom: Britishness and the Four Nations, 1707-1832
- British Police and the Democratic Idea Since 1829
- Of Serfs and Slaves: The Emancipation of Servile Labour in the Nineteenth Century
- The 1970s
- The History of Communist China, 1949-2012
- Peter the Great's Russia, 1682-1785
- The Future in Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain