STUDY

In Making History, you will learn essential and advanced skills for the management of your individual postgraduate research project. You will hear from, and – where relevant – work with, a range of experts and practitioners in public history, including staff at the HOLD as well as local and national institutions and organisations (including, but not limited to, archives, museums, and historic properties and sites).

This module will examine the history of conflict and considers its relationship to the environment and landscape in which it takes place. It has a global scope and although it focuses on the twentieth century it also reaches further back to help illustrate the idea of an enduring nature of conflict. It also considers the overlap between military history and environmental history. 

This module will explore historical experiences of migration and mobility through a series of chronological case studies involving qualitative and quantitative research. It will examine practices and patterns of internal migration, emigration, and immigration as they have been experienced in modern Britain with a particular focus on the experience of the locality and the wider East Anglian region and its people

This module will examine the relationship between the local and global in the context of the modern history of East Anglia. It will explore the period from the 1840s to the late-twentieth century to highlight the impact of global and extra-national forces on the experience of local places and local communities.

The dissertation is a mandatory element within the MA programme and gives you the opportunity to conceive, plan, manage and complete a substantial work of independent study based on the analysis of both primary and secondary sources. The dissertation should either be an investigation into a particular topic based upon the evaluation of primary sources, positioned and contextualised within their historiographical field, or an extensive and detailed review and analysis of the historiography of a specific historical topic,

This module looks at how the eighteenth century witnessed a reconfiguration of power relations between bodies and states. Especially in the ‘Western’ world, political freedoms were claimed on the basis of an appeal to the universal rights of mankind. At the time of liberalism’s emergence, the ‘West’ and an increasingly colonised world diverged.

This module explores the risks and dangers faced by children in the British world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and corresponding attempts to increase and extend child protection. Whilst the period witnessed the increased sentimentalisation of notions about childhood, it was also characterised by a number of dangers that posed particular risks to those below the age of majority, including empire, war, poverty, poor health, neglect and abuse

This module invites you to become critical, engaged, working practitioners of public history. We will explore a retrospective of the ways that publics have engaged themselves in history, the ways that history has been made more accessible to wider audiences in more recent years, and the many opportunities open to historians to leverage emerging technologies and media to share knowledge and engage with new collaborators and audiences.

In Making History, you will learn essential and advanced skills for the management of your individual postgraduate research project. You will hear from, and – where relevant – work with, a range of experts and practitioners in public history, including staff at the HOLD as well as local and national institutions and organisations (including, but not limited to, archives, museums, and historic properties and sites)

This module will examine the history of conflict and considers its relationship to the environment and landscape in which it takes place. It has a global scope and although it focuses on the twentieth century it also reaches further back to help illustrate the idea of an enduring nature of conflict. It also considers the overlap between military history and environmental history.

This module will explore historical experiences of migration and mobility through a series of chronological case studies involving qualitative and quantitative research. It will examine practices and patterns of internal migration, emigration, and immigration as they have been experienced in modern Britain with a particular focus on the experience of the locality and the wider East Anglian region and its people

This module will examine the relationship between the local and global in the context of the modern history of East Anglia. It will explore the period from the 1840s to the late-twentieth century to highlight the impact of global and extra-national forces on the experience of local places and local communities.

The dissertation is a mandatory element within the MA programme and gives students the opportunity to conceive, plan, manage and complete a substantial work of independent study based on the analysis of both primary and secondary sources. The dissertation should either be an investigation into a particular topic based upon the evaluation of primary sources, positioned and contextualised within their historiographical field, or an extensive and detailed review and analysis of the historiography of a specific historical topic,

This module looks at how the eighteenth century witnessed a reconfiguration of power relations between bodies and states. Especially in the ‘Western’ world, political freedoms were claimed on the basis of an appeal to the universal rights of mankind. At the time of liberalism’s emergence, the ‘West’ and an increasingly colonised world diverged.

This module explores the risks and dangers faced by children in the British world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and corresponding attempts to increase and extend child protection. Whilst the period witnessed the increased sentimentalisation of notions about childhood, it was also characterised by a number of dangers that posed particular risks to those below the age of majority, including empire, war, poverty, poor health, neglect and abuse

This module invites you to become critical, engaged, working practitioners of public history. We will explore a retrospective of the ways that publics have engaged themselves in history, the ways that history has been made more accessible to wider audiences in more recent years, and the many opportunities open to historians to leverage emerging technologies and media to share knowledge and engage with new collaborators and audiences.