Economic and Social History

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Location

Streatham Campus, Exeter

Programme features

* offers an excellent education in a very wide range of historical subjects and geographical locations over a broad time-span from Anglo-Saxon England to modern Western and Eastern Europe, some parts of Asia, North and South America, and Africa
* produces graduates who are highly competent in subject-specific, core academic, and personal and key skills that are both relevant and transferable to employment.
* draws on the expertise of a number of highly respected research centres which are at the forefront of their respective disciplines
* participation in joint seminar programmes offering insights into a very wide range of research cultures and specialisms
* excellent preparation for students intending to continue on to doctoral-level research with a good track record in obtaining funding for further study

The MRes in Economic and Social History will allow you to focus specifically on economic and social history and its methods of analysis, while giving you the opportunity to study other topics in international history, religious and cultural history, political history, naval or gender history.

You can select from option modules that include subjects such as ritual in the Middle Ages; witchcraft and the supernatural in the 16th and 17th centuries; sexuality; health, medicine; gender and the body; party politics and international diplomacy; and the impact of modern wars on culture, economy, society and memory.