This part-time two-year course is taught within the Departments
of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Birmingham.
Students take three taught courses each academic year (six in
total), which are delivered over nine Saturday day schools each
year (three per term). There is an induction session for first-year
students on Saturday 20 September 2008. Students have access to
additional individual tutorial support during the programme.
Taught Courses Year 1 c. 1050 -
1700
Town and Country in the West Midlands, c. 1050 - 1300
Reformation, Social Change and Civil War: the West Midlands
in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Sources and Research Techniques for the Study of the West
Midlands in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
Taught Courses Year 2 c. 1700
- 2000
Sources and Research Techniques for the Study of the West
Midlands in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries
Transforming the Region: Economy, Society and Politics in
the West Midlands in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Turmoil and Change: Economy, Society and Politics in the
West Midlands in the 20th Century
A Design for Coloured Ornamental
Glass, from a Chance Brothers Catalogue, 1853
Assessment is by means of six 4,000 word
essays (one per term) and a 12,000 word dissertation on
a subject which is chosen by students during their second
year of study. There is no written examination.
View of Stourbridge in the late eighteenth
century from "Perspective Views of the Market Towns
within the County of Worcestershire", Drawn and
Engraved by Thomas Sanders
Learn More
For further information see www.cbamh.bham.ac.uk/
or contact Dr Malcolm Dick, Department of Modern and Medieval
History, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT. Tel:
+44 (0)121 415 8253 or Email:
[email protected] (please mention the Black
Country Society when you make contact)
"The Forge Hammer", from
Richard S Chattock, "Sixteen Etchings Illustrative
of Scenes in the Coal and Iron District of South Staffordshire,
London and Birmingham, 1878"
