In addition to taking the core course, students select from a menu of specialist options.

Below is a list of courses that will be running in 2023/2024:

• Enlightenment Histories: History and Time in 18th Century Thought and Culture
• Political Thought in Renaissance Europe A
• Crisis and Future in 19th Century European Thought A
• Politics of the Soul in Early Modern Europe
• Unity before the Union: The Idea of Europe in the Modern Era
• The Politics of Knowledge in the Roman Republic
• Empire and Early Modern Political Thought
• Capitalism and Political Thought
• The Black Radical Tradition
• Early Modern Theories of the State
• Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries
• Theories of Empire: from Enlightenment to Liberalism
• Method and Practice in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History
• Magic in the Middle Ages A
• The Philosophy of Nietzsche
• State, Law and Decision: Political and Legal Thought of Carl Schmitt

Courses that have run in previous years:

• HST7705 Indian Political Thought (Dr. Chris Moffat, QMUL)
• 7AAH2035 Liberty, Reason, and the State: British Moral and Political Thought in Early-modernity (Dr Hannah Dawson, KCL)
• HIST0633 Propaganda and Ideology in Republican Rome (Dr Amber Gartrell, UCL)
• HIST0863 The Constitutional Thought of the French Revolution (TBC, UCL)
• TBC The Idea of Freedom (Dr. Michael Garnett, Birkbeck)

• 7AAH2010 – From Hume to Darwin: God, Man and Nature in European Thought (Dr Niall O’Flaherry)
• HIST0361 Nations, States and Empires in Transnational Perspectives (Professor Axel Körner)
• HIST0776 The Cause of All Mankind? US Encounters with Revolution, c.1880-1980 (Dr Alex Goodall)
• HST7203 Early Modern Theories of State (Dr Samuel Zeitlin)
• HST7316 Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries (Prof. Georgios Varouxakis, QMUL)
• HST7319 – In the Shadow of the French Revolution: Political Thought 1789-1890
• HST7700 Latin for MA students Dr David Harrap
• HST7704 Patria and Cosmopolis: Nation, Country, and Humanity in Political Thought, from ancient Greece to the Age of Revolutions (Professor Georgios Varouxakis)
• HST7203 – Early Modern Theories of State (Professor Quentin Skinner)
• 7AAH2022 – Liberty, Reason, and The State: British Moral and Political Thought in Early-Modernity (Dr Hannah Dawson)
• HIST0196 – The Transmission of Knowledge in the Ancient World (Dr Paola Ceccarelli)
• HST0795 – The Enlightenment (Dr Will Selinger)
• HIST0626 – Political Thought in Renaissance Europe (Part 1) (Dr Angus Gowland>)
• HIST0627 – Crisis and Future in 19th Century European Thought (Professor Axel Körner)
• HST7001 – Method and Practice in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History (Professor Georgios Varouxakis & Dr Mira Siegelberg)

The Public Sphere in Britain, 1476-1800

• Jason Peacey (UCL)

Theories of Empire: from Enlightenment to Liberalism

• Maurizio Isabella (QMUL)

Selfhood, Sensibility and the Politics of Difference in the European Enlightenment

• Adam Sutcliffe (KCL)

Enlightenment and Revolution: Political Ideas in the British Isles, 1688-1800

• Ian McBride (KCL)

Signs, Mind, and Society: Early Modern Theories of Language

• Avi Lifschitz (UCL)

Visions of Capitalism

• Jeremy Jennings (KCL)

Crisis and Future in Nineteenth-Century European Thought

• Axel Körner (UCL)

Political Thought in Renaissance Europe

• Angus Gowland (UCL)

The Invention of the Question: a History of European Thinking, 1100-1400

• John Sabapathy

Adam Smith and the State

• Julian Hoppit (UCL)