We are a modern, dynamic University with an educational history dating back to 1825. Our style and ethos combine the best of the old with the most stimulating of the new to provide a progressive approach to teaching learning and research. The Sunday Times and The Guardian leagues tables rate University of Plymouth as one of the top new universities.

We have received excellent ratings in the subject areas recently reviewed in external assessments of teaching quality and we were one of the first universities to be presented with a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Excellence in Higher and Further Education.

The quality of life in the South West is one of the many reasons students choose to study at the University of Plymouth. All our campuses are easily accessible whether you travel by rail, road or air.

History is taught on the Exmouth campus and there are currently around seventy five History undergraduates.

History is taught on the Exmouth campus of the University. As the largest town in East Devon, with a beach stretching for two miles, Exmouth is a popular holiday destination and a haven for watersports enthusiasts with its own diving school, as well as sailing and windsurfing facilities. Alongside its physical attractions, Exmouth enjoys a strong live music scene all year round and has a variety of pubs, clubs and bars. The city of Exeter - with all it has to offer - is only a short bus or train ride away, allowing students all of the benefits of a city location coupled with the advantages of a seaside town.

In Exmouth there are halls of residence located on, or adjacent to, the campus. Many of these have landscaped gardens and some overlook or lead down to the sea. We are particularly fortunate to have a wealth of good quality holiday accommodation available to our students for the whole academic year, and excellent working relationships with local landladies/landlords.

Our aim is to offer high-quality courses which are absorbing, stretching, exciting and relevant in the world outside the University. The History team prides itself on its good teaching and impressive research and publication record. Every member of the team teaches and supervises students at all levels, including postgraduates. All of the team are active researchers and the range of expertise includes: modern British social history; aspects of twentieth- century American and European history; British political history (post 1945); political biography; British military and naval history and popular culture in the modern period.

History is taught in a variety of ways: traditional lectures, seminars, tutorials, and there are workshops, where students work with and interpret primary source materials. Sometimes these workshops involve visits to local County Record Offices to study particular primary records and then write a report. Students also conduct and evaluate interviews, and undertake many visits and field trips that are linked to the area of study, for example, visits to Plymouth Dome and rural life museums show how history is presented to the public.

You will be introduced to a wide range of historical areas. These include monarchy and governance: England 1660-1714; the Hanoverian dynasty and Whig supremacy: England 1714-1760; early and late 20th- century Britain; the birth of the American nation; America in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution, 1763-1812, and world politics, 1890-1939. You will also attend a workshop which will involve work with primary source materials, visits to heritage sites and museums, and an examination of the industrial archaeology of the local area.

A greater range of historical skills will be developed. Modules explore the social history of England from 1650 to 1800 and include a local parish study; America in the 19th and 20th centuries; the making of modern Ireland; the decline and fall of the British Empire; English politics from 1760 to 1832, and Germany and Russia in the 20th century. Workshops will allow you to examine primary source materials at local county record offices and explore the techniques of the oral historian and the historian of film.

Specialist studies which reflect the research interests of the lecturing staff are offered at this stage. These include: crime and riot in the 18th and 19th centuries; the Second World War; the people’s peace: British society and politics, 1940-65; the League of Nations and the United Nations: international relations, 1919-2000. You will also be required to write a dissertation. This will be on a subject of your choice and will be based on work done on primary source material.

History can be studied on its own or in major joint or minor combinations with: American Studies; Art History; Education Studies; English; European Languages & Culture; Gallery & Museum Studies; Heritage; Media Arts; Music; Popular & Media Culture; Theatre and Performance, and Visual Arts.

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