Members of staff at UCL are actively involved in research-led teaching on contemporary and modern Britain across a range of fields.
Several departments offer undergraduate and postgraduate modules relevant to Britain, including modern history, contemporary politics, material culture, anthropology and geography.

Undergraduate
- Architecture and the Modern City (HART0106)
- British History c.1850-1997 (HIST0178)
- British Politics (POLS0016)
- British Parliamentary Studies (POLS0034)
- Global London - Contemporary Urban Education, Culture and Space (EDPS0247)
- Histories of Global London, 1900 to the Present (I) (URBL0010)
- London Architecture V (HART0027)
- London Lab (SOCS0037)
- Modern and Contemporary Art in London (HART0021)
- Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe (ELCS0032)
- Personal Testimonies of Twentieth Century Britain (HIST0537)
- Poland in the UK (SESS0048)
- The Modern Period I (ENGL0037)
- The Universal Museum, the World's Fair, and the Exhibition of Everything: 1800-Today (HIST0852)
- Thinking Postcolonially: Race and Empire in Twentieth Century Britain (HIST0262)
Postgraduate
- Architecture in Britain since the 17th Century (BARC0039)
- British Government and Politics (PUBL0030)
- Challenging the Gender Binary in Modern Britain (HIST0866)
- Cinema and the British City (CMII0177)
- Contemporary Issues in English Education (CCME0033)
- Empire and its Afterlives in Britain Since 1940 (HIST0362)
- Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain, c1850 to the Present A: Political Movements and Social Change (HIST0375)
- Issues in Historic Urban Environments (BARC0063)
- London: Aspects of Change (GEOG0142)
- Themes and Controversies in Modern British History (HIST0847)