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Early Modern History

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  • University/Institute Name University of Glasgow
  • Attendance Type On Campus (Full Time)
  • Position Duration1 year
  • Application deadlineJul 2026
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Position Details (Master's)

The Early Modern History program of the University of Glasgow focuses on the late 15th to 18th centuries, providing opportunities to explore social, political, religious and cultural historical themes across wide geographic and chronological ranges in a university with extensive library, museum and archive collections for this period.

Key facts

  • Glasgow is an outstanding resource hub for the study of Early Modern History . On campus, the university library holds superb printed and manuscript collections from the medieval to the present. You can also use the Baillie Collection of printed medieval and modern sources in Scottish, Irish and English history. The University’s Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery provides access to primary source materials in fields such as fine art, numismatics and ethnography.
  • Members of staff teaching on the Early Modern History program of the University of Glasgow have close links with the city’s world class museums.
  • Early Modern History at Glasgow is a dynamic and supportive research community with an increasingly global perspective, where you’re encouraged to take part in many research led initiatives such as seminar programs, reading and research groups.

Courses include:

  • Doing History: Sources and Skills for Historians
  • Heretics and Inquisitors in Europe
  • Military Scotland in the Age of Proto-globalization
  • Working with Manuscripts as Historians
  • The Life and Afterlife of Mary Queen Of Scots

Research Areas & Fields of Study involved in the position

Position Start Date

Sep 2026