History

Draw on the research and expertise of our academics in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and develop the analytical and critical-thinking skills that are vital across a range of careers.

Our History MA will give you a breadth of understanding and insight across a variety of eras and spaces.

For example:

• Medical History
• Ideas, Ideologies and cultural transformations
• Conflict
• Oral and Public History

Choose from modules based on themes such as the social or cultural, the political, or the economic.

We have subdiscipline expertise and course content in areas such as environmental history and digital humanities.

Uniquely, you'll also have access to local archives and resources, engaging directly with our collections of primary source material.

We also offer a wide geographical and periodical range: from the pre-historic to the modern, and from the local histories of the North East of Britain to global histories of Europe, Asia, the Americas or Australasia.

What you'll learn

Equip yourself with the key skills of an Historian. Learn to engage with a variety of sources and topics, developing a range of skills in areas such as:

• digital technologies
• oral history collection and analysis
• archival research and data collection
• analysis
• presentation

Understand the practice of history at Postgraduate level through a set of structured modules, then tailor the course to your areas of interest through a choice of four optional modules.

You can even take modules from outside the programme. Modules from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, or an independent study project in an area of particular interest to you are also available.