Draw on the research and expertise of our academics in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and develop the analytical and critical-thinking skills that are vital across a range of careers.

Our History MA will give you a breadth of understanding and insight across a variety of eras and spaces.

For example:

Medical History

Ideas and Ideologies

Conflict

Oral and Public History

Choose from modules based on themes such as the social or cultural, the political or the economic. With a variety of subdiscipline expertise and course content available in areas such as environmental history and the digital humanities.

We also offer a wide geographical and periodical range: from the pre-historic to the modern, and from the local histories of the North East of Britain to global histories of Europe, Asia, the Americas or Australasia.