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How Britain and Scotland have been written—method, archives, and argument, not a tourist timeline.
Online or on campus
Historiography is the argument about the argument. This MA starts there: Whig stories, nationalist stories, social history, and the sources that refuse them. You will write essays that cite how a generation of historians framed the Union or the industrial Central Belt, and you will say what a digitised catalogue still hides. Edinburgh is a research city and a tourist script. Faculty will mark whether you can use the city without becoming a tour guide. Online students work with lawful digital surrogates and the library-parity problem this university actually runs. The award does not register you to teach in schools. Capstones are historiographical dissertations or equivalent extended essays with honest source limits. University of Brigant will not sell a tourist timeline of Scotland. You will argue about Union, empire, class, and how Gaelic and Scots sources have been used or ignored, and you will state what a digitised catalogue still hides. Identity-checked assessment applies. The MA does not confer QTS. Edinburgh is a research city and a scripted Old Town; faculty mark whether you can use the former without becoming the latter. MA British and Scottish Historiography is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Whig, Marxist, and Cultural Turns through Whig, Marxist, and Cultural Turns; Empire, Race, and the Four Nations Problem; Gender and the Archive of the Unspectacular; Union, Enlightenment, and Industrial Scotland; Gaelic, Scots, and English as Historical Sources; Religion, Class, and the Central Belt, and finish on Writing for Examination and Publication Literacy. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Write historiographical essays that name schools of interpretation Use Scottish and British primary-source literacy with digital limits stated Argue without collapsing into heritage marketing Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
Thirty-six credits: British historiographical traditions, Scottish debates and sources, archives and digital limits, and a supervised extended essay. Dual pathway. Non-QTS marketing.
Study online
Online tuition is free. Online examinations are free. There is no exam fee for online study.
On-campus study
Prefer to learn at our Edinburgh campus? Campus tuition and campus examinations are charged. The published campus price is on each programme page.
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB941 | Whig, Marxist, and Cultural Turns Whig, Marxist, and Cultural Turns (UOB941) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Whig, Marxist, and Cultural Turns as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB942 | Empire, Race, and the Four Nations Problem Empire, Race, and the Four Nations Problem (UOB942) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Empire, Race, and the Four Nations Problem as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB943 | Gender and the Archive of the Unspectacular Gender and the Archive of the Unspectacular (UOB943) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Gender and the Archive of the Unspectacular as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB945 | Union, Enlightenment, and Industrial Scotland Union, Enlightenment, and Industrial Scotland (UOB945) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Union, Enlightenment, and Industrial Scotland as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB946 | Gaelic, Scots, and English as Historical Sources Gaelic, Scots, and English as Historical Sources (UOB946) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Gaelic, Scots, and English as Historical Sources as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB947 | Religion, Class, and the Central Belt Religion, Class, and the Central Belt (UOB947) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Religion, Class, and the Central Belt as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB949 | Archives, Digitisation, and What Remains Closed Archives, Digitisation, and What Remains Closed (UOB949) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Archives, Digitisation, and What Remains Closed as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB950 | Material Culture without Museum Theatre Material Culture without Museum Theatre (UOB950) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Material Culture without Museum Theatre as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB951 | Public History, Festivals, and Scholarly Duty Public History, Festivals, and Scholarly Duty (UOB951) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Public History, Festivals, and Scholarly Duty as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| UOB953 | Historiographical Research Design Historiographical Research Design (UOB953) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Historiographical Research Design as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB954 | Methods and Ethics for Historical Inquiry Methods and Ethics for Historical Inquiry (UOB954) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Methods and Ethics for Historical Inquiry as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
| UOB955 | Writing for Examination and Publication Literacy Writing for Examination and Publication Literacy (UOB955) is a 3-credit course on MA British and Scottish Historiography, with 30 notional learning hours. By the end, students can apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result, using Writing for Examination and Publication Literacy as the working context rather than a generic management example. The course is taught in three movements. First, students establish the terms and the decision the course is about. Second, they apply the method to a case, dataset, text, or design and compare it with a weaker alternative. Third, they revise the work after feedback and state what the conclusion cannot support. Preparation uses a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. Seminar time is for the decision, not for reading the materials aloud. Assessment is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. A pass requires a clear method, evidence a marker can check, and an explicit limit. Credit is not awarded for summary alone.
| 3 · 30 h |
Modules are assessed through a published mix of coursework, applied projects, and examinations. Exam windows are announced in advance so students in other time zones are not forced into overnight sittings. Alternative arrangements are available where documented.
The published duration is 18 months. Teaching language: English (dual pathway: Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online; one academic standard). Actual time-to-complete depends on mode and any recognised prior learning.
You may study this award fully online from your country, or — where published — on campus at Brigant. Online study does not require a student visa. Campus study may.
Degree tuition for this award is published as £0 / tuition-free on the online pathway. Examination or administrative fees may apply at checkout — never an annual tuition invoice. Check the Fees page for any extras.
Requirements are grouped on this page (academic, English, documents). Equivalent qualifications are considered. English may be waived after prior English-medium study.
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