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Slavery in the Americas
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3661
Module code: HS3661 This module examines the history of slavery in two very different American contexts – Virginia and Jamaica – from the 17th century to the abolition of slavery in the 19th century.
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Becoming the Historical Researcher
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2500
Module code: HS2500 (double module) This module will help you to consider simple questions about historical research like, what is it for? What role does historical research play in the world? It will get you to think about how to approach your future research with an open...
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Urban Topography: Image and Reality, 1540-1840
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs7202
Module code: HS7202 This course spans a period of three hundred years, but the primary emphasis is on the 'long eighteenth-century' – a period during which there was unprecedented urban growth and a vigorous outpouring of literary, artistic and cartographic...
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Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2311
Module code:HS2311 What do the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 tell us about Puritan attitudes to young and old women? What impact did slavery have on the black family? When did the ‘American teenager’ first make his/her appearance? What does Teddy Roosevelt's image...
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Blood, Position and Power: The Nobility of Later Medieval England, 1066-1485
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2302
Module code: HS2302 Simon de Montfort, Piers Gaveston, Thomas of Lancaster, The Black Prince, John of Gaunt and Warwick the Kingmaker: six individuals who are always ‘name-checked’ whenever surveys of later medieval England are written.
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After The Holocaust
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs7037
Module code: HS7037 After the fall of the Nazi regime in 1945, Germany was in complete disarray. It was an international pariah due to the discovery of the horrors of the concentration camps and the Holocaust. Vast numbers of its men were prisoners of war overseas or dead.
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Mastering Medieval Sources
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs7022-ml7022
Module code: HS7022/ML7022 The range and scale of sources for studying the Middle Ages is vast, and few students have had the opportunity to tackle more than a few during their undergraduate degrees.
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Becoming the Historical Researcher
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2502
Module code: HS2502 This module will help you to consider simple questions about historical research like, what is it for? What role does historical research play in the world? It will get you to think about how to approach your future research with an open mind, both in...
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Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, c1350-1650
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3691
Module code: HS3691 This module examines the indigenous societies of the Americas prior to and during the onset of European conquest and colonisation.
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Geography and the Everyday Politics of Identity
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy3153
Module code: GY3153 In this module you will explore the relationship between place and identity and how geographers have contributed to understandings of identity.