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 2020/21:

• HST7319 – In the Shadow of the French Revolution: Political Thought 1789-1890 (Professor Gareth Stedman Jones)
• HST7203 – Early Modern Theories of State (Professor Quentin Skinner)
• HST7702 – Empire and Early Modern Political Thought (Fitzmaurice, Andrew)
• 7AAH2010 – From Hume to Darwin: God, Man and Nature in European Thought (Dr Niall O’Flaherry)
• 7AAH2022 – Liberty, Reason, and The State: British Moral and Political Thought in Early-Modernity (Dr Hannah Dawson)
• HIST0633 – Propaganda and Ideology in Rome (TBC)
• HIST0196 – The Transmission of Knowledge in the Ancient World (Dr Paola Ceccarelli)
• HST0795 – The Enlightenment (Dr Will Selinger)
• HIST0809 – Unity before the Union: the Idea of Europe in the Modern Era (Dr Alessandro De Arcangelis)

Courses that have run in previous years:

• HIST0626 – Political Thought in Renaissance Europe (Part 1) (Dr Angus Gowland>)
• HIST0627 – Crisis and Future in 19th Century European Thought (Professor Axel Körner)
• HST7316 – Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries (Professor Georgios Varouxakis)
• HIST0361 – Nations, States and Empires in Transnational Perspectives (Professor Axel Körner)
• HST7001 – Method and Practice in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History (Professor Georgios Varouxakis & Dr Mira Siegelberg)
• HST7700 – Latin for MA students Dr David Harrap

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)