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This module introduces you to history as both an academic and professional activity. It will explore the nature of history as a subject and introduce you to the different ways in which historians uncover and interpret the past. You will also develop the practical skills needed to excel in your undergraduate degree, including presenting written work with confidence, referencing primary and secondary sources effectively, and contributing meaningfully to seminar discussions. You will become a reflective learner, honing your written and oral communication, thinking critically about the past, and discovering the methods historians use to create knowledge.

This hands-on module will bring history to life. Through workshops and local case studies, many in partnership with Suffolk Archives at The Hold, you will explore a wide range of primary sources, from censuses and newspapers to diaries, letters, maps, and legal records. You will learn to decode, analyse, and interpret these materials, uncovering stories, experiences, and ideas of the past. While the module covers diverse topics, periods, and approaches, the research skills you gain will be valuable for studying any historical period or region.

From the battlefields of Bosworth to the Hanoverian succession, this module covers one of the most dramatic periods in English history. Moving beyond ‘great men’ and key dates, you will discover how England reinvented itself over two centuries of war and revolution. You will tackle the big questions: Who held power and who didn’t? How did ordinary people make sense of a constantly changing world? How a war-torn Tudor State emerged as a colonial and commercial global power? This module will provide you with the analytical skills to assess the upheavals and structural changes that laid the foundations of modern Britain, and to situate early modern England within broader European and Atlantic contexts.

In this module, you will explore the history of Empire through an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and anti-colonial lens. You will examine the history of resistance, rebellion, and revolution through the voices, experiences, and testimonies of people racialised as non-white and colonised by the British and other European empires.

The module also challenges white supremacist narratives, encouraging you to critically rethink the histories we inherit and whose stories get told. For example, why do we continue to ignore the Haitian Revolution when Black freedom fighters like Frederick Douglass regarded Haiti as the “pioneer emancipator” of the c19th? How does empire shape our daily lives, the food we eat, the culture we consume, and the museums we visit? Crucially, how does colonialism still impact the lives of Indigenous people worldwide?

Throughout, you will develop the analytical skills to interrogate historical narratives, evaluate competing perspectives, and engage confidently with some of today’s most urgent debates.

This module will highlight and explore the forces that shaped modern Britain from 1750 to 1985. You will discover what made Britain unique in this period as well as why it became such a powerful and influential nation state. Discover how industrialization, population growth, the extension of democracy, and Britain’s rise and later decline as a global power transformed society. In a chronological journey beginning with the stirrings of industrialisation and the development of a modern state through to the bitter social and political conflicts of the 1980s you examine the impact of key themes such as relations with Ireland, the experience of total war as well as the differing ways that the British perceived themselves and each other in terms of class, gender, race, and ethnicity.

History in Practice provides the chance to gain hands-on experience in history-related careers while developing your independent research skills. As part of the module you will have the opportunity to collaborate with teaching and heritage professionals to discover what these careers involve and how to pursue them. You will be given the chance to apply your research, analysis, and communication skills to create a public exhibition, host an event, or develop school history curriculum. The module will also help you to develop your research skills in preparation for your final year dissertation. You will be given inspiration, training and support to help you to scope and develop your own independent research proposal. 

This module explores the history of the United States from the American Revolution to its rise as an industrial and imperial world power today. You will focus on the voices and experiences of people racialised as non-white, especially those who led enslaved rebellions, challenged white supremacist politicians and governments, protested segregation, campaigned for social justice, and all those who fought to ensure the U.S. lived up to its famous ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Along the way, you will investigate key themes such as enslavement, democracy, territorial expansion, immigration, industrial capitalism, the Civil War, Reconstruction and Redemption, the Wild West, the Harlem Renaissance, the World Wars, and the Civil Rights Movement. You will work with a wide range of primary and secondary sources including speeches, autobiographies, paintings, murals, poems, films, and photographs, learning the analytical skills to decode and interpret them.

