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This programme offers a unique opportunity to deepen and develop your knowledge of classical antiquity by combining a substantial research dissertation with research training and taught elements. You may also choose modules from the MA in Antiquity syllabus, which allows for interdisciplinary study of the ancient world.

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Over the last century, air power has proved to be one of the most complex and fascinating forms of military capability. It is full of contradictions and controversies.

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Department of History staff working on early modern history have an interest in a wide variety of aspects of society and culture in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere in Europe in the period 1550-1750. For example, knowledge, religion and power in the Italian states (Dr Silvia De Renzi); witchcraft and society (Dr Peter Elmer); social and cultural history of the European Reformation, especially in northern Germany and Scandinavia, and Calvinist emigration (Dr Ole Peter Grell); and Britain and Ireland, on women and gender, and on patronage and finance (Professor Anne Laurence).

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Artistic networks, 1300-1550 is a research group based in the Department of Art History. It includes members of staff working on art produced from the 14th through to the 16th centuries in a diverse group of territories, including Italy, the Low Countries, Spain and Byzantium.

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Within the Department of History, there is a specific research group devoted to the study of criminal justice history: the International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice (ICHCPJ). This Centre aims to promote and facilitate research into criminal justice history around the world and to generate the exchange of ideas between academics, criminal justice practitioners and serving police personnel.

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The Department of History has expertise in the history of medicine in Britain, Ireland and Continental Europe from 1500 to 1900. Dr Deborah Brunton focuses on public health policies at the intersection between urban growth and medicine, Dr Silvia De Renzi on medicine in early modern Italy and the history of legal medicine.

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The Department of History have an Empire and Postcolonial Research Group, which links to the cross-faculty Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies. Areas of particular interest include the British Empire, colonial India, links between the West and the postcolonial world, empire in Asia port cities, and heritage.

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The Book History and Bibliography Research Group have made major contributions to the subject internationally. Members have produced numerous publications in authorship studies, printing, publishing, reading, bibliography and textual editing.

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The Department of Classical Studies has distinctive expertise in the material culture of the ancient world. Staff research in this area covers a wide selection of topics, including votive offerings from ancient sanctuaries, the archaeology of Etruscan Italy, and Roman funerary monuments.

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The combination of staff expertise on recent religious history and on contemporary religion in the Religious Studies Department offers exciting possibilities for linking new research on historical topics to the investigation of problems and issues in present-day religion. For example, investigation of Protestant-Catholic conflict in the past could be linked to the exploration of residual tensions in contemporary Northern Ireland; or work on the historical development of the modern Hindu tradition in Britain and/or India could inform understanding of its current characteristics.

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