Social History

As part of this Social History program at Leeds Beckett University you’ll:

• Explore the social and cultural history of Britain, Europe and the Wider World from c. 1750 to the very recent past

• Develop key transferable skills in research, writing, communication, and digital technology

• Join a thriving academic community and take part in a student-led conference

• Benefit from the links with external partners such as Leeds Museums and Galleries and Leeds Libraries, with access to resources and networking opportunities

• Get familiar with historians’ approaches and methods

Career

The MA Social History develops key transferable skills in communication (written and oral), research, analysis, and project development/management. It will help you to appreciate the different factors that can influence individual and group behaviour.

These sought-after skills make graduates highly employable across a range of sectors and roles. Graduates have successfully secured employment within financial, legal and professional services, as well as the creative industries, education, and the public sector.

Courses may include:

• Researching Cultures

• Dissertation

• All Consuming: Researching 18th-Century Material Culture

• Cultures of Confinement: The United States, 1800-2020

• Debating the Documents of Life in 20th-Century History

• European Cities: Making Urban Landscapes and Cultures since c.1945

• Fame, Hero-Worship and Celebrity Culture c.1750-c.1914

• From Field to Fork: Food History in a Global World

• Journeys and Discoveries: Travel, Tourism and Exploration 1768-1996

• Organised Crime in the Modern World: Global Criminal Cultures

• Real Men? British Masculinities, c.1850-2000

• Rethinking the Past: Definitions, Concepts and Approaches to Public History

• Victorians in Italy

• Useable Pasts