MPhil History
- Country United Kingdom
- Course Duration 12 month
- Course Type Full Time
- Courses Campus On Campus
- Language Specification IELTS
- Program Level Post-Graduate
- Education Required Graduate
- Admission intake SEP
- Minimum GPA 3.3
Application Charges
| Application Fee | Tution Fee |
|---|---|
| Free | GBP 18,600 |
Application Date
| Application Start Date | Application Closing Date |
|---|---|
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2022-12-08
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2023-01-10
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Program Description
As an MPhil or PhD in History student you'll join a research environment in which ambitious and original ideas can flourish.Many of the research opportunities in history are interdisciplinary. They're available for most periods of history and in most geographical regions.Supervision is normally available in the following subject areas:Conflict, War and Genocide
- North America (Professor SM Grant, Dr B Baker)
- Russia and Eastern Europe (Professor S Ghervas, Dr R Dale)
- Central Europe (Professor T Kirk, Professor D Siemens)
- Latin America (Dr K Brewster)
- Spain and Portugal (Dr A Quiroga)
- Ireland and Northern Ireland (Dr S Ashley, Dr F Campbell, Dr S Campbell)
- twentieth and twenty-first century Britain (Dr M Farr)
- modern China (Dr J Lawson)
- English Civil War and French Revolutionary Wars (Dr R Hammersley)
Gender and Sexuality
- genders, sexuality, family and marriage in eighteenth-century Britain (Professor H Berry)
- fertility, birth control and contraception in Greece (Dr V Hionidou)
- history of imperialism and gender in modern Asia (Dr S Sehrawat)
- gender, especially masculinity, in the medieval Islamic world (Dr N Clarke)
- masculinities in early modern Britain; gender in reformation Europe (Dr A Morton)
- gender and sexuality in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain (Dr J Andrews)
Global and Postcolonial history
- history of modern China (Dr J Lawson)
- history of medieval Japan (Dr P Garrett)
- history of South Asia; history of colonial India (Dr S Sehrawat)
- history of the twentieth-century Islamic world, especially Egypt and Sudan (Dr W Berridge)
- history of the medieval Islamic world (Dr N Clarke)
- world history, comparative perspectives across medieval Eurasia, Africa and the Americas (Dr S Ashley)
- race relations in the United States (Professor SM Grant, Dr B Baker, Dr B Houston)
- British imperial history, especially with regard to landed elites and technological transfer (Dr A Tindley)
Health and Medicine
- classical, early modern and modern medicine, history of medical history as a discipline and medical humanities (Dr T Rütten)
- history of death and sepulchral rites in Germany (Dr F Schulz)
- early modern Britain (Professor J Boulton)
- mental illness, psychiatry and asylums in early modern and Victorian Britain; social and cultural history of diseases and death; narrative, literature and medicine socio-cultural history of and death/mortality (Dr J Andrews)
- health, welfare and poverty in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain (Professor J Boulton, Professor H Berry)
- mental health, psychiatry, asylums and deinstitutionalisation in modern Britain (Dr V Long)
- history of the body; colonial medicine, military medicine and hospitals in India (Dr S Sehrawat)
- military medicine in Soviet Russia (Dr R Dale)
- famines, historical demography, public health, abortion, hospitals, popular medicine, medicine in modern Greece (Dr V Hionidou)
- healthcare and healthcare politics in modern Britain (Professor G Smith, Dr V Long)
- history of bodies; history of sexualities and gender; history of venereal disease; public health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; medical ethics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Dr L Sauerteig)
Ideas, Religion and Historiography
- early modern political thought and religious beliefs (Dr R Hammersley)
- European historiography (Dr L Racaut)
- Anti-Catholicism in England, 1500-1800 (Dr A Morton)
- religion and identity, conversion to Christianity between 400-1100AD (Ms AE Redgate)
- Islamist ideology (Dr W Berridge)
- Buddhism in medieval Japan (Dr P Garrett)
- medieval Islamic intellectuals and modern interpretations of the medieval Islamic past (Dr N Clarke)
- fascist ideology (Dr A Quiroga)
- religion and psychiatric/medical care (Dr J Andrews)
- peace and peace-making in modern Europe (Professor S Ghervas)
Labour and Social Movements
- twentieth-century French and British social and labour history; unemployment; social movements and protest (Dr M Perry)
- labour and business history in the cotton industry (Dr B Baker)
- work, health and disability in modern Britain (Dr V Long)
- the civil rights movement in the United States (Dr B Houston)
- civil protest and revolution in Egypt and Sudan (Dr W Berridge)
- labour in modern China (Dr J Lawson)
Oral History, Memory and Place
- oral history of health and primary care, family and community, ethnicity and migration, public history and memory in twentieth-century Britain (Professor G Smith)
- social memory and oral history (Dr M Perry, Dr S Campbell)
- oral history of famines, families, birth control, migration, ethnic Greeks from former Soviet Union, memory of famines (Dr V Hionidou)
- oral history in twentieth-century US history, public history (Dr B Houston)
- Scottish environmental history and land management (Dr A Tindley)
- history of the Vikings (Dr S Ashley)
- Anglo-Saxon England (Ms A E Redgate, Dr S Ashley)
Politics and International Relations
- modern British politics (Dr M Farr, Dr F Campbell)
- Anglo-Irish relations (Dr S Campbell)
- modern Central European politics (Professor D Siemens, Professor Tim Kirk)
- twentieth-century France (Dr M Perry)
- history of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth century (Professor SM Grant, Dr B Houston, Dr B. Baker)
- the politics of culture and sport (Dr K Brewster, Dr C Brewster)
- maritime history, Russia and East Europe (Professor S Ghervas)
Urban Culture and Mass Media
- satire and laughter during the ‘long Reformation’ in Britain (Dr A Morton)
- history of the press in early modern France (Dr L Racaut)
- history of mass media and journalism (Professor D Siemens)
- eighteenth-century urban cultures in Britain (Professor H Berry)
- seventeenth-century London (Professor J Boulton)
- urban culture in the Habsburg Empire (Professor T Kirk)
- twentieth and twenty-first century Britain (Dr M Farr)
- urban reconstruction in Soviet Russia (R Dale)
- print and material culture in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain and France, history of the urban commons (Dr R Hammersley)
