This course examines the rise and fall of the British Empire and its manifold legacies in Britain and beyond.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
The civil wars that swept across the British Isles in the 17th century left few lives untouched. This course will explore the causes, conduct and significance of the English civil wars.
The First World War was a cataclysmic event. This course examines international relations before 1914, the countries which fought the war, how it started, the expectations of the participants, and assesses the war's historical significance,
The recent discovery of Richard III's remains in Leicester highlights the dynamic new research being conducted into the period known as the Wars of the Roses. This course asks students to engage with the latest work on this exciting and tumultuous period.
Propaganda shaped history throughout the world in the twentieth century. We will explore its roots in mass politics, literacy and media, its consequences for democratic and totalitarian politics and culture, and its challenge to the very idea of truth.
This course analyses why the inter-war years were a period of such political extremism. It will investigate the distinctive features of Soviet Communist ideology and the impact of Lenin and Stalin on the USSR.
In addition to tracing the evolution of the modern state and political ideas and ideologies, this course focuses on issues that confront people from all parts of the world on a day-to-day basis.
A modern, democratic, multicultural Britain developed throughout the twentieth century. This course will examine the key social, economic and political influences that have shaped modern Britain.
The reign of Henry VIII transformed British history. This ten-week online course charts the political, religious and cultural changes of the period.
The touchstones of Shia Iran are its ancient culture, sensitivity to Anglo-US perfidy and stifling of Iranian democracy, and its hostility to Israel and to Sunni Saudi Arabia. A ruthless but modern monarchy was replaced by a brutal 'Islamic' republic.
200 years of upheaval in the British Monarchy, from the death of Britain's longest-reigning King to that of the world's longest-reigning monarch to succeed as an adult. Tumultuous times met partly with development by evolution, at others by upheaval.
The course aims to offer an overview of the diverse artistic, social, and religious and secular cultural life in the Byzantine Empire which contributed to the development of the greatest European medieval empire.