Module manager: Professor Kevin Linch
Email: K.B.Linch@Leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module presents an opportunity to explore the history of Britain through a diverse range of historiographical lenses and methodological approaches. It provides an opening into the rich history of the places, people, and cultures that have made up Britain from the medieval era to the modern day. Drawing upon the skills developed in the first semester, you will explore overarching 'national narratives', considering who they include and exclude, and why.
This module aims to:
- introduce you to a range of cross-chronological methodological approaches to histories of diverse groups and individuals;
- introduce you to a range of digital learning resources and transferable digital skills;
- equip you with concepts, theories, and critical vocabulary that will support your analysis and interpretation;
- develop critical and ethical awareness around embodied difference, identity politics, social, political and economic contexts.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Engage with, apply and evaluate selected concepts from historical theory and understand their relevance to primary sources.
2. Gather information from a range of historical sources, analyse and interpret this data to aid understanding of the history of Britain from the medieval period through to the modern day.
3. Apply communication skills to communicate how historical approaches and methodologies can be applied to a cross-chronological range of primary sources.
Skills learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. The ability to build positive working relationships with members of a team to enable successful project collaboration.
5. To question historical norms and practices and reflect on one’s own values, perceptions and actions.
6. Ability to find, evaluate, organise and share information across a variety of formats and media, ensuring the reliability and integrity both of the sources that you use and of the ideas that they help you to generate.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or
equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| seminars | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| Practicals | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Independent online learning hours | 10 | ||
| Private study hours | 170 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
You will be asked to reflect on your group's skills and experiences as part of training within the module on effective groupwork. Additionally, during seminars and group meetings with your tutor you will develop a plan for your presentation, which will provide opportunities to offer advice and comment on your ideas and progress.
Seminar discussions will also continually enable you to articulate and develop questions, ideas, and arguments, and to benefit from the feedback from other students and the tutor.
Feedback (written and oral) on summative work also has a key formative function.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Group Presentation | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
The resit for the group presentation will be a five-minute recorded individual presentation
Check the module area in Minerva for your reading list
Last updated: 26/09/2025
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