Create your own degree pathway and pursue your specialist interests on our flexible master's degrees. Optional modules allow you to focus on a specific historical case study.
Our modules cover a vast geographical area including Britain, Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and South Asia, and explore a range of themes from gender and women’s history, fiscal history, global history, post-colonial history to history of medicine and science.
Master of Research
Optional modules on our MRes programme give you the opportunity to advance your understanding of a particular subject area. You will carry out an in-depth study of relevant sources and of advanced scholarship in the field.
Subjects offered in the past have included: Dante; Medieval women; Byzantine material culture; Arthurian literature; Crusades; Kingship and Queenship in 12th and 13th century France and Manuscript production and collection in England.