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

• Glasgow offers exceptional resources for the historian, including our university museum, The Hunterian, Scotland’s oldest public museum with over a million items, and our library, one of Europe’s oldest and largest university libraries, with extensive collections from the medieval to the present.

• The Hunterian provides access to primary source materials in fields such as fine art, numismatics and ethnography, while the library offers collections like the Baillie Collection, which contains printed medieval and modern sources on Scottish, Irish, and English history.

• Our staff are all leaders in their fields and members of Centres such as the:

• Centre for Gender History

• Scottish Centre for War Studies and Conflict Archaeology

• Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies

• Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies.

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

Dissertation
Dissertation (MSc History)

Optional Courses
Optional courses within History available include:

Issues, Ideologies And Institutions Of Modern Scotland
Gender, Politics And Power
Gender, Culture and Text
Military Scotland in the Age of Proto-globalization, c.1600-c.1800
Making a Living: Work, Gender and Society 1700-1850
Scottish Radicalism 1848-1950
A 'New Form of Slavery'?: Indentured Labour in Post-Slavery Caribbean Societies, c. 1836-1917
Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Political Violence

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