From the trenches of the First World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, this module explores how ideological conflict and total war transformed the world beyond recognition. You will investigate the ideologies, turning points, and key figures that shaped one of history’s most turbulent centuries, and grapple with the big questions they still raise today. You will examine some of the driving political forces of the century including fascism, communism, imperialism and Islamism and how ordinary people were drawn into the conflicts between them through war, collaboration, resistance and terrorism.

You will work directly with primary sources, including speeches, propaganda, and personal testimonies and develop the skills to analyse competing historical interpretations and assess the lasting impact of ideology and global conflict on the modern world.

This module explores the role of sex and gender in British life over the past five hundred years, uncovering how ideas about gender roles and sexuality were formed, challenged, and transformed across the centuries. Moving beyond a simple male/female divide, you will examine how gender intersected with class, race, age, and religion to produce vastly different lived experiences. You will also engage with cutting-edge debates that make gender history one of the most dynamic fields today. The module will help you develop the critical skills needed to interrogate the past with fresh eyes and appreciate just how complex, diverse, and surprising human identities have always been.

This module introduces you to one of history's most fascinating and fast-growing fields: the story of how ordinary people became consumers. You will focus on Britain and western Europe between the late 1600s and early 1800s, exploring the moment when buying and owning ‘stuff’ became a banal, daily experience. By examining commodities and the people who bought, sold, and made them, you will uncover the social and economic forces that shaped the world we live in today. The module will provide you with the analytical skills to investigate how a flood of new commodities from across the globe transformed daily life and to understand how material culture reflects the deeper values and inequalities of any society.

The dissertation is your chance to investigate the questions that matter to you and showcase everything you have learned across your degree. You will work under the guidance of an academic supervisor to choose a topic that you are passionate about, interrogate primary sources, and engage with current scholarship to produce a substantial and original piece of historical analysis of approx. 9,000 words.

This module explores ‘The Troubles’, which gripped Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1998, and brought death, destruction, and division to the United Kingdom. You will trace the long and turbulent history of Ireland from the late sixteenth century to the peace negotiations of the 1990s to uncover the deep roots of a conflict that still shapes lives and politics today. You will explore important turning points including seventeenth-century plantations and rebellions, Protestant ascendancy, campaigns for Catholic Emancipation and Home Rule, revolution and partition, the impact of two World Wars, insurgency and terrorism on a divided society. The module concludes with the path to the Good Friday Agreement and the recent history of power-sharing and the rise of Sinn Féin. This module will help you develop the critical skills to make sense of how centuries of conflict, identity, and politics collided to shape modern Ireland.

This module explores one of history’s most intriguing and disturbing phenomena: the witch hunt. Focusing on England, Scotland, continental Europe and New England between 1450 and 1750, you will investigate why witch hunts erupted when and where they did, who was accused and why, and what their fate reveals about the societies that condemned them. Through a series of diverse case studies, you will uncover the legal, religious, social, and cultural forces that drove communities to extraordinary acts of fear, repression and violence, and ask why belief in witchcraft endured long after the last witch was executed.

This module confronts one of the darkest and most urgent themes in history: genocide. You will investigate the forces that drive societies to attempt the annihilation of entire groups of people, asking what history can and cannot tell us about these atrocities. Through a series of case studies including the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, and the genocides committed against Indigenous people across the globe, you will ask questions that historians and lawyers continue to debate: what is genocide and why is it so hard to define? How do supposedly ‘ordinary’ people become genocidal killers? Why has the international community failed to prevent various genocides, and can we ever prevent it? And why is denial, as the final stage in the process of genocide, on the rise today?

In an interdisciplinary approach that centres the voices and testimonies of those who have survived genocide, you will develop the analytical skills to evaluate competing interpretations, construct evidence-based arguments, and engage critically with the contested concept of ‘genocide’.

This module explores the human experience of warfare in Britain during the First World War, Second World War, and the Cold War. You will examine the evolving relationship between the military, the state, and ordinary people, considering how conflict shaped lives, communities, and national identity. Working with a range of primary and secondary materials, you will develop the analytical skills to interrogate the historiography of twentieth-century warfare and assess how the cultural legacy of military conflict has been remembered, mythologised, and contested in British society.

