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After The Holocaust
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/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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The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs3777
Module code: HS3777 The Franklin Roosevelt era included arguably the most significant years of twentieth century US history, both domestically and internationally.
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The History of Alcohol in North America, 1650-1950
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs2359
Module code: HS2359 This module surveys the social and cultural history of drinking in modern American society, and considers how the historical and cross-cultural study of drinking can add to contemporary debates surrounding alcohol consumption.
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Blood, Position and Power: The Nobility of Later Medieval England, 1066-1485
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/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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Becoming the Historical Researcher
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/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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Imperialism and Decolonisation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs2314
Module code: HS2314 At the beginning of the 20th century the British Empire covered a fifth of the world’s land surface and contained almost a quarter of the world’s population. Less than sixty years later it was rapidly disintegrating.
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Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/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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Feminist Fiction
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en1060
Module code: EN1060 This module examines the influence of feminism on fiction and considers the ways that fiction by women responds to debates about gender.
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Chaucer’s Worlds
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en2010
Module code: EN2010 (double module) This module will introduce you to one of the most important periods in the development of English literature, the 14th and 15th centuries.
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Sex and Sensibility: Women, Writing, Revolution
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3208
Module code: EN3208 Just what else was going on around the time Austen was writing her first novels? This module looks beyond the few women authors we've heard of to discover a time of revolution, love, and argument.