It enables students to engage critically with the contested nature of the past and the role of the discipline as a mediator for understanding both the past and the present.

The Masters programme aims to enable students to:

• Understand historical change over time and the nature of human societies in the past.

• Develop the ability to construct an historical argument, and to present this coherently, economically and elegantly with the appropriate supporting evidence

• Deepen their historical knowledge of a variety of periods, places, topics and themes.

• Evaluate and critically assess a range of different kinds of primary sources and to use them appropriately in the development of historical analysis relevant at Masters Level.

• Evaluate and critically assess secondary sources and historiographical debates, and to use them appropriately in the development of historical analysis relevant at Masters Level.

• Develop the ability to research, plan and write a substantial independent project.

• Work both constructively and critically, by themselves and as part of a team, to deliver specific projects.

• Develop research skills commensurate with postgraduate study in the field of History.

• Reflect productively on their strengths, weaknesses, and methods of learning.