History MPhil; PhD

• North America (Professor SM Grant, Dr B Baker)
• Russia and Eastern Europe (Professor S Ghervas, Dr R Dale)
• Central Europe (Professor T Kirk, Professor D Siemens)
• Latin America (Dr K Brewster)
• Spain and Portugal (Dr A Quiroga)
• Ireland and Northern Ireland (Dr S Ashley, Dr F Campbell, Dr S Campbell)
• twentieth and twenty-first century Britain (Dr M Farr)
• modern China (Dr J Lawson)
• English Civil War and French Revolutionary Wars (Dr R Hammersley)

• genders, sexuality, family and marriage in eighteenth-century Britain (Professor H Berry)
• fertility, birth control and contraception in Greece (Dr V Hionidou)
• history of imperialism and gender in modern Asia (Dr S Sehrawat)
• gender, especially masculinity, in the medieval Islamic world (Dr N Clarke)
• masculinities in early modern Britain; gender in reformation Europe (Dr A Morton)
• gender and sexuality in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain (Dr J Andrews)

• history of modern China (Dr J Lawson)
• history of medieval Japan (Dr P Garrett)
• history of South Asia; history of colonial India (Dr S Sehrawat)
• history of the twentieth-century Islamic world, especially Egypt and Sudan (Dr W Berridge)
• history of the medieval Islamic world (Dr N Clarke)
• world history, comparative perspectives across medieval Eurasia, Africa and the Americas (Dr S Ashley)
• race relations in the United States (Professor SM Grant, Dr B Baker, Dr B Houston)
• British imperial history, especially with regard to landed elites and technological transfer (Dr A Tindley)

• classical, early modern and modern medicine, history of medical history as a discipline and medical humanities (Dr T Rütten)
• history of death and sepulchral rites in Germany (Dr F Schulz)
• early modern Britain (Professor J Boulton)
• mental illness, psychiatry and asylums in early modern and Victorian Britain; social and cultural history of diseases and death; narrative, literature and medicine socio-cultural history of and death/mortality (Dr J Andrews)
• health, welfare and poverty in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain (Professor J Boulton, Professor H Berry)
• mental health, psychiatry, asylums and deinstitutionalisation in modern Britain (Dr V Long)
• history of the body; colonial medicine, military medicine and hospitals in India (Dr S Sehrawat)
• military medicine in Soviet Russia (Dr R Dale)
• famines, historical demography, public health, abortion, hospitals, popular medicine, medicine in modern Greece (Dr V Hionidou)
• healthcare and healthcare politics in modern Britain (Professor G Smith, Dr V Long)
• history of bodies; history of sexualities and gender; history of venereal disease; public health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; medical ethics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Dr L Sauerteig)

• early modern political thought and religious beliefs (Dr R Hammersley)
• European historiography (Dr L Racaut)
• Anti-Catholicism in England, 1500-1800 (Dr A Morton)
• religion and identity, conversion to Christianity between 400-1100AD (Ms AE Redgate)
• Islamist ideology (Dr W Berridge)
• Buddhism in medieval Japan (Dr P Garrett)
• medieval Islamic intellectuals and modern interpretations of the medieval Islamic past (Dr N Clarke)
• fascist ideology (Dr A Quiroga)
• religion and psychiatric/medical care (Dr J Andrews)
• peace and peace-making in modern Europe (Professor S Ghervas)

• twentieth-century French and British social and labour history; unemployment; social movements and protest (Dr M Perry)
• labour and business history in the cotton industry (Dr B Baker)
• work, health and disability in modern Britain (Dr V Long)
• the civil rights movement in the United States (Dr B Houston)
• civil protest and revolution in Egypt and Sudan (Dr W Berridge)
• labour in modern China (Dr J Lawson)

• oral history of health and primary care, family and community, ethnicity and migration, public history and memory in twentieth-century Britain (Professor G Smith)
• social memory and oral history (Dr M Perry, Dr S Campbell)
• oral history of famines, families, birth control, migration, ethnic Greeks from former Soviet Union, memory of famines (Dr V Hionidou)
• oral history in twentieth-century US history, public history (Dr B Houston)
• Scottish environmental history and land management (Dr A Tindley)
• history of the Vikings (Dr S Ashley)
• Anglo-Saxon England (Ms A E Redgate, Dr S Ashley)

• modern British politics (Dr M Farr, Dr F Campbell)
• Anglo-Irish relations (Dr S Campbell)
• modern Central European politics (Professor D Siemens, Professor Tim Kirk)
• twentieth-century France (Dr M Perry)
• history of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth century (Professor SM Grant, Dr B Houston, Dr B. Baker)
• the politics of culture and sport (Dr K Brewster, Dr C Brewster)
• maritime history, Russia and East Europe (Professor S Ghervas)

• satire and laughter during the ‘long Reformation’ in Britain (Dr A Morton)
• history of the press in early modern France (Dr L Racaut)
• history of mass media and journalism (Professor D Siemens)
• eighteenth-century urban cultures in Britain (Professor H Berry)
• seventeenth-century London (Professor J Boulton)
• urban culture in the Habsburg Empire (Professor T Kirk)
• twentieth and twenty-first century Britain (Dr M Farr)
• urban reconstruction in Soviet Russia (R Dale)
• print and material culture in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain and France, history of the urban commons (Dr R Hammersley)

Find out more about areas of supervision for an MPhil and PhD in History

There are also opportunities for joint supervision with Latin American researchers in the School of Modern Languages.

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An MPhil is available in all subject areas. You receive research training and undertake original research leading to the completion of a 40,000 - 50,000 word thesis.

Find out about different types of postgraduate qualifications

A PhD is a doctorate or doctoral award. It involves original research that should make a significant contribution to the knowledge of a specific subject. To complete the PhD you will produce a substantial piece of work (80,000 – 100,000 words) in the form of a supervised thesis. A PhD usually takes three years full time.

Find out about different types of postgraduate qualifications

Depending on your modules, you'll be assessed through a combination of:

• Thesis
• Viva

We offer a wide range of projects for the thesis. These will be provided by our academics. You can also propose your own topic.

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• stay healthy, positive and feeling well
• overcome any challenges you may face during your degree – academic or personal
• get the most out of your postgraduate research experience
• carry out admin and activities essential to progressing through your degree
• understand postgraduate research processes, standards and rules

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• research and professional skills
• careers support
• wellbeing
• health and safety
• public engagement
• academic development

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For 2024-25 entry, we have aligned our standard Home research fees with those set by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The standard fee was confirmed in Spring 2024 by UKRI.

For 2025-26 entry, we will be aligning our standard Home research fees with those set by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The standard fee will be confirmed in Spring 2025 by UKRI.

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We support our EU and international students by providing a generous range of Vice-Chancellor's automatic and merit-based scholarships. See our searchable postgraduate funding page for more information. 

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