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Study Details: MA 12 months full time
24 months part time
This course focuses on the history of people, their societies and cultures. You will explore how people have lived and died across a wide range of historical periods and geographies.
The core modules and dissertation workshops will introduce you to key concepts and issues in social and cultural history and improve your research and writing skills. You will also choose from a wide range of optional modules, allowing you to focus on societies and periods that are of interest to you.
You could study health care in Africa, communities and castes in India, European life courses or the movements of people across the world. You’ll be able to focus on gender, race and religion as well as other issues that have shaped the lives of individuals and communities. Our offering in social histories of health and medicine, from the medieval to the modern, is particularly strong.
Taught by expert researchers within the School of History and across the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, this course uses the latest approaches and thinking in social and cultural history to give you an insight into the lives of others.
This course is also available to study part-time over 24 months.
We have a wealth of resources allowing you to explore topics that interest you. The world-class Brotherton Library and its Special Collections contain a huge number of early printed, archive and manuscript materials including the Liddle Collection on the First and Second World Wars, Leeds Library of Vernacular Culture, manuscript and commonplace books, travel journals and one of the best collections of cookery books and household manuals in the country.
Extensive collections of national, regional and local newspapers from over the years are available on microfilm, as well as cartoons and satirical prints from the British Museum and extensive collections of letters and correspondence. There’s even the Yorkshire Fashion Archive and M&S Archive on campus, allowing you to gain a real insight into popular culture over time.
A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in history or a related subject.
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This course will enable you to both build historical knowledge and gain high-level research, analysis and communication skills that will prove valuable in a wide range of careers. Graduates have found success in a wide range of careers in education, research, administration and the private sector. Many others have continued with their studies at PhD level.
Concepts and Debates in Social and Cultural History (30 credits)
Communicating History (30 credits)
Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional Modules
Making History: Archive Collaborations (30 credits)
Black Internationalism (30 credits)
Medicine and Warfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (30 credits)
Lifecycles: Birth, Death and Illness in the Middle Ages (30 credits)
Medieval Bodies (30 credits)
Social Histories of South Africa (30 credits)
Gender and Power in Early Modern Europe (30 credits)
Religious Communities and the Individual Experience of Religion, 1200-1500 (30 credits)
The Idea of Black Culture (30 credits)
Histories of Migration from Early Modern to Modern (30 credits)
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