Master of Arts - Global History

The aim of this course is to put something very big under the microscope.

By expanding the scale at which historians would normally operate, the Global History MA will present students with an opportunity to think with growing confidence and imagination about the world, its origins, its complexities and continuous transformations across a uniquely broad geographical and chronological scope.

Students will be taught the latest skills, concepts and approaches to the subject, and they will share in the imaginative challenges and intellectual vistas that this exciting new field of history is opening up. It is from this largest of historical perspectives that students will be invited to choose their own specialist research topic, culminating in a supervised 15,000-word dissertation.

Research in the department spans the medieval to the modern, including topics such as China’s Middle Period, the material culture of the early modern household, and non-governmental organisations in modern Britain.

This research expertise is evident within the teaching within the programmes drawing on the diverse regional and chronological expertise available in the Department of History.