BA (Hons) History Bachelor's degree at Northampton

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to the study of academic History at undergraduate level. It introduces them to some of the many types of History that are practised today. It also shows how evidential and referencing standards are maintained within the discipline.

The purpose of this module is to explore and contextualise the history of the body, health and healing and its contemporary parallels and relevance. The module will investigate how ideas about body and healing interacted with, and were embedded within, historical understandings of gender, society and culture.

This module focuses on the high and late Middle Ages in global context. Taking a thematic approach, students study politics, society, culture and religion to gain an understanding of the events and cultural mindset of the period. Using historiography, primary documents and material culture students examine medieval institutions and systems, but also learn about women and men at all social levels, including marginalised groups such as queer people and immigrants who are excluded from some histori

The purpose of this module is to explore the history of the United States through the interaction of war and society. The student will thus gain an understanding of the interplay between conflict, ideologies, and societal development prior to, during, and after the foundation of the Republic. This will be executed in a series of segments in chronological sequence.

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to the key cultural, religious, economic and political developments which occurred in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. Students will engage with ongoing historiographical debates about the early modern period and will investigate various forms of surviving textual and visual evidence.

This module will introduce students to the main developments of the Holocaust, and will allow them to contextualise genocide in a wider historical awareness of race and politics in Europe. It will explore the ways the Holocaust unfolded in different parts of the continent, and will critically examine how forms of genocide impacted on a range of target communities. It develops a critical understanding of important historiographical debates, and source analysis skills.

This module will introduce students to how British politics and society developed after the end of the Second World War, and the historical debates surrounding these developments. It will explore how and why ideas and experiences of class, gender, sexuality and race altered in relation to the broader political and social changes in Britain during this period. Students will develop the ability to engage critically with important historiographical debates, and to analyse both diverse kinds of prim

The purpose of this module is to explore, through conventional and experiential learning, the causes of the First World War. This process will also facilitate a deeper understanding of how historical causation can be analysed and how academic historiographies evolve.

The purpose of this module is to facilitate and promote students' on-going development of their professional research skills through undertaking personal development plans and skills reflections.

This module provides students with opportunities to develop research and analysis skills by undertaking a problem-solving project for a specific partner. Using traditional and digital media, students will be required to communicate their findings to non-historians, demonstrating transferable skills of use in various graduate-level careers and postgraduate study.

The purpose of this module is explore the fundamental changes that occurred in attitudes to, and policies towards crime, policing and punishment in Britain during a period of fundamental economic and social change.

The purpose of this module is to explore the First World War through the conceptual framework of Total War. It examines the military operations as well as the diplomatic, political, social and economic dimensions of the conflict. Using a mixture of chronological and thematic studies, the module provides the student with an understanding of this seminal war.

The purpose of this module is to explore how intimate relationships forged by ties of blood and marriage shaped the lives of women and men, rich and poor, from infancy to old age in England between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Chivalry: more than just knights in shining armour jousting for the love of fair ladies. Chivalry was in fact the overarching cultural ethos of the medieval world. From the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, chivalric values profoundly shaped medieval political, literary and artistic cultures, while also influencing how people framed wider social values.

The purpose of this module is to explore the lives, and perceptions, of poorer people during a critical period of substantial social and cultural change. Using a digital microhistory approach, this module investigates why, and how, people experienced poverty. Student will learn how to approach the subjects of poverty and socio-economic deprivation, marginalization and health inequalities.

The purpose of this module is to help students understand the nature of global and international history and to build an awareness of the contours and contexts of imperialism and colonialism both in history and in the way they shape contemporary society and culture.

The purpose of this module is to survey examples of terror used for political purposes. It examines both state terror from 1789, and terrorist movements and organisations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It encourages students to develop an understanding of how extreme emotions have been used to influence politics.

The purpose of this module is to develop the employability of our History graduates. It uses the student's dissertation process – the compulsory culmination of their UG intellectual and personal developmental journey – as a vehicle for enhancing their communication skills towards non-academic audiences. It also provides an opportunity to engage in reflection upon prior experiential learning.

The purpose of this module is to explore what it meant to be a citizen in a context where this question was commonly negotiated in terms of what it meant to be a man or a woman. How did Georgians, Victorians and Edwardians conceptualise the duties and attributes of the citizen, and who did they seek to exclude?

The purpose of this module is to examine why from the late Middle Ages the crime of demonic witchcraft became a widely held belief that led to the death of more than 50,000 individuals. During this period, witches were believed to be in league with the Devil to undermine the Christian world. Students will explore why this belief came about, how it was rationalised and ultimately how witches were prosecuted. The module will explore these themes from the perspective of both learned and common peop

The purpose of this module is to explore intelligence history, specifically the contribution of the intelligence services to Britain's security from the early modern period through to the mid-Twentieth Century. It examines foreign intelligence, military intelligence, and security intelligence in both peace and war. Using mostly chronological case studies, the module provides the student with an understanding of how and why intelligence has affected British history.

The purpose of this module is to develop a high level of understanding of the English Country House during the long eighteenth century through historiography and primary sources.

The purpose of this module is to examine the working lives of women and men in England between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.