History MPhil

**The distinctive emphasis of Goldsmiths Department of History is a theorised, interdisciplinary and comparative approach to research.**<br/><br/>The culture of the Department of History is open, friendly and accessible, and research students are encouraged to be innovative in their use of sources and methodologies.<br/><br/>Our staff is young and we are on the cutting-edge of our fields and the student-teacher ratio allows us to devote an unmatched amount of time to individual supervision. <br/><br/>**MPhil and PhD topics in the department currently include:**<br/><br/><br/> + The Song of the Pen: Penny Romantic Literature 1839-89<br/> + The Freak Show in Nineteenth-Century Britain<br/> + British Women and German Prisoners of War in the 1940s<br/> + Decoding Dress in Interwar Detective Fiction<br/> + The British Diaspora - Race Return Migration and Identity in 20th Century Britain<br/> + Atatürk and his Cult - A Visual History, 1918-1968<br/> + Another Balkan Myth? The Extreme Right Wing in Serbia: Indigenous Phenomenon or Foreign Adaptation?<br/> + London Schools and Children, 1870-1920<br/> + The Seekers Found: Radical Religion during the English Revolution<br/>