Swansea University, MA, Modern History

Students take 3 core modules in part 1, and 3 elective modules; part 1 core modules: Historical methods and approaches; new departures in the writing of history; research folder; part 1 elective modules: the enlightenment in national contexts; political economy and the role of the state, 1762-1840; Stalin's Russia, Stalin's Russians, 1929-1953; Austria versus the Ostmark; altering images of the Welsh industrial town: Swansea, 1780-1850; popular politics and protest in Wales, 1780-1850; the making of modern sexualities, 1650-1800; globalizing the Victorians; sport and identity in Britain's Celtic 'Fringe'; Celtic borders; Celtic frontiers; empire and enlightenment: Scottish society and the making of modern Britain; from Vesuvius to Snowdon: the evolution of travel, curiosity and aesthetics; inventing traditions: the modern Celtic experience; Ireland after the famine, 1850-1925; from princely possessions to public museums: A history of collecting and display; artists and the great war, 1914-1918; the British conquest of India, 1757-1858; Swansea and the sea; the people's war: Britain, 1939-1945; collective memories of war in 20th-Century Europe; the American way of war; war and society in the 19th and 20th centuries.