HI 1311: State, Nation and Nationalism

This course provides a thematic survey of European and world history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Its main focus is on political, cultural and intellectual history. It introduces students to some of the main theoretical approaches to the study of states, nations and nationalism, that is to the political institutions known as states, to the culturally defined communities we know as nations, and to the doctrines and political movements we call nationalism. Students engage with both an overview of developments and with case studies of particular states, nations and nationalisms.

HI 2870: History of Women in Britain 1780 – 1980

This course introduces students to aspects of women's lives and gender relations in Britain in the period 1780-1980. It helps students to identify and discuss interpretations of changes in women's lives in the period 1780-1980, and evaluate them historically. It encourages students to further their understanding of women's and gender history through critical reading and discussion and through the use of a variety of primary source materials, including film, fiction and personal testimonies. And it gives students experience of explaining material and ideas to others through academic writing and a variety of types of seminar presentation.

HI 3080: Personal Testimony as History

This course explores oral histories, diaries, letters and autobiographies as source materials for the historian. It introduces students to the strengths, weaknesses and special demands made by these various types of personal testimony. And it engages with the debates among social and cultural historians, popular memory theorists and feminist scholars, concerning the academic uses of autobiographical texts.

MA Research Training: Source Criticism

This course is designed to develop and refine students’ engagement with historical source materials. It introduces students to a range of sources (written, visual and oral) and explores different methods of researching and interpreting them. Students make presentations exploring the sources they are using for their dissertations and explaining their approach to them.