MA History

The course is designed as a research preparation master's. It is intended to encourage you to be intellectually ambitious by inducting you into a community of historians. It invites you to understand the relationship between your own specialist field and the historical discipline in general as well as to communicate with wider audiences. You will feel sufficiently confident in your own disciplinary identity and mastery of the subject to be able to converse with those in other fields. The course is taught with an emphasis on disciplinary training supplied by the Departments subject specialists with expertise in an outstanding range of areas (Europe, Britain, North America, Africa, China, and Japan) and interdisciplinary engagement while offering opportunities for supported independent study. You will be able €“ and are indeed encouraged €“ to access and use Durhams exceptional cluster of libraries, archives, and special collections.

Subject requirements are a 2:1, with an overall average score of 65% or above, or a GPA of 3.5 or above, or equivalent.