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Subjects currently include: The Discipline of Military History The Rise of Air Power The Evolution of Modern Sea Power War Media & Propaganda The American Civil War The Second World War The Art of War to the Age of Napoleon All of our modules can be easily accessed and feature exciting ?virtual classrooms? where lectures and seminar discussions are conducted on a weekly basis, making the most of a variety of multi-media formats.

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Conflict Studies explores conflicts and the issues surrounding them Rooted in history and politics, students may focus on specific conflicts and debates, including the importance of military history in understanding the past You will engage in debates surrounding events and issues in the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Middle East conflict, Northern Ireland, post-Cold War conflict, and the post-9/11 security paradigm You will gain an informed understanding of contemporary international security and the historical roots of current crises Taught by internationally-recognised specialists in conflict studies, international relations and military history

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This course provides a general framework within which students can pursue specialist pathways of study in History You will have the opportunity to engage in a cross-disciplinary investigation of modern British history, while developing your research and presentation skills The course will provide you with an understanding of the relationship between key historical ideas and ideologies You will examine social, political and national movements and struggles, from the 18th Century onwards Instruction on research methodologies and techniques Students will benefit from teaching and project supervision from internationally-recognised experts

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The research interests of members of the Department of History in this area range widely, from manufacturers to masculinity. Dr Robin Mackie specialises in business history, and relations between industry and science.

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The History of Mathematics Group conducts internationally recognised work in several areas of the history of modern mathematics, and collaborates with many historians of mathematics in Europe. A long-running interest in celestial mechanics has recently led to an investigation of the network of astronomers in the years around 1900, and an overlapping international project on the role of mathematics and mathematicians in the First World War.

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The Department of History covers a broad range of the political and social history of Britain and Europe from the late middle ages to the present, with additional expertise in imperial history and in heritage studies. It has particular strengths in policing and crime (embedded in a multidisciplinary research group), medical history, and imperial history (supported by the University's multidisciplinary Ferguson Centre for Asian and African Studies).

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Several members of the Department of History contribute to the interfaculty and interdisciplinary Heritage Studies Research Group, which also has links to the Empire and Postcolonial Research Group and the Ferguson Centre. We invite proposals which take a critical approach to understanding the role of heritage and its institutions (museums, heritage sites, trusts and government).

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We have a wide range of expertise on conflict, war and politics in the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries. Annika Mombauer researches German history and especially the history of the First World War, Dr Paul Lawrence has published on the history of nationalism, and Dr Christian Bailey's research has focused on European integration after 1945.

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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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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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