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MA in Modern History

Programme Code: TMHYMH

Department: International History

For students starting this programme of study in 2026/27

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students take courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Course code, title (unit value)

Year 1

Paper 1

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)

EH468 A Long Road to Capitalism? The Medieval Origins of Modern Economies (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

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)

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

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

SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)

Paper 2

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

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

EH469 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (0.5)

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)

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)

HY471 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (1.0)

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

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

HY4B3W Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5)

HY4B7 Asian Borderlands (1.0)

HY4C1 Fighting and Experiencing the Greater War c. 1912-23 (1.0)

HY4C2 Defining the Nation: South Asian History within a Global Perspective (1.0)

HY4C4 Crises and Reforms in Modern History (1.0)

HY4C5 Britain's Secret State: Intelligence and Power since 1900 (1.0)

HY4C6 Women of the World Unite: Transnational Feminisms and Decolonisation in the long Twentieth Century (1.0)

HY4C7 Interwar Internationalism Reconsidered (1.0)

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:

AN420 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN424 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN447 China in Comparative Perspective (1.0) #

AN451 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5)

AN467 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) #

AN469 The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5)

AN477 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) #

AN488 Gender, Sexuality and Kinship (0.5)

AN489 Body and Senses (0.5)

AN490 Anthropology and Religion (0.5)

AN492 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN4A1 Understanding Religion in the Contemporary World (0.5) #

EU432 The Philosophy of Europe (0.5)

EU447 Democracy, Ideology and the European State (0.5)

GI422 Transnational Sexual Politics (1.0)

PH416 Philosophy, Morals and Politics (1.0) #

SO4D3 Culture and Society (0.5)

SO4D4 Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (0.5)

Language courses

Papers 1 & 2 options list

Paper 4

HY490 MA in Modern History Dissertation (1.0)

Language courses

LN130 French Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN230 French Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN330 French Language and Society 5 (mastery) (1.0) #

LN110 German Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN210 German Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN140 Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced) (1.0) #

LN240 Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) (1.0) #

LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (1.0) # (suspended 2026/27)

LN100 Russian Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN200 Russian Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN120 Spanish Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN220 Spanish Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN320 Spanish Language and Society 5 (mastery) (1.0) #

Papers 1 & 2 options list

EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)

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

EH468 A Long Road to Capitalism? The Medieval Origins of Modern Economies (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

EH469 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (0.5)

EU476 Emotions and Memory in European Politics (0.5)

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

GV4G7 Marx and Marxism (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)

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

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)

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

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)

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

HY471 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (1.0)

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

HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America (1.0)

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

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

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

HY4B3W Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5)

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

HY4B7 Asian Borderlands (1.0)

HY4C1 Fighting and Experiencing the Greater War c. 1912-23 (1.0)

HY4C2 Defining the Nation: South Asian History within a Global Perspective (1.0)

HY4C4 Crises and Reforms in Modern History (1.0)

HY4C5 Britain's Secret State: Intelligence and Power since 1900 (1.0)

HY4C6 Women of the World Unite: Transnational Feminisms and Decolonisation in the long Twentieth Century (1.0)

HY4C7 Interwar Internationalism Reconsidered (1.0)

MC436 Mediating the Past (0.5) #

SO407 Politics and Society (1.0)

SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)

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

Footnotes

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Note for prospective students:
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