Online History 2024-2025

The course provides students with the opportunity to study a broad sweep of Scotland's history in both chronological and thematic terms. Themes offered include: Landscapes and Identities; Government; War and Conflict; Religion; Popular Culture; Mobility; Travel and Tourism; Urban and Rural Life; Highlands and Islands; Scotland and Empire; Education; Housing and Health; National Identities and Imaginations; Environment; Anglo-Scottish Relations; Population; and Literature. 

The course will provide students with an introduction to, overview of, and engagement with, the key skills required to conduct research in archival and library collections at graduate level. It will focus on specific issues especially relevant to the University's Special Collections, the Museum Collection and Aberdeen City and Shire Archives, where students will receive an introduction into the nature of the collections, the way to access online materials relevant to their research, and the principles according to which these archives are structured. It will also address issues relating to overseas archives, and will incorporate an element of training in transcription skills.

This course will examine the attitudes and approaches to witchcraft, magic and the preter/supernatural in early modern Protestant Scotland in the wider context of popular belief and traditional practice.

This course consists of one-to-one online supervision with a member of staff. It provides students with the opportunity to write an extended, 10,000-word investigation and analysis of a topic selected by the student and approved by the course co-ordinator and supervisor.

This course will examine support for and opposition to Jacobitism in Scotland in the long eighteenth century. It will explore the development of Jacobite cultures and identities and the long-term legacies of Jacobitism in Scotland.

The course has a global reach, engaging participants with the motives and experiences of emigrants and sojourners in the Scottish diaspora, and connecting those themes back to Scotland. Topics covered include historiographical debtes; causes and consequences of late eighteenth-century emigration; Highland and Lowland Clearances; the recruitment business; Scots and Native Americans; Religion and Faith in the Diaspora; the Inter-war Exodus; the significance of sojourning; strengths and weaknesses of emigrant testimony as a source; and the diaspora in literature, poetry and popular culture. Depending on students' interests, particular attention may be paid to Scottish settlement and its impact in a particular location, particularly the USA, Canada, New Zealand, or Australia.

This course consists of one-to-one online supervision with a member of staff. It provides students with the opportunity to write an extended, 10,000-word investigation and analysis of a topic selected by the student and approved by the course co-ordinator and supervisor.

Hitler is omnipresent in public life and yet remains an enigma. This course examines Hitler’s politicization and radicalization, as well as the ideas that have shaped the social behaviour of himself and his followers. It looks at how Hitler prominently shaped the 20th century and was shaped by it. Finally, in asking what Hitler means to audiences in the 21st century, it explores the normative political, social, and cultural lessons that people have drawn from Hitler’s ideas and actions.

This course will consider a variety of epidemics throughout history and consider the ways in which states and individuals responded as well as the interplay between state and individual responses.

Hitler is omnipresent in public life and yet remains an enigma. This course examines Hitler’s politicization and radicalization, as well as the ideas that have shaped the social behaviour of himself and his followers. It looks at how Hitler prominently shaped the 20th century and was shaped by it. Finally, in asking what Hitler means to audiences in the 21st century, it explores the normative political, social, and cultural lessons that people have drawn from Hitler’s ideas and actions.