Specialist courses
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
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
Adam Smith and the State
- Julian Hoppit (UCL)