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DIY History (V1503)

15 credits, Level 6

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll consider how we engage with history beyond the 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ setting. We’ll flip the relationship between academic and public history, and ask what we might learn from history practiced as a community and publicly shared resource.

Through hands-on experimentation with forms of DIY media practice such as zine making and meme creation, we’ll explore how they remake relations between past and present. We’ll consider the role of community and subcultural archiving in recording and disseminating local, grassroots and ephemeral histories. We’ll examine how these histories then connect us with regional, national and global stories.

The module will end by applying our collective learning to a collaborative project with community and heritage partners beyond the 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ. You’ll gain crucial experience of history as a means to build lives, careers and communities.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• American Studies and History (with a study abroad year) BA
• English and History BA
• History BA
• History and Anthropology BA
• History and International Relations BA
• History and Philosophy BA
• History and Politics BA
• History and Sociology BA