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Click here to find out about our MLitt in Cultural History, a one-year taught postgraduate programme (also available as a Postgraduate Diploma). This degree introduces students to the range of topics and methodologies embraced by cultural history, provides a thorough grounding in research methods and skills, and gives students the opportunity to conduct a research project of their own.
For the prospective postgraduate, Aberdeen offers unrivalled opportunities for conducting research in cultural history. It is internationally renowned as a research centre, boasting some of the finest collections of books, manuscripts, and pamphlets in the English-speaking world (click here). All the archival images on these web-pages are from the University's own collections. History of science, technology, and medicine is a particular strength, enhanced by extensive collections in the University's museums, notably the Marischal Museum. Much of our impressive collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century periodicals can be browsed on open-access shelves, enabling students to engage directly with key research materials.
An interdisciplinary research community is maintained by the large number of staff in the College of Arts and Social Sciences with expertise in cultural history. Staff offer supervision and training for the research degrees of MLitt, Postgraduate Diploma, MPhil, and PhD. We are able to offer all postgraduates study space and may be able to help students financially through paid employment and awards through the College of Arts and Social Sciences. Cultural history staff have an excellent record of postgraduate supervision, and there is an active community of registered research students in the College. We also host a thriving interdisciplinary programme of cultural history events. These include talks, seminars, conferences, and field-trips organized by staff or by the student-run Cultural History Society. They enable students to broaden their learning experience and engage and socialize with other members of the academic community.
For comments by former and current postgraduates click here.
For further information about postgraduate study in History and Cultural History, click here.
Cultural history shares common ground with a number of other disciplines, including mainstream history, literary and film studies, anthropology, sociology, ