Year 1

Paper 1

Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)

EH457 Living Standards since the Industrial Revolution: The British experience c.1750-2000 (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

EH482 The Origins of the World Economy: Europe and Asia, 1000-1800 (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)

GV4F5 Advanced Study of Key Political Thinkers (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

GV4G7 Marx and Marxism (0.5)

HY424 The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe (1.0)

HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

HY469 Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past (1.0)

HY478 Genesis of the Modern World: Europe, China & India, 1550-1840 (1.0)

HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America (1.0)

HY484L Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

HY484M Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

HY486 The Anti-Slave-Trade Atlantic World, c. 1807-1870 (1.0)

HY489 China and the External World, 1644-1839 (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY4A7 Islam, Power and Culture in Mughal India (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

HY4B4 Maritime Asia in Transition, 1405-1839 (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

HY4B5 Queer Early Modernities (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)

Paper 2

Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

EH429 History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (0.5)

EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)

EU476 Emotions and Memory in European Politics (0.5)

HY400 Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003 (1.0) #

HY411 European Integration in the Twentieth Century (1.0) #

HY422 Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89 (1.0)

HY429 Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War and Beyond, 1939-2003 (1.0)

HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

HY434 The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe 1917-1990 (1.0) (withdrawn 2023/24)

HY435 Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

HY436 Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa (1.0)

HY440 The Iranian Revolution (1.0)

HY444 Latin America in the Cold War (1.0)

HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 (1.0) #

HY463 The Roots, Origins and Dynamics of the Cold War, 1917-1962 (1.0)

HY465 The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict (1.0) # (suspended 2026/27)

HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY4A5 Women as Weapons: The Conservative Political Tradition in the Cold War (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

HY4A8 Asian Borderlands (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY4A9L China and the United States Since 1949 (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

HY4A9M China and the United States Since 1949 (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

HY4B1 The Vietnam Wars, 1930-75: Regional and International Perspectives (1.0)

HY4B2 The Afterlives of Empires in the Neo-Colonial Caribbean (0.5)

HY4B6 German Transformations since 1990 (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MC436 Mediating the Past (0.5) #

SO407 Politics and Society (1.0)

SO427 Modern Social Thought (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

Paper 3

Any course(s) to the value of 1.0 unit(s) listed under Papers 1 and 2 AND not previously selected:

AN402 The Anthropology of Religion (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)

AN404 Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography (1.0)

AN405 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)

AN451 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5)

AN475 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)

EU432 The Philosophy of Europe (0.5)

EU447 Democracy, Ideology and the European State (0.5)

GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)

GI422 Transnational Sexual Politics (1.0)

PH416 Philosophy, Morals and Politics (1.0) #

SO434 Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)

Language courses

Papers 1 & 2 options list

Paper 4

HY490 MA in Modern History Dissertation (1.0)