This module provides an introduction to public history and heritage. It will explore the many ways in which the public engage with history and the new opportunities open to historians to leverage new technologies and media to share knowledge and involve new audiences. As well as learning about the theory of public history you will also have the opportunity to gain valuable experience by practicing it through a contribution to a real-life public history project.

The dissertation is a mandatory element within the MA programme and gives you the opportunity to conceive, plan, manage and complete a substantial work of independent research based on primary and secondary sources. You will work under specialist supervision to bring your research to fruition, but the choice of topic is yours.

This module will examine relationships and interactions between the local and the global since 1800. It will highlight the increasing impact of global and extra-national forces on local places and local communities and the social, cultural, economic, technological and environmental changes these forces have ushered in or helped shape. The module will focus heavily on Suffolk as a basis for case studies and therefore partly offers a new history of Suffolk in the modern era. Themes and topics include industrialisation, agriculture, fishing, war, technology, environmental, cultural and social change.

This module will explore historical processes of migration and mobility, often using case studies to highlight particular practices and patterns. It will examine migration through a global, national and local lens, although it will often focus on internal movement, emigration, and immigration in modern Britain with a particular concern with the experience of East Anglia in this context. Case studies will focus on internal migration within Britain and outmigration to overseas colonies in the 19th century as well as migration to the from Europe, the Caribbean, South Asia, and East Africa into the UK in the 20th century.

This module will examine the history of conflict and its relationship to the environments and landscapes in which it has occurred. It takes a global perspective and although it focuses primarily on the twentieth century the module will also examine the more distant past to highlight the enduring relationship between armed conflict, landscape and environment. The module will feature case studies, including from the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War of 1990/91.