With a wide range of optional modules, you can tailor the course to suit your interests, but we also encourage you to develop how you think as a historian: you’ll have the chance to encounter new ways of ‘doing’ modern history, from the study of state archives to popular culture and everyday life. Crucially, we don’t prioritise any one approach so you’ll get to work with historians who ask different kinds of questions, use different kinds of sources and who understand the past in different ways.
Core modules (‘Practicing Modern History’ and ‘Communicating History’) help you understand these different approaches and give you the critical skills to contribute to current historiographical debates. A 15,000-word research dissertation, closely supervised by a leading historian in their field, allows you to apply the knowledge and skills you have gained.
The School of History at Leeds has more than thirty members of staff currently working in the field of Modern History. We have long-standing strengths in British, European, American and colonial history but we also have experts working on East and South-East Asia, India, Africa, Latin America, Australia and the Middle East. Thematically, we also can offer a tremendous range of Modern History. We have specialists in medical history and the history of psychiatry, histories of race and gender, military history, the histories of childhood and the family, histories of protest and resistance, political, transnational and international history.
The MA Modern History enables you to immerse yourself in this diverse scholarly community; besides taught modules, you are encouraged to participate in the School’s research culture by attending research seminars, conferences and workshops.
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIST5015M | Dissertation (MA) | 60 | 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) | |
| HIST5055M | Practising Modern History | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| HIST5170M | Communicating History | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from each basket of option modules:
Basket 1
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIST5020M | Making History: Archive Collaborations | 30 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| HIST5180M | Latin America and the Global Cold War | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| HIST5750M | Social Histories of South Africa | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST5830M | Stalinist Terror | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST5880M | Approaches to the History of Health and Medicine | 30 | Not running in 202425 |
Basket 2
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIST5022M | Global Health: Decolonising Histories, Politics and Practice | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST5720M | Revolution and Rebirth: Eastern Europe and the USSR, 1985-99 | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST5891M | Histories of Migration | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST5910M | The Idea of Black Culture | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
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