This module introduces you to history as both an academic and professional activity. It will explore the nature of history as a subject and introduce you to the different ways in which historians uncover and interpret the past. You will also develop the practical skills needed to excel in your undergraduate degree, including presenting written work with confidence, referencing primary and secondary sources effectively, and contributing meaningfully to seminar discussions. You will become a reflective learner, honing your written and oral communication, thinking critically about the past, and discovering the methods historians use to create knowledge.

This hands-on module will bring history to life. Through workshops and local case studies, many in partnership with Suffolk Archives at The Hold, you will explore a wide range of primary sources, from censuses and newspapers to diaries, letters, maps, and legal records. You will learn to decode, analyse, and interpret these materials, uncovering stories, experiences, and ideas of the past. While the module covers diverse topics, periods, and approaches, the research skills you gain will be valuable for studying any historical period or region.

From the battlefields of Bosworth to the Hanoverian succession, this module covers one of the most dramatic periods in English history. Moving beyond ‘great men’ and key dates, you will discover how England reinvented itself over two centuries of war and revolution. You will tackle the big questions: Who held power and who didn’t? How did ordinary people make sense of a constantly changing world? How a war-torn Tudor State emerged as a colonial and commercial global power? This module will provide you with the analytical skills to assess the upheavals and structural changes that laid the foundations of modern Britain, and to situate early modern England within broader European and Atlantic contexts.

In this module, you will explore the history of Empire through an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and anti-colonial lens. You will examine the history of resistance, rebellion, and revolution through the voices, experiences, and testimonies of people racialised as non-white and colonised by the British and other European empires.

The module also challenges white supremacist narratives, encouraging you to critically rethink the histories we inherit and whose stories get told. For example, why do we continue to ignore the Haitian Revolution when Black freedom fighters like Frederick Douglass regarded Haiti as the “pioneer emancipator” of the c19th? How does empire shape our daily lives, the food we eat, the culture we consume, and the museums we visit? Crucially, how does colonialism still impact the lives of Indigenous people worldwide?

Throughout, you will develop the analytical skills to interrogate historical narratives, evaluate competing perspectives, and engage confidently with some of today’s most urgent debates.

This module will highlight and explore the forces that shaped modern Britain from 1750 to 1985. You will discover what made Britain unique in this period as well as why it became such a powerful and influential nation state. Discover how industrialization, population growth, the extension of democracy, and Britain’s rise and later decline as a global power transformed society. In a chronological journey beginning with the stirrings of industrialisation and the development of a modern state through to the bitter social and political conflicts of the 1980s you examine the impact of key themes such as relations with Ireland, the experience of total war as well as the differing ways that the British perceived themselves and each other in terms of class, gender, race, and ethnicity.

History in Practice provides the chance to gain hands-on experience in history-related careers while developing your independent research skills. As part of the module you will have the opportunity to collaborate with teaching and heritage professionals to discover what these careers involve and how to pursue them. You will be given the chance to apply your research, analysis, and communication skills to create a public exhibition, host an event, or develop school history curriculum. The module will also help you to develop your research skills in preparation for your final year dissertation. You will be given inspiration, training and support to help you to scope and develop your own independent research proposal.

This module explores the history of the United States from the American Revolution to its rise as an industrial and imperial world power today. You will focus on the voices and experiences of people racialised as non-white, especially those who led enslaved rebellions, challenged white supremacist politicians and governments, protested segregation, campaigned for social justice, and all those who fought to ensure the U.S. lived up to its famous ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Along the way, you will investigate key themes such as enslavement, democracy, territorial expansion, immigration, industrial capitalism, the Civil War, Reconstruction and Redemption, the Wild West, the Harlem Renaissance, the World Wars, and the Civil Rights Movement. You will work with a wide range of primary and secondary sources including speeches, autobiographies, paintings, murals, poems, films, and photographs, learning the analytical skills to decode and interpret them.

