2022/23
Course image HI2H7:Measuring Society: social sciences and social problems in twentieth-century Britain 2022/23
 
Course image HI2H9:Surveillance States: Biometrics from the Border to the Bathroom 2022/23

You are being watched and measured. And you are not alone. For over a century, a global web of state, commercial, and individual surveillance has observed and measured an ever-widening variety of bodies, situations, and spaces. As our bodies have become legible to authorities and to ourselves, they have come to serve as identity documents, markers of kinship, and signs of entitlement or otherness. This module will explore the ways in which new ideas, knowledge and technologies have enabled states, societies and individuals to identify and assess their citizens, police their borders, and generate self-knowledge. From the invention of the ‘average man’ in the 19th century to the rise of home DNA testing kits and biometric passports, we will look at what it means to ‘measure up’ in modern society, and ask: how, when and where should our bodies be subjected to measurement, by whom, and for what purposes? Case studies will include fingerprinting, DNA profiling, and the all-too-familiar bathroom scale; others will be selected by students. 

 
Course image HI2J1:Sovereignty and Statehood in Modern History 2022/23
 
Course image HI2J5:United in diversity? A history of Europe since 1945 - Brussels Residential Module 2022/23
 
Course image HI3G5: Conquest, Conflict and Co-existence: Crusading and the Crusader Kingdoms 2022/23
 
Course image HI3G7:Amity, Antagonism and Appeasement: Anglo-German Encounters, 1871-1945 2022/23
 
Course image HI3G9: Venice in the Renaissance 2022/23
 
Course image HI3H6:Postwar: Aftermaths of World War II 2022/23
 
Course image HI3H7: Foreign Bodies, Contagious Communities: Migration in the Modern World 2022/23
 
Course image HI3J3: Arts and Society in Early Modern Europe 2022/23
 
Course image HI3J9: Whiteness: An American History 2022/23
 
Course image HI3K2: A Global History of Travel: Odyssey to Aeroplane 2022/23
 
Course image HI3K4: Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe 2022/23
 
Course image HI3K6: India And The Problem of Postcolonial Democracy: A History Of Events 2022/23
 
Course image HI3S2: Dissertation 2022/23
 
Course image HI3S3: China travel: Seeing the Chinese empire through travellers¿ eyes 2022/23
 
Course image HI3S6: Science, Technology, and Global Politics, 1900 to Present 2022/23
 
Course image HI3S8: Statues must fall? Remembering and forgetting slavery in the Atlantic world 2022/23
 
Course image HI3S9:Space, Place and Movement in Atlantic Slave Societies: Brazil, Cuba, and the US, 1791-1888 2022/23
 
Course image HI3T2:Empire, environment and representations: The British and the Making of the Modern Middle East 2022/23