Established in 1839, we are an accredited College of the University of Liverpool, and we offer many programmes of study at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Since 1989, the College has invested over five million pounds in a development strategy, which has created a new library and media centre, auditorium, science building, art and technology centre, sports hall, floodlit all-weather pitch, fitness suite, swimming pool and refurbished laboratories.

The College is set on an attractive campus only a few minutes’ walk from Chester’s historic city centre. Chester can cater for all your shopping and recreational needs from designer shops to high street chain stores, pubs, clubs, restaurants and cinemas.

There are approximately 3,500 full-time undergraduates currently studying at the College.

We have 240 undergraduates currently studying within the History Department.

The History Department is located in the Grade II listed Blue Coat School, an eighteenth-century building next to the city walls, ten minutes’ walk from the main College campus.

The Blue Coat School incorporates fully-equipped lecture and seminar rooms, a library with computing and internet facilities and an archaeological workshop. The History Department also has a base at the Cheshire Military Museum at Chester Castle, where there are lecture rooms and a seminar room, student common room and ready access to museum and archive collections.

The Department of History offers a number of programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Undergraduate programmes include, History, History and Heritage Management, Archaeology and Art History.

Postgraduate programmes include: Victorian Studies, Landscape, Heritage and Society, and Military Studies.

Chester College programmes are flexible. History can be studied as a Single Honours or Combined Subjects degree. The History and Heritage Management degree is a specialised degree programme and cannot be combined with other subjects. Archaeology and Art History may only be studied as part of a combined studies degree.

Teaching is conducted through a combination of informal lectures, seminars, tutorials, supplemented where appropriate by visits to places of historical interest in the region. Assessment is largely through written coursework, although some modules include one or two hour examinations.

The Blue Coat School that houses the Department of History

Single Honours and Combined Subjects

Turning Points in European History, 1000 -1600 and 1600 – 2000.

Past, Present and Practice (an introduction to the skills of the historian)

Constructing Histories (Single Honours only)

History in the environment: 1^st to 16^th centuries and 17^th to 20^th centuries.

Level 2: Modules selected from:

Crusading Europe, Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy, The Northern Renaissance, Reformation in France and Germany, Europe in the 19^th century, War Nationalism and Revolution in Twentieth Century Europe, Fascism and Communism in Europe, US Foreign Relations: The Boxer Rebellion to Vietnam, Heritage Management, Debates in History, Historical Research: Methods and Practice (Single Honours only).

William Rufus to Henry II, The Wars of the Roses, Lancastrian and Yorkist England, The English Revolution: Causes and Consequences, The Condition of England Question 1830-1867 and 1868-1914, America in the Progressive era, 1896 –1924 and America: the Jazz Age to F.D. Roosevelt, Britain and the Irish Question, 1912-1949, Britain and Northern Ireland: The Troubles – 1968-1998, Dissertation on a topic of the student’s choice, Historical Sources: Analysis and Interpretation (Single Honours only).

Level One: The Pursuit of Heritage

Level Three: The Nature of Heritage Resources, Dissertation on a subject of the student’s choice.

Level One: Two modules on History in the Environment, and one on the Pursuit of Archaeology.

Level Two: Two modules on the Archaeology of Britain over the past two Millennia, and on on Methods and Theories of Archaeology.

Level Three: Up to six modules drawn from: Archaeology and Contemporary Society, The Archaeology of Material Culture, The Archaeology of Imperialism, Remote Sensing, Environmental Applications of GIS, Dissertation on a topic of the student’s choice.

Level One: Three introductory modules: Representing the Body, Materials and Methods, Viewing Landscape.

Level Two: Three modules covering the period from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, Art and Spirituality in Medieval Europe, Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy, The Enlightenment.

Level Three: Two modules on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Modernism and Modern Culture, 1800 – 1945, Modernism and Postmodernism.

For further information on undergraduate programmes, please telephone the Admissions Office or History Department on 01244 375444.