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Archaeology and History Modules 2025/6

Please note, details for interdisciplinary modules within the HASS faculty can be found here.

Stage One Modules

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)	ELE link
ARC1007	Archaeological and Forensic Science Practicals	15	1
ARC1008	Forensic Archaeology	15	2
ARC1010	Themes in World Archaeology	15	1
ARC1020	Essential Archaeological Methods	15	2
ARC1030	Investigating British Archaeology	15	1
ARC1040	Artefacts and Materials	15	1
ARC1070	Practical Skills in Archaeology	30	1 and 2
ARC1080	Archaeology and Heritage: Past and Futures	15	2
HIH1002	Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: Britain Since 1945	15	2
HIH1014	The Body in Eighteenth-Century Britain	15	2
HIH1042	Murder in Early Modern England	15	1 and 2
HIH1043	The Collapse of Communism in Central-Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union	15	1 and 2
HIH1057	The Opium War: the British Empire encounters the Middle Kingdom	15	1
HIH1063	Sex, Marx and Rock 'n' Roll: The Soviet 'Sixties', 1956-68	15	1
HIH1137	Becoming a Historian: Core	15	1
HIH1139	Becoming a Historian: Extended	15	2
HIH1141	Plants and People in the long Eighteenth Century	15	2
HIH1142	Women, Gender and Education in Britain, c.1850-2000	15	1
HIH1143	Antisemitism and Assimilation: Images of Jews in the Modern World	15	1 and 2
HIH1300	Before Eugenics: Science, Race and Exploration	15	2
HIH1301	An Imperial Health Service: Empire and the British National Health Service	15	2
HIH1402	Britain, America and the Global Order, 1846-1946	15	2
HIH1411	From Wigan Pier to Piccadilly: Britain between the Wars	15	2
HIH1421	Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History	30	2
HIH1422	Understanding Modern History	30	1
HIH1501	The Viking Phenomenon	15	1
HIH1505	The First Crusade	15	1
HIH1506	The First Day of the Somme	15	1
HIH1532	The History of Strategic Thinking	15	2
HIH1585	Ladies of the Night: Prostitution in the Victorian World	15	1
HIH1586	Early Modern Venice: Representations and Myths	15	1
HIH1596	The Good War? The United States in World War II	15	1
HIH1598	The Medieval Inquisition	15	1 and 2
HIH1612	Renaissance Florence 1350-1550	15	1
HIH1618	Body, Border, Partition: Understanding Violence in South Asia	15	2

Stage Two Modules

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)	ELE link
ARC2003	Archaeological Fieldwork Project	30	1 and 2
ARC2004	Archaeological Fieldschool	30	1 and 2
ARC2012	Monumental Changes: Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland	15	2
ARC2120	Things and Us: Ancient and Contemporary Material Culture	15	1
ARC2121	Brooches, Beads, Swords and Shields: Early Medieval Material Culture	15	1
ARC2123	Sustainability and Collapse in Past Societies	15	2
ARC2130	Discovering the Past with Molecular Science	15	2
ARC2401	Understanding the Landscape of Medieval Britain	15	2
ARC2406	Medieval Castles in Context	15	1
ARC2408	Romanisation: Interaction, Conquest and Change in Late Iron Age and Roman Dacia	15	1
ARC2504	Zooarchaeology	15	1
ARC2514	Forensic Anthropology	15	2
HIH2002	Uses of the Past	30	1
HIH2011A	Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe	30	2
HIH2036A	Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965	30	1
HIH2037	American Frontiers: The West in U.S. History and Mythology	30	2
HIH2137A	Inventing Modern Man: Constructions of Mind, Body and the Individual, 1400-1800	30	1
HIH2138A	History of Development: Ideologies, Politics and Projects	30	2
HIH2145A	Spain from Absolutism to Democracy	30	1
HIH2185A	China in the World, 1500-1840	30	1
HIH2186A	Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England	30	2
HIH2208A	Medieval Paris	30	1
HIH2210A	The Russian Empire, 1689-1917	30	2
HIH2218A	Religion, Society and Culture in Tudor England	30	1
HIH2237	Doing History in the Digital Age	30	2
HIH2238	Slavery, Revolution, Independence: Saint-Domingue and Haiti, 1685-1838	30	2
HIH2241	Rise and Demise of Communism in Global Perspective	30	1
HIH2242	British Settler Colonialism and its Legacies	30	1
HIH2243	Britain and Ireland: Union, Conflict, and Independence, 1798-1949	30	1
HIH2590	An Age of Iron? Europe in the Tenth Century	30	2
HIH2591	Philip Augustus and the Making of France, 1180-1223	30	1

