MRes History

You should normally have, or expect to gain, an upper second class undergraduate degree in a humanities or social science subject, or be qualified by previous experience and able to demonstrate the ability to work at postgraduate level.

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Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.

Graduate jobs include roles in museums, galleries, archives, charities, government, and arts administration.

The programme is primarily assessed by a 30,000-word dissertation on your chosen topic, but also incorporates two taught courses:

• Explorations and Debates in History investigates the ways historians have conceptualised and contested historical practice in the modern and early modern periods
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• Debates in Queer History explores experiences, articulations and understandings of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer lives and desires across period and region from medieval and early modern Europe to the present.
• Research Skills develops expertise in a variety of methodologies including the use of oral, visual and material, as well as textual, sources.

You’ll be assessed by two 2,000- and one 4,000-word essays, and a 30,000-word dissertation. The dissertation may be followed by a viva voce.