Middlesex University is a modern multi-campus university based in North London.  Its 25,000 students include students from around the corner and around the world.  London's position as a world city means it is an exciting place to live and study with museums and cultural events available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 

While we are one of the largest universities in the UK, and offer all the benefits of studying at a large university, our individual campuses are small enough to be friendly and welcoming.  Each is also a specialist centre of learning.  History is taught primarily at the Tottenham campus.

Middlesex offers a distinctive experience for history students:

• Both single and combined honours in History. 
• Modules in British, European, African and American history since the early modern period. 
• A staff made up of highly trained historians who are both leaders in their fields and dedicated to teaching excellence. 
• In addition to a range of taught courses, students are encouraged to pursue Historical Studies in the Community through placements in local archives and libraries. 
• Students are encouraged to do local history and oral history under the guidance of specialists.
• An extremely flexible modular system which allows students to combine the study of history with other topics and to spend a semester abroad studying at another university in Europe or the USA.
• A  History degree which can be taken on a part-time basis; Middlesex University also allows entrance in both September and February. 
• A programme which fosters a love of the past and aims to remain with students after graduation. 
• In the 2001 Guardian annual ranking of university departments, History at Middlesex was ranked second nationally for value added, the measurement which demonstrates most real gains between entrance qualifications to final degree results.  This reflects our commitment to individual teaching and student support.
• Whether your interest is the English Civil War or the Spanish Civil War, the Balkans or the Beatles, life in the trenches or in Victorian Britain, the rise of African nationalism or the American Civil Rights movement, the Wild West or the Swinging Sixties, this is the degree for you.

History can be studied either as single or joint honours.  The first year of the degree students will take up to three history modules and three modules from other disciplines.

Year 1

In year one students take up to three modules in history from the following list:

• HIS1000 The Origins of Modern Europe, c.1400-1600

• HIS1600 Foundation Module: Europe, 1780-1870

• HIS1510 Introduction to History and Computing

Years 2 and 3

In years 2 and 3, students choose modules from the following list which includes cross-accredited modules from other subject areas.  BA Historical Studies students and History majors must take the core modules (HIS3880 and HIS3900); BA Historical Studies students must take HIS3950 or HIS3960 in which they design and complete a research project.  More detailed information is available at our subject area website listed below.

• HIS2010  History and Computing II

• HIS3010  History and Computing III

• HIS3100  The History of Modern Political and Economic Thought

• HIS3150  Historical and Theoretical Problems of European Citizenship

• HIS3200  Family, Society and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1700

• HIS3210  Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650

• HIS3250  The Reformation and Social Conflict

• CIH3110  The Renaissance

• HIS3300  The English Civil War

• HIS3310  Emergence of Industrial Society in 18th & 19th-century Europe

• HIS3320  British Labour History, 1848-1914

• HIS3322  British Social History, 1870-1914

• HIS3330  Politics and Society in Victorian Britain

• HIS3340  History of London from 1850

• HIS3350  The French Revolution

• HIS3360  Reaction, Revolution, Authoritarianism in France, 1815-1870

• HIS3440  Experiences of the First World War

• HIS3480  Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain

• HIS3510  The Russian Revolution in Perspective

• HIS3520  Communism and Socialism in Eastern Europe, 1941-1991

• HIS3550  The Spanish Civil War

• HIS3570  Fascism and Nazism

• HIS3580  Women in Twentieth-Century Britain

• HIS3600  Britain in an Era of Two World Wars

• HIS3660  Society and Culture in Britain, 1880-1950

• HIS3700  A History of Post-War Europe, 1945-1990

• HIS3760  Society and Culture in Post-War Britain

• HIS3800  Introduction to African History

• HIS3840  Historical Studies in the Community

• HIS3850  Oral History

• HIS3880  Historical Sources and Methods (core module)

• HIS3900  History of History (core module)

• HIS3950  History Proposition Module

• HIS3960  BA Historical Studies Proposition Module

• AMS3111 Immigration and Ethnicity in American History

• AMS3219 Nineteenth-Century America

• AMS3220 America in the Twentieth Century

• AMS3240 Slavery and Freedom in North America

• AMS3311 America in World Affairs, 1895-1942

• AMS3312 America in World Affairs, 1943-1992

• AMS3330 US Women in the Twentieth Century

• AMS3340 American Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century

• AMS3600 The African-American Experience since 1900

• RAC3400 Black People in Britain: A History

• RAC3460 Colonialism and Imperialism

Subject area web address:

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