overview draw on the research and expertise of our academics in the school of history, classics and archaeology and develop the analytical and critical-thinking skills that are vital across a range of careers. our history ma will give you a breadth of understanding and insight across a variety of eras and spaces. for example medical history ideas, ideologies and cultural transformations conflict oral and public history choose from modules based on themes such as the social or cultural, the political, or the economic. we have subdiscipline expertise and course content in areas such as environmental history and digital humanities. uniquely, you'll also have access to local archives and resources, engaging directly with our collections of primary source material. we also offer a wide geographical and periodical range: from the pre-historic to the modern, and from the local histories of the north east of britain to global histories of europe, asia, the americas or australasia.