If you've enjoyed learning about all things medieval, we've a selection of courses relating to history, to take your interest further.

Short courses
Heritage, whose heritage? (A180)
This online-taught course refers to the relationship that we have to a heritage managed largely by institutions and public organisations. It will help you to identify and understand the key issues affecting heritage decision-making and the debates around what to do with objects, buildings and places associated with public and private memories, myths and traditions.

Start writing essays (A172)
This short online-taught course will help you to develop as an essay writer, practise, improve and reflect on a range of core skills and techniques, and realise your potential as a student.

Start writing family history (A173)
This short online-taught course will help you to interpret and write about family history by showing you how to use and critically analyse a range of written, statistical, visual and oral sources, and how to reflect on a range of core skills in historical research.

Level 1 course
The Arts: past and present - first presentation Oct 2008 (AA100)
This course introduces you to a range of subject areas, including history, art history, philosophy, classics, history of science, religious studies, music and English. Through the books ‘Reputations’ and ‘Tradition and Dissent’, you’ll learn key skills necessary to study arts subjects at university level. The second half of the course takes an interdisciplinary approach, where two or more subjects join together to address a shared topic, through the books ‘Cultural Encounters’ and ‘Place and Leisure’.

Level 2 course
Exploring history: medieval to modern, 1400-1900 (A200)
This course is a varied and wide-ranging introduction to historical study and will teach you the techniques of professional historians. You’ll study some of the people, places and events that were significant in the development of the modern western European and Atlantic world through six case-study periods and three broad themes of historical methodology. You’ll learn how to interpret original material such as documents (from Acts of Parliament to private letters) and visual sources (from buildings and sculpture to photographs and maps), and use them in your work.