To help you feel prepared for your postgraduate studies, we’ve gathered together a range of course related activities including suggested reading, useful websites and some great things to do right now.
Suggested reading
HUM4054 – Research Methods for Historians
Bentley, Michael, ed., Companion to Historiography (London: Routledge, 2002)
Burke, Peter, What Is Cultural History? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004)
Carr, E.H., What is History? (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
HUM4055 – The Archival Project
Berger, Stefan, Heiko Feldner, Kevin Passmore Writing History: Theory & Practice (London, 2003)
Evans, R.J., In Defence of History (London: Granta Books, 2001)
Hart, C., Doing Your Masters Dissertation (London: Sage, 2004)
HUM4056 – Modern Medievalisms
Bildhauer, Bettina and Chris Jones, eds, The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: OUP, 2017)
Fugelso, Karl, Joshua Davies and Sarah Salih, eds, Medievalism and Modernity, Studies in Medievalism 25 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016)
Fugelso, Karl, ed., Memory and Medievalism, Studies in Medievalism 15 (Cambridge: D.S Brewer, 2007).
HUM4057 – Anti-Semitism and the West
Renton, James, and Ben Gidley, Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story? (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Nirenberg, David,Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013).
Mosse, George, Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism (New York: Fertig, 1978).
Arendt, Hannah,The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: 1951).
Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, transl. by John Cumming (London: Verso, 1997 [1947]).
HUM4058 – Crime, Criminal Justice and the City, 1840-1940
D’Cruze, S. (ed),Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950: Gender and Class (Harlow: Longman/Pearson, 2000).
Emsley, C., Crime and Society in England 1750-1900 (multiple editions)
Kilday, A., and D.Nash (eds), Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Nash, D., and A.Kilday, Murder and Mayhem: Crime in 20th Century Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Wiener, M.J., Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England (Cambridge: CUP, 2004).
HUM4059 – Awakening Giant: The US and WWII
Adams, Michael C.C., The Best War Ever: America and World War II, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
Ambrose, S. and Douglas Brinkley, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 (Penguin, 2012 ninth ed)
Blum, John, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II(New York: H.B. Yovanovich,1976)
Cox, Robert, Production, Power, and World Order (New York, 1987) Dallek, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 (Oxford: OUP, 1979).
HUM4060 – Book History & Material Culture
Levy, M. and T. Mole (eds),The Broadview Introduction to Book History(Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2017)
Suarez, M.F.,The Book: a Global History(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Birkerts, S.,The Gutenberg Elegies: the fate of reading in an electronic age (London: Faber, 1996)
Chartier, R. and L.G. Cochrane,The order of books: readers, authors and libraries in Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994)
Clanchy, M.T.,From memory to written record: England 1066-1307 (London: Edward Arnold, 1979).
LIT4003 – Entertaining the Victorians
Lee Jackson, Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment (2019)
Mike Huggins, The Victorians and Sport (2007) Kevin Williams, Get Me A Murder A Day: A History of Media and Communication in Britain (2009)
To help prepare you for your studies, you may find it useful to read Peter Burke, What Is Cultural History? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004) or E. H. Carr, What is History? (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).