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History & Archaeology

If you are looking to follow a particular subject stream while you are studying with us, see below a list of courses in the same stream across the four weeks, showing possible combinations by week.

10-session courses running over one week are marked * and 10-session courses running over two weeks are marked **

Week 1 9:00-10:30am 

W110Am02 Rome and China** Dr Nicholas James 10 sessions
W15Am26 From the last Tsar to the first Soviets: Russia 1894-1924  Dr Jon Davis 5 sessions
W15Am27 Holbein and Henry VIII: branding the King Dr Jessica Sharkey

5 sessions

W15Am28 Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution  Dr David Smith

5 sessions

Week 1 1:30-3:00pm   

W15Pm23 Russia after Stalin: from Khrushchev to Putin Dr Jon Davis 5 sessions
W15Pm24 Bloody Mary: reassessing England's first queen Dr Jessica Sharkey 5 sessions

Week 2 9:00-10:30am 

W210Am02 Rome and China** Dr Nicholas James 10 sessions
W25Am27 The reign of Charles II, 1660-85 Dr Seán Lang

5 sessions

W25Am28 The making of a dictatorship: Stalin's Russia Dr Jon Davis

5 sessions

Week 2 1:30-3:00pm   

W25Pm25 1776: American Revolution, British Civil War and Anglo-French World Dr Seán Lang

5 sessions

W25Pm26 Cold War flashpoints Dr Jon Davis

5 sessions  

Week 3 9:00-10:30am 

W35Am24 Countryside and country living in the 18th century  Dr Matthew Neal 5 sessions
W35Am25 Ten historic trials, Part I: Warren Hastings, Oscar Wilde, Captain Dreyfus, the Nuremberg trial, the David Irving trial Dr Seán Lang 5 sessions

Week 3 1:30-3:00pm   

W310Pm02 Embattled Empire - Britain and its Empire in the Second World War** Dr Seán Lang 10 sessions
W35Pm23 Pirates! Dr Ian Chambers 5 sessions
W35Pm24 Four illuminating 18th-century lives Dr Matthew Neal 5 sessions
W35Pm25 The rise of civilisation: Mesopotamia and Mexico Dr Nicholas James 5 sessions

Week 4 9:00-10:30am 

W45Am24

Ten Historic Trials, Part II: King Charles I, Queen Caroline, the Scopes 'monkey' trial, William Joyce; Lady Chatterley

Dr Seán Lang  5 sessions

Week 4 1:30-3:00pm 

W410Pm02 Embattled Empire - Britain and its Empire in the Second World War** Dr Seán Lang 10 sessions
W45Pm23 The collapse of civilisation Dr Nicholas James

5 sessions