History (Global History)

Entry requirements

You will need an Honours degree, normally in any humanities or social science discipline, such as History, Politics, Cultural Studies, or Literature, and normally of an upper second-class standard.

Months of entry

September

Course content

The aim of this course is to put something very big under the microscope.

Our specialist pathway in Global History expands the scale historians normally operate at and presents you with an opportunity to think with growing confidence and imagination about your world, its origins, complexities and continuous transformations.

You'll learn the latest skills, concepts and approaches to the subject across a broad geographical and chronological scope. Global historians examine how global forces and connections have long shaped our societies and cultures. You'll share in the imaginative challenges and intellectual vistas that this exciting new field of history opens up.

From these expansive historical perspectives you will be invited to choose your own specialist research topic, culminating in a supervised 12,000-word dissertation.

Research in the Department spans the medieval to the modern, including topics such as social movements in Brazil to environmental change in China, the Ottoman Empire, medieval and early modern Iran to imperial formations in Ireland and cultural and economic change in the US.

This research expertise is evident in our teaching within our programmes, drawing on the diverse regional and chronological expertise available in the Department of History.