HY4A4 - Dissertation with an Asian focus
The dissertation is an exercise in using primary sources to write on a precise topic in...
HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century
HY113 provides an introductory survey of events outside Europe in the twentieth century, with a...
HY116 - International Politics since 1914: Peace and War
HY116 is about the history of international relations since 1914. The course emphasises the...
HY118 - Faith, Power, and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500 – c.1800
This course provides an introduction to the international history of the early modern period by...
HY119 - Thinking like a Historian
This course takes history students through the process of writing a first draft of an essay for...
HY120 - Historical Approaches to the Modern World
This course provides a foundation to allow first-year historians to come to grips with the many...
HY200: The Rights of Man: A Pre-Modern History of Rights-Based Discourse in the West
Human Rights are often assumed to have a precise twentieth-century origin in the 1948 Universal...
HY206 - The International History of the Cold War
Although the Cold War dominated the second half of the 20th century, until recently we had only...
HY221 - The History of Russia, 1682-1825
This course deals with the Russian Empire during its 'long eighteenth century' – in other...
HY226 - The Great War 1914-1918
HY226 focuses on the international and comparative history of the First World War. The military,...
HY232 - War, Genocide and Nation Buiding. The History of Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 1914-1990
HY232 aims to explain the history of these regions as expressed and moulded by the peoples and...
HY235 - Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840
HY235 is concerned with providing a comparative political history of the major East Asian...
HY239 - People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the Present day
HY239 is designed to provide students with an introduction to the history of Latin America from...
HY240 - From Empire to Commonwealth: War, Race and Imperialism in British History, 1780 to 1979
The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by...
HY241 - What is History?: Methods and Debates
What is history? How and for what purposes do we study the past? What kinds of debates and...
HY242 - The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History
HY242 covers the entire lifespan of the Soviet Union from its inception in 1917-22 in the...
HY245: United States and the World since 1776
This course explores how the United States has engaged the wider world since independence. It...
HY246 - The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race, and Revolutions 1780s-1980s
This course presents an overview of Caribbean political, economic, social and cultural history...
HY311: Limited War during the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75)
Based on a variety of primary sources, this course explores the US experience during the Korean...