Stage Three Modules

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)	ELE link
ARC3000	Archaeological Dissertation	30	1 and 2
ARC3003	Professional Placement	30	1 and 2
ARC3006A	Advanced Fieldschool	15	1
ARC3010	Archaeological Science Dissertation	45	1 and 2
ARC3012	Monumental changes: Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland	15	2
ARC3013	Practicing Archaeological, Forensic and Heritage Science	15	1
ARC3120	Things and Us: Ancient and Contemporary Material Culture	15	1
ARC3121	Brooches, Beads, Swords and Shields: Early Medieval Material Culture	15	1
ARC3123	Sustainability and Collapse in Past Societies	15	2
ARC3133	Digital Pasts	15	1
ARC3136	Advanced Fieldwork	15	1
ARC3401	Understanding the Landscape of Medieval Britain	15	2
ARC3406	Medieval Castles in Context	15	1
ARC3408	Romanisation: Interaction, Conquest and Change in Late Iron Age and Roman Dacia	15	1
ARC3510	Experimental Approaches to Forensic and Archaeological Investigations	15	1
ARC3611	Funerary Osteoarchaeology	15	2
HIH3005	General Third-Year Dissertation	30	1 and 2
HIH3006	Research Project Dissertation	30	2
HIH3330	Truth	30	1
HIH3331	Elites	30	1
HIH3333	Disease	30	1
HIH3334	War	30	1
HIH3335	Violence	30	1
HIH3336	Revolution	30	1
HIH3415	Everyday Stalinism: Life in the Soviet Union, 1928-53	60	1 and 2
HIH3416	Critics of Empire	60	1 and 2
HIH3417	The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914	60	1 and 2
HIH3418	The Russian Revolution	60	1 and 2
HIH3421	Magic in the Middle Ages	60	1 and 2
HIH3422	Street Protest and Social Movements in the Modern Era	60	1 and 2
HIH3423	The Holocaust and Nazi Occupation of Eastern Europe, 1939-1945	60	1 and 2
HIH3430	From the Grand Tour to Gladiator: Modern encounters with the ancient world	60	1 and 2
HIH3431	The Population Problem: Conservation, Eugenics, and Food in the Twentieth Century	60	1 and 2
HIH3433	Beyond Cannibalism: Indigenous Peoples and the European Colonisation of Brazil, 1500-1822	60	1 and 2
HIH3434	The Body in Early Modern England	60	1 and 2
HIH3437	Death to the Traitors: Rebellion and Resisting Tyranny in the Middle Ages	60	1 and 2
HIH3441	Britons Abroad: The Experience of Travel, c. 1650-1900	60	1 and 2
HIH3446	The Celtic Frontier	60	1 and 2
HIH3450	Decolonisation and Colonial Conflict	60	1 and 2
HIH3453	Violence or Non-Violence? Gandhi and Popular Movements in India, 1915-1950	60	1 and 2
HIH3455	Sexualities	30	1

Masters Modules

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)	ELE link
ARCM004	Dissertation	60	2
ARCM005	Professional Skills in Archaeology	15	2
ARCM007	Advanced Project	15	2
ARCM012	Skeletal Anatomy	15	1
ARCM015Z	Researching Heritage Online	15	1
ARCM107	Digital Pasts	15	1
ARCM108	Experimental Archaeology: Research and Public Engagement	15	1
ARCM112	Field Study: The Archaeology of Landscape	15	2
ARCM120	Themes in Archaeological Theory and Practice	15	1
ARCM130	Discovering the Past with Molecular Science	15	2
ARCM300	Material Culture	15	2
ARCM403	Advanced Zooarchaeology	15	2
ARCM405	Advanced Human Osteology	15	1
ARCM407	Zooarchaeology	15	1
ARCM412	Funerary Osteoarchaeology	15	2
ARCM415	The Archaeology of Humans and Other Animals	15	2
ARCM600	Bioarchaeology Dissertation	60	2
ARCM602	Forensic Anthropology: Principles and Practice	15	2
ARCM701	Independent Project: Interpretation, Evaluation and Presentation of Evidence	30	1, 2 and 3
ARCM702	Laboratory Analysis	30	2
ARCM703	Crime Scene Investigation	30	1
ARCM704	Forensic Anthropology	30	3
ARCM705	Forensic Archaeology	30	3
HISM001	Critical Approaches to Early Modern History	30	1
HISM002	Critical Approaches to Maritime and Naval History	30	1
HISM003	Critical Approaches to Imperial and Global History	30	1
HISM039	History in Public: A Workplace Project	30	1, 2 and 3
HISM043	Critical Approaches to the History of Violence and Conflict	30	1
HISM045	Medieval Masterclass	30	2
HISM185	Supervised Independent Study in the Humanities	15	1 and 2
HISM186	Supervised Independent Study in the Humanities	30	1 and 2
HISM187	Critical Approaches to Modern British History	30	1
HISM400	Dissertation in History	60	1, 2 and 3
HISM403	Dissertation in History	90	2 and 3
HISM479	Sexual Discoveries: the Reception, Interpretation and Purpose of Queer History	30	2