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
You’ll be given lots of information about which textbooks to read and introduced to the University Library, as well as the many ebooks we have for you to access, when you begin your studies in September. We don’t recommend rushing out to buy texts before you arrive. But if you can pick some up second hand, borrow from a library or access online, we suggest:
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 also 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).