Study

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)
• London and the United States: The Difference a City Makes (AMER0054)
• 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)
• Voluntary Organisations, NGOs and the British Public (1914-1985) (HIST0302)
• "We are here because you were there": Britain and Migration in the Twentieth Centry (HIST0885)

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)