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204 Master's degrees in Modern History

Modern and Contemporary History
The Modern and Contemporary History programme at Utrecht University offers you research-based training in history as an academic discipline. We teach you how to do research, and we challenge you to develop your own ideas on topics of your choice.

Holocaust Studies
The Holocaust Studies programme from University of Haifa offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the Holocaust. It provides unique experiential opportunities within a dedicated scholarly community, combining state-of-the-art research, relevant language courses, hands-on internships, educational field trips, and meetings with Holocaust survivors and global experts.

Modern Irish
The Modern Irish degree delivered by the University College Cork includes modules on literature in Irish, the Irish language and Irish manuscripts and palaeography.

Historical Research - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year (2-semester) programme offers successful students guaranteed progression to a postgraduate degree at a top UK university. Learn more at the Historical Research - Pre-Master's Programme at OnCampus London from Birkbeck, University of London.

History - Pre-Master's Programme (PMP)
This one-year (2-semester) History - Pre-Master's Programme (PMP) from OnCampus Southampton offers successful students guaranteed progression to the University of Southampton.

History of the Family (Online)
The History of the Family (Online) course from University of Limerick combines the strengths of two historical traditions: the independent researcher of family history and the sub-discipline of the history of the family.

Public History
Public history brings history to life. The interdisciplinary Public History degree from University of York enables you to gain hands-on experience in the heritage sector alongside cutting edge academic training.

Modern History
This innovative Modern History course offered at The Liverpool John Moores University, thinks about how the past is ‘applied’ in the modern world.

Early Modern History (Part time)
Over the two years of the Master’s programme in Early Modern History (Part time) from the University of East Anglia you’ll examine culture, politics, religion and society between 1500 and 1830, spanning Britain, continental Europe and the Atlantic world.

History (Holocaust and Genocide Studies)
University of Leicester's History (Holocaust and Genocide Studies) course at the University of Leicester is for you if you want to explore the cultural history and memory of crimes against humanity.

History of Political Thought and Intellectual History
Our History of Political Thought and Intellectual History MA course delivered by Queen Mary University of London provides advanced training in intellectual history, the history of political thought and the history of philosophy, spanning the period from the ancient world to the 21st century.

Cultural Heritage Studies (Heritage and Public History)
Explore the many facets of cultural heritage from built environments and archaeological records to the heritage of art, film and literature with the Cultural Heritage Studies (Heritage and Public History) programme at the University of Southampton. You’ll graduate from this MA with the expertise for a successful career in the heritage and tourism sector, or for further study at PhD level.

Public History and Heritage - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year (2-semester) programme offers successful students guaranteed progression to a postgraduate degree at a top UK university. Learn more at the Public History and Heritage - Pre-Master's Programme at OnCampus London from Birkbeck, University of London.

History - Medieval and Early Modern History
Step back in time and deepen your understanding of the past by discovering the complexity and diversity of Medieval and Early Modern History with this History - Medieval and Early Modern History programme from University of Birmingham.

Public History
The Public History MA programme from Queen's University Belfast offers an opportunity to study how historical knowledge is produced, mediated, represented and consumed in public spaces, in a region where the past continues to resonate powerfully.

Modern and Contemporary Writing
This Modern and Contemporary Writing MA course from the University of East Anglia combines criticism and creativity. It’s a unique opportunity to study contemporary literature where it's being made and where modernism is alive in the present.

History - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year (2-semester) programme offers successful students guaranteed progression to a postgraduate degree at a top UK university. Learn more at the History - Pre-Master's Programme at OnCampus London from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Cultural Heritage Studies (Heritage and Public History) - Pre-Master's Programme (PMP)
This one-year (2-semester) Cultural Heritage Studies (Heritage and Public History) - Pre-Master's Programme (PMP) from OnCampus Southampton offers successful students guaranteed progression to the University of Southampton.

History - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year History - Pre-Master's Programme from OnCampus Ireland at University of Limerick offers successful students guaranteed progression* to a range of partner universities.

Hellenic Studies - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year (2-semester) programme offers successful students guaranteed progression to a postgraduate degree at a top UK university. Learn more at the Hellenic Studies - Pre-Master's Programme at OnCampus London from Royal Holloway University of London.