BA (Hons) History

You will study the following core modules:
Semester 1

• What is history?

• People, protest, and power: themes in modern British history

Semester 2

• A middle age? Europe c. 1100-1500

• Empire, environment, and identity: Scotland 1600-2000

You will also choose two further option modules from other humanities subjects. 

You will study the following core modules:
Semester 1

• A curious age: European society and culture, 1500-1750

Semester 2

• Historians and history

Semesters 1 or 2

• Court, kirk, and burgh in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland 

• Themes in American history

You will also choose two further option modules from other humanities subjects. Please note that if you are a direct entrant to the second year, we strongly advise that you take the Level 7 core module, What is History? as one of your options.

You will study the following core module: 
Semester 2

• Public history

You will choose four further modules in Semesters 1 or 2 which may include: 

• A study of things: material culture of medieval and early modern Europe

• The Alps, hills, and plain? Central Europe to 1918

• Crime, custom and conflict, 1700-1850

• Crown-Magnate relations in later medieval Northern Scotland

• Queer Britannia: gender, sexuality and performative identities in Britain, 1800-1950

• Scots in North America

• The Jacobites: patriots, rebels, or opportunists?

• War and chivalry in medieval Britain and France

• Dynastic decline and religious violence: Valois France, 1550-1610

You may choose one further option module from other humanities subjects.  

You will complete a history dissertation, which is a double-credit module that runs across both semesters.  

In addition, you will select four option modules, which may include: 

• Chaos and Conflict?: 'Civil Wars' in high medieval Scandinavia

• Death and destruction: the social impact of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)

• Noble, Rebel, King: Robert Bruce and Medieval Scotland 

• Reaching the estate of manhood in later medieval and early modern Europe 

• Reform, rupture, and resistance: late medieval and early modern Ireland

• The empire strikes back: how the British Empire shaped Scotland 

• The Highland wars: origins, aftermath and interpretations 

• War cruel and sharp: a military history of the Hundred Years' War

If you wish to exit with a BA (Hons) in Scottish History, you must undertake a Scottish History dissertation plus at least two further Scottish History modules.