ObjectivesTo provide advanced study in the field of imperial, colonial and commonwealth history, and an opportunity to acquire the historiographical and technical skills associated with the design of research projects, preparation of bibliographies and the use of archives and original sources
Entry requirementspeople with a first class or 2:1 honours degree or overseas equivalent in a related subject.
Academic titleMA Imperial & Commonwealth History
Course descriptionProgramme description
- Unrivalled access to library and archival resources including India Office Records at the British Library, British state papers in the National Archives and Guildhall Library's collection of empire-related business archives.
- Centre of excellence in Imperial and Commonwealth research and seat of the Rhodes Chair in Imperial History since 1981.
- Shared skills module taught across three MA programmes.
An advanced introduction to general disciplinary and methodological debates in the field of imperial, colonial and commonwealth history.
Students will take modules worth a minimum of 180 credits.
Compulsory core modules: Concepts & Debates in Imperial History – an introduction to key concepts and debates in the historiography of the British Empire and Commonwealth;
Advanced Skills for Historians – a shared skills module taught across three programmes.
Optional modules include: Missionary Religion, Humanitarianism & Empire, 1780-1910; India, Empire & the ‘Global Village’, 1780-1914; Connecting Greater Britain: Britain & the Dominions, c.1850-1939; Empire in the Twentieth-Century World: An Era of Decolonization?
Students may also take one module from the following available in the MA in Modern History and other departments in King’s:
Patriotism in British Politics, c.1870-1918; Navies & Seapower, 1793-2000;The History & Politics of Portuguese-speaking Africa, 1885 to the Present; and/or one module offered intercollegiately by other members of the University of London.
Dissertation: a compulsory 15,000 word dissertation based upon primary sources.
Duration
One year FT, two years PT, September to September.