History MRes

**The MRes provides excellent preparation for study at MPhil/PhD level for students with a defined research topic, but is also a degree in its own right.**<br/><br/>The programme is primarily assessed by a 30,000-word dissertation on your chosen topic, but also incorporates two taught courses:<br/><br/><br/>- **Explorations and Debates in History** investigates the ways historians have conceptualised and contested historical practice in the modern and early modern periods.<br/><br/><br/>Or<br/><br/><br/>- **Explorations and Debates in Queer History** explores experiences, articulations and understandings of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer lives and desires across period and region from medieval and early modern Europe to the present.<br/><br/><br/>Or <br/><br/><br/>- **Explorations and Debates in Black British History** explores experiences, articulations and understandings of people of African descent and origin within a British context from the early modern period through to the present.<br/><br/><br/>- **Research Skills** develops expertise in a variety of methodologies including the use of oral, visual and material, as well as textual, sources.<br/>