Modern History

While firmly rooted in research-led scholarship, the Modern History course offered at The Liverpool John Moores University also explores how societies use history, providing an understanding of the ways in which historians can take their skills and apply them beyond the university environment.

The course reflects the team’s varied and wide-ranging interests, facilitating a varied range of study, often in new and innovative fields. Our modules cross national borders and historical approaches, encountering a rich array of primary source materials from newspapers and magazines, film, the ephemeral, through to statistics and propaganda.

Employability

The applied learning techniques and strong industry connections ensure our students are fully prepared for the workplace on graduation and understand how to apply their knowledge in a real world context.

The MA Modern History will enhance your prospects in a wide variety of careers, such as teaching, research, academia, print journalism and the creative, cultural and heritage industries. The program develops sophisticated skills of research, analysis, argument, theorisation, abstraction, evidence and writing. These are highly valued in many areas of employment.

Courses include:

• History Beyond the University

• Research Methods: Philosophies, Theories and Approaches to History

• Forging the People’s War: Film and Cinema in Britain during the Second World War

• Liverpool and Slavery

• Post-War France: Modernity and Crisis, 1944-1981

• War and Peace in Africa since 1990