Overview

This exciting renewed programme is designed to be flexible and centred on your needs: whether you’re building the foundations for higher-level research, looking to develop applied skills for your professional development, or simply interested in your own place and its history.Teaching is fully online and comprises both real-time group work in seminars and workshops as well as asynchronous video and written content.Your final project can be either a traditional dissertation, or a special project like a podcast series or creative piece – or you can choose the placement route, tackling a critical challenge through hands-on experience with one of our partners across the heritage and archives sector.Modules include:

Thinking History
Connecting History
Scoping and Planning a Project
Historic Places: Landscapes, Buildings and Significance
Applied Public History
Place Layers: Making Histories of People and their Places
Place and Policy
Final Project / Dissertation
IHR London Summer School

The independent study element of the course – taking place in term 3 for full-time students or term 6 for part-time – will see you choose between a 15,000-word dissertation, a placement with a partner organisation (of your choice, although the IHR can assist in finding suitable placements) of not fewer than eight weeks, or an 'alternative output', which might be a series of podcasts, a small exhibition or a set of interpretation panels, or a set of teaching materials, or something similar of your own devising; we are open to offers!

Positioned within the rich intellectual environment of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, the IHR is the perfect place in which to engage with localities and communities. Home to the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community, the Victoria County History and the Layers of London project, the Institute boasts an unrivalled concentration of expertise in both urban and rural places, ranging widely beyond the usual boundaries of history as a discipline.

Programme Structure

By the end of the programme, students will be able to:

understand the complex and charged discourses around ‘community’ and ‘place’ and contribute to them with their own original research and analysis
critically address problems in knowledge or understanding of historical places and communities, Identifying and selecting appropriate methods, tools and analytical frameworks to bring to bear upon them
use a wide variety of scholarly tools and services to undertake independent historical research
communicate research findings to academic and public audiences
apply historical research skills in a variety of professional environments
frame, plan and execute a substantial historical research project

The programme re-imagines postgraduate taught study, taking full advantage of the possibilities of online learning and with an emphasis on student-centred formats, wide geographical accessibility, and bespoke learning.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months
Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-06 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-07-31 00:00:00

Language

English

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

London, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom

Disciplines

History View 51 other Masters in History in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

The normal minimum entry requirement is an upper second-class honours degree from a British university, or an equivalent qualification from a foreign institution, in any discipline in the humanities which is related to the course. All students whose first language is not English must provide recent evidence that their written and spoken English is adequate for postgraduate study.

Tuition Fees

Funding

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