This six-week course will study the social history of London from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries, starting with the Great Plague of 1665, the Great Fire of 1666 and the rebuilding of the City. Students will learn...
In this course students will explore the two most crucial, troubled and controversial periods of 20th Century Spain: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent Dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1939-1975). The course is broadly...
The course is an introduction to the history of Italian Fascism with particular emphasis on the sacralisation of politics. Under Fascism, the political arena became permeated with myths, rites, and symbols of a secular religion, imbued with...
Tokyo is a city that burps and flashes with the flow of people and commodities. This three-credit course explores how the Tokyo metropolitan area has been produced and experienced through human and nonhuman interaction from the early-1600s (1603 -...
The aim of this 12-week course is to provide students with an appreciation of contemporary London as a reflection of its immense history. The course is divided into two parts: Part One consists of a series of 6 weekly lectures that broadly follow the...
This course provides an overview of modern Irish history and its primary focus is from the 1798 Rebellion to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. Between the late eighteenth century and the early twentieth century Ireland underwent a...
This course will introduce students to that most famous of institutions, the Monarchy. It will provide an overview of how the Monarchy has evolved, often through very tumultuous times, outlining the changing role and function of the monarchy within...
This seminar focuses on the history of Germany from 1871 to the present. The course will concentrate primarily on the fundamental elements of German history and, in particular, how they relate to each other. Thus, the course objective is to gain a...
A study of the Habsburg Empire and its relationship with the states of Central Europe and the peoples living there through an analysis of crucial points in their common history through the end of World War I. The course presents this history as an...
The course attempts to analyse the development of present-day Austria from the multi- national Habsburg Empire at the beginning of the 20th century to a new multi-national “Empire”, the European Union, at the beginning of the 21st century. It will...