Modern History (Taught)

This Masters brings together social and political historians, active in research on topics from the French Revolution to refugees in the 20th century. The programme provides you with thorough research training and a wide set of transferable skills in the conception, design and execution of a research project.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

• History at University of Glasgow is top 10 in the UK for History programmes (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022).

• Glasgow is an outstanding resource hub for the study of Modern History. The university library holds superb printed and manuscript collections from the medieval to the present. You can also use the Baillie Collection of printed medieval and modern sources in Scottish, Irish and English history.

• Members of the Centre for Gender History, the Scottish Centre for War Studies and Conflict Archaeology, the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies and the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies are all leaders in their fields.

• The University’s Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery provides access to primary source materials in fields such as fine art, numismatics and ethnography.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

You will take:

• One core course

• Five optional courses

You will also produce a dissertation.

Core Course
DOING HISTORY: SOURCES AND SKILLS FOR HISTORIANS

Optional Courses
Optional courses within History available in session 2020-2021 include:

APPROACHES TO HISTORY (FOR POSTGRADUATES)
SCOTTISH RADICALISM 1848-1950
ISSUES, IDEOLOGIES AND INSTITUTIONS OF MODERN SCOTLAND
CULTURE, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES
GENDER, POLITICS AND POWER
GENDER, CULTURE AND TEXT
MILITARY SCOTLAND IN THE AGE OF PROTO-GLOBALIZATION, C.1600-C.1800
MEDIEVAL PALAEOGRAPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO READING MEDIEVAL DOCUMENTS
HERETICS AND INQUISITORS IN EUROPE,800-1600
THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1945
WORKING WITH MANUSCRIPTS AS HISTORIANS

With permission, you can also take courses from other subjects in the College of Arts and beyond.

Please note the availability of a particular course depends on student numbers and patterns of staff leave. Not all courses will be available every year.