The Centre for Local and Regional History offers an exciting and varied programme of evening-taught local history and archaeology modules for members of the general public. These are at level one (the equivalent of first-year undergraduate level) and require no formal entry qualifications. Students can take one or more of the modules simply for enjoyment without completing any coursework. Students who wish to obtain the Certificate of Continuing Education in Local Historical Studies must complete (successfully) assessed coursework on four of the modules. More details about the scheme and the modules available.
The MA can be taken over one-year full-time or two years part-time; it can also be taken by credit accumulation over three, four or five years. Students take four taught modules and write a dissertation based on a theme in the field of local, community and/or family history of 20,000 words.
Applicants for the MA should normally hold, or expect to hold, and upper second-class honours degree in History or an associated discipline, or an equivalent international qualification. Sometimes it is possible to admit someone without such a qualification, especially onto the Postgraduate Certificate scheme.
The Postgraduate Certificate is essentially the MA scheme without the dissertation. Postgraduate Certificate students who achieve high enough grades on the taught modules can be given permission to transfer onto the MA and to write the dissertation if they so wish.
For more details of the MA and Postgraduate Certificate in Local, Community and Family History, see Taught Degrees.
Dissertations completed in local and regional history as part of the taught course MA:
Title and Supervisor
Name
Year
Silver End: Voices from the Guv’nor’s village
Susan King
1995
The Culture and Politics of War Relief in Essex 1642-1662
David Appleby
1996
A study of church seating in Essex, 1580-1640
Amanda Flather
The local government question in England, c.1884-1906. The case of East Suffolk: Authority institutionalised or transformed?
Andrew Jukes
The origins, nature and popularity of ceremonialism in Essex, c.1628-c.1645
Mary-Millicent Egan
1997
Political Society in the Late-Victorian Borough: The case of Colchester 1868-1892
J.S. Egan
The regulation of Shenfield Common: Landscape, community and masculinity in late-Victorian Shenfield and Brentwood
Jane Ponder
1998
Interaction within the rural society of West Essex, 1800-1850: The case of Capel Cure, the Blake Hall Estate and the Chipping Ongar District
Peter J. Hall-Garrett
2000
A study of 17th-century trade tokens with special reference to Colchester and North Essex
Christopher Whittell
2004
The churchmanship of Dr Thomas Plume (1630-1704): A study of a career in the Restoration Church of England
Robert Anthony Doe
2005
The purge of Cambridgeshire’s ‘scandalous’ ministers, 1644-1645: Top down or bottom up?
Graham Hart
2008
‘Britain’s oldest recorded town’: History and the creation of civic memory in Edwardian Colchester
Kylie Jones
The turning tide. A study into the changes in household size and structure in Wivenhoe and Rowhedge, 1851-1901
Amanda Wilkinson
For all enquiries about the programmes outlined above, please contact the Graduate Administrator:
Department of History University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ Tel: 01206 872190 e-mail: gsechist@essex.ac.uk
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