BA (Hons) History Bachelor's degree at the University of Kent

How do we navigate the juncture between history, culture, and the politics of evidence? This module explores a series of historical controversies, in which conflicts over information and interpretation generated significant outcomes. You'll learn to reflect on and put into practice some of the core skills of a historian including locating, assessing, and critiquing the credibility of evidence, and considering the plausibility of arguments built around it.

How do historians from a range of backgrounds approach and understand the discipline of history? What is their relationship to the past and to the archive? You'll learn about some key figures who have shaped how history can be written, with attention to the ideologies, assumptions, and various methods or ambitions that different authors have applied to their historical subjects.

What happened when the Roman Empire collapsed? When did countries like England, France and Germany come into being? How violent were the Vikings? What was the Norman Conquest all about? Were the 'Dark Ages' really as grim as they are often made out to be? This module introduces you to the history of early medieval Europe (c.400–c.1100), examining the major political events and social changes that took place during this period.

How were Medieval polities forged? What role did they play in ordinary people's lives? This module is a survey of medieval Europe from c.1000 to c.1450. It includes elements of political, economic, social, religious, and cultural history.

How did a collection of colonies become a global superpower? You'll answer this question by examining the chaotic history of the United States. For much of its early history, the United States was a marvel: a country that would expand across the North American continent and emerge as a powerhouse, barely a century after its founding.

How did a collection of colonies develop into a global superpower? In this module, you'll examine the chaotic history of the United States by focusing on the modern period: the point at which the republic came of age. By the close of the nineteenth century, the republic had emerged out of a civil war that nearly tore the country to pieces.

What is Europe and how did it take the shape we recognise today? This module will cover the major events and themes of European history from c.1700 to the present, reflecting on the establishment of modern political systems and the subsequent challenges they faced during moments of intense crisis.

Has the expansion and collapse of imperialism over recent centuries been the single largest historical process that made the world we live in today? You'll explore this question and critically analyse how empires have shaped the world in countless ways. Through this, you'll gain a detailed understanding of the economic, political, cultural and social histories of empire through a close examination of their structures, instruments and consequences.

How did people in the past experience health and illness and how did this differ according to gender, age, race, ability and geography? How, why and when did professional medicine come to dominate discussions of health and treatments for illness? And was this domination always a good thing for our health?

From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, you'll survey the major events, themes, and historiographical debates in early modern history (c. 1450-1750). During this time in Europe and the wider world, major social, cultural, political and religious changes included the Renaissance, the advent of print, the Reformations, the rise of empires, the Enlightenment, the rise of slavery and an explosion of commodities and trade.

What is modern Britain? How was it 'made'? This module plots the history of modern Britain from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, taking in critical moments, movements, individuals and 'isms.' It looks at how industrialisation, urbanisation, democratic politics, war, imperialism and mass culture shaped the country and explores history from political, social, cultural, economic and environmental perspectives.

How has warfare shaped modern Europe to create the world we live in today? Join a comparative study of wars in Europe from the French Revolution