Advanced Seminar modules

These are one-term seminar modules for second and final-year students, covering a diverse range of periods, regions and historical approaches.

The vast majority of such courses are assessed by two 2,500 word coursework essays (rarely by one essay and a 1.5-hour examination).

The modules below are due to run in the 2021/22 academic year:

Please note: This module description is accurate at the time of publication. Amendments may be made prior to the start of the academic year.

• HIST0830    American Borderlands: Land and Power at America’s Margins, c.1763-1900    (Term 1)
• HIST0229    Ancient Anatolia Through Material Culture A    (Term 1)
• HIST0228    Ancient Greek Religion of the Archaic and Classical Period    (Term 1)
• HIST0810    Crime, Policing and Punishment in London, c.1750-1868    (Term 1)
• HIST0773    Culture and Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Latin America    (Term 1)
• HIST0255    Emergence of the State: The History of European Political Thought in the 17th and Early 18th Centuries    (Term 1)
• HIST0301    History that Counts: Methods and Cases in Quantitative History    (Term 1)
• HIST0831    Medieval Secular Women under the Clerical Gaze    (Term 1)
• HIST0221    Slavery in the Classical World    (Term 1) (Description will be updated in late July)
• HIST0500    Society and Politics in Late Imperial Russia    (Term 1)
• HIST0497    The Balkans from Empires to Nation-States A    (Term 1)
• HIST0667    The Contested Country: A History of Hungary, 1790-1990    (Term 1)
• HIST0230    Aristocracy' in Ancient Greece    (Term 1 & 2)
• HIST0790    Cops, Cartels and Cash Crops: the Drug Trade in the Americas, 1900 to the Present     (Term 1 & 2)
• HIST0808    Gothic: From High Culture to Subculture    (Term 1 & 2)
• HIST0284    Intelligent Design? Science, Religion and Material Culture 1500-1830    (Term 1 & 2)
• HIST0801    New Histories of Liberalism    (Term 1 & 2)
• HIST0269    Penal Era or Golden Age?: Ireland 1689-1801    (Term 1 & 2)
• HIST0829    Roman Religion: Belief, Culture and Politics    (Term 1 & 2)
• HIST0842    The Holocaust: new historical approaches    (Term 1 & 2)
• HIST0825    The Origins and Development of the Plantation System    (Term 1 & 2)
• HIST0262    Thinking Postcolonially: Race and Empire in Twentieth Century Britain    (Term 1 & 2)
• HIST0843    Adolescence in Medieval Europe    (Term 2) (Description will be updated in late July)
• HIST0660    Ancient Middle Eastern Religion    (Term 2)
• HIST0004    Between Politics and Culture: German Ideas 1890 - 1970    (Term 2)
• HIST0024    Broadcasting Modernity: A Global History of Radio and Television in the Twentieth Century    (Term 2)
• HIST00784    Czechoslovakia in the Age of Extremes, 1918-1993    (Term 2)
• HIST0710    Gender and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe    (Term 2)
• HIST0218    History of Asian Medicine    (Term 2)
• HIST0272    Law's Empire: Legal Cultures in the British Colonial World    (Term 2)
• HIST0309    Race Ethnicity & the Other in Africa    (Term 2) (Description will be updated in late July)
• HIST0244    Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Modern Europe    (Term 2)
• HIST0256    State, Sovereignty and Liberty: The History of European Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century    (Term 2)
• HIST0498    The Age of Extremes in the Balkans    (Term 2)
• HIST0295    U.S. Internationalism, 1865-1920    (Term 2)