From the trenches of the First World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, this module explores how ideological conflict and total war transformed the world beyond recognition. You will investigate the ideologies, turning points, and key figures that shaped one of history’s most turbulent centuries, and grapple with the big questions they still raise today. You will examine some of the driving political forces of the century including fascism, communism, imperialism and Islamism and how ordinary people were drawn into the conflicts between them through war, collaboration, resistance and terrorism.

You will work directly with primary sources, including speeches, propaganda, and personal testimonies and develop the skills to analyse competing historical interpretations and assess the lasting impact of ideology and global conflict on the modern world.

This module explores the role of sex and gender in British life over the past five hundred years, uncovering how ideas about gender roles and sexuality were formed, challenged, and transformed across the centuries. Moving beyond a simple male/female divide, you will examine how gender intersected with class, race, age, and religion to produce vastly different lived experiences. You will also engage with cutting-edge debates that make gender history one of the most dynamic fields today. The module will help you develop the critical skills needed to interrogate the past with fresh eyes and appreciate just how complex, diverse, and surprising human identities have always been.

This module introduces you to one of history's most fascinating and fast-growing fields: the story of how ordinary people became consumers. You will focus on Britain and western Europe between the late 1600s and early 1800s, exploring the moment when buying and owning ‘stuff’ became a banal, daily experience. By examining commodities and the people who bought, sold, and made them, you will uncover the social and economic forces that shaped the world we live in today. The module will provide you with the analytical skills to investigate how a flood of new commodities from across the globe transformed daily life and to understand how material culture reflects the deeper values and inequalities of any society.

The dissertation is your chance to investigate the questions that matter to you and showcase everything you have learned across your degree. You will work under the guidance of an academic supervisor to choose a topic that you are passionate about, interrogate primary sources, and engage with current scholarship to produce a substantial and original piece of historical analysis of approx. 9,000 words.

This module explores ‘The Troubles’, which gripped Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1998, and brought death, destruction, and division to the United Kingdom. You will trace the long and turbulent history of Ireland from the late sixteenth century to the peace negotiations of the 1990s to uncover the deep roots of a conflict that still shapes lives and politics today. You will explore important turning points including seventeenth-century plantations and rebellions, Protestant ascendancy, campaigns for Catholic Emancipation and Home Rule, revolution and partition, the impact of two World Wars, insurgency and terrorism on a divided society. The module concludes with the path to the Good Friday Agreement and the recent history of power-sharing and the rise of Sinn Féin. This module will help you develop the critical skills to make sense of how centuries of conflict, identity, and politics collided to shape modern Ireland.

This module explores one of history’s most intriguing and disturbing phenomena: the witch hunt. Focusing on England, Scotland, continental Europe and New England between 1450 and 1750, you will investigate why witch hunts erupted when and where they did, who was accused and why, and what their fate reveals about the societies that condemned them. Through a series of diverse case studies, you will uncover the legal, religious, social, and cultural forces that drove communities to extraordinary acts of fear, repression and violence, and ask why belief in witchcraft endured long after the last witch was executed.

This module confronts one of the darkest and most urgent themes in history: genocide. You will investigate the forces that drive societies to attempt the annihilation of entire groups of people, asking what history can and cannot tell us about these atrocities. Through a series of case studies including the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, and the genocides committed against Indigenous people across the globe, you will ask questions that historians and lawyers continue to debate: what is genocide and why is it so hard to define? How do supposedly ‘ordinary’ people become genocidal killers? Why has the international community failed to prevent various genocides, and can we ever prevent it? And why is denial, as the final stage in the process of genocide, on the rise today?

In an interdisciplinary approach that centres the voices and testimonies of those who have survived genocide, you will develop the analytical skills to evaluate competing interpretations, construct evidence-based arguments, and engage critically with the contested concept of ‘genocide’.

This module explores the human experience of warfare in Britain during the First World War, Second World War, and the Cold War. You will examine the evolving relationship between the military, the state, and ordinary people, considering how conflict shaped lives, communities, and national identity. Working with a range of primary and secondary materials, you will develop the analytical skills to interrogate the historiography of twentieth-century warfare and assess how the cultural legacy of military conflict has been remembered, mythologised, and contested in British society.