Masters Degrees (British)

The MPhil in Modern British History offers students an exciting and intellectually stimulating course, combining research skills and in-depth understanding of the development and latest innovations within modern British history. Read more

This new and unique Masters importantly addresses black writing as a continuum. Its heritage in British culture is considered along a trajectory marked by historical presences as connecting with migratory, indigenous and global perspectives. Read more

The British Studies MLitt is the only interdisciplinary Masters course in British Studies in the UK. It brings together four key disciplines from across the humanities – History, Literature, Philosophy and Archaeology. Read more

British Music Studies is a fast-growing research field in today’s musicology. Read more

Our course offers you the chance to study Contemporary British History at an advanced level in one of the top ranked History departments in Europe. . Read more

This MA in the History of the British Isles will deepen your appreciation of the distinctive political, social and cultural aspects of the British and Irish historical experience, from the Reformation period to the present day, while also fostering your awareness of values and experiences the British and the Irish share with their European and global neighbours. Read more

Twentieth century Britain is one of the most exciting areas of modern history. With new documents being released every year and new archives being added to all the time, new researchers are finding an incredible range of topics to explore, examine and reassess. Read more

Our British History MA is the only one of its kind in the UK. It provides you with the opportunity to study the political, social, economic and cultural history of the British Isles. Read more

British art making has been at the heart of a wide range of worldwide networks and dialogues, from the material culture of Anglo-Saxon Britain through the painting and sculpture of eighteenth-century and Victorian Britain, to British Modernism and Britart. Read more

This MA stimulates new knowledge and understandings about the understudied and often marginalised experiences of black Britons. Most studies of black history are concerned with US Civil Rights. Read more

This programme provides an intellectually rigorous introduction to Modern British Studies through two core modules and your choice of optional modules. Read more

This ground-breaking course is timely and necessary, taking Black British writing seriously as a discipline. This degree is a world first. Read more

This. course. will be led by Professor Simon Heffer, Professor of Modern British History in the University and a leading authority on the period. Read more

The MA in Railways Studies is designed to give students an alternative perspective on railway history, and the course will provide a better understanding of how academics have investigated the social, cultural, political, business, economic, and technological aspects of British railway history between c.1825 and c.2010. Read more

The PGDip in British Sign Language/ English Interpreting and Translation includes theoretically based knowledge of language, linguistics and culture required in order to understand the various client groups’ language choices and interact appropriately with them, and the practical language manipulation skills that are required of competent interpreters. Read more