• On the MA History, you will learn to critically examine different periods of history - including social, cultural, political, and public history - and conduct original research at both local and global levels.
  • Each module (including the final major project) will introduce them to new research methods and the analytical questions that go with them This will allow them to develop an understanding of the problems inherent in the historical record, such as the many contrasting viewpoints, and give them the means to test them effectively.
  • As well as using both digital and archival resources, they will develop the skills required to critically engage with non-textual historical documents such as artifacts and visual sources as presented by museums, film, or artwork.
  • They will then, through a series of workshops, choose a topic for their major project that calls upon the research methods they have learned and your awareness of the relevant historical concepts. By the end of the course, you will have acquired and demonstrated the skillset of a genuine historian - not just an antiquarian.
  • Their theoretical studies will be enhanced through our links with many local bodies, archives, libraries, and organizations, including the Cambridgeshire Collection; the Thatcher and Kinnock archives at Churchill College; Imperial War Museum (Duxford); and Cambridge University Press. Through these, they will research projects.