Dissertation

The taught courses are worth a total of 120 credit points. Provided you achieve the required standard, you may then proceed to a period of individual research under the supervision of an academic member of staff in the School, resulting in a final dissertation worth a further 60 credits.

The 12,000-15,000 word, independent primary source-based research project, is supervised by one or more members of the academic staff. One-to-one supervision will be available to you while you are completing your dissertation via email, and audio/video calls.

• In the Shadow of Barra  
• British Nurses of the First World War: the Impact of the Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919 and Memory  
• The Irish of Pittsburgh's Strip  
• The Scottish Paradox - Exlporing Potential Explanations for Migration in Late Nineteenth Century to the United States  
• Beyond Abolition: William Lloyd Garrison and the Struggle for Progressive Reform, 1865-1879  
• 'Just Permitted to Live': Race and the Conception of Servitude and Freedom in the Atlantic World, 1600-1700  
• Gender and the Changing Social and Moral Parameters of Punishment for Property Crimes During late 17th and Early 18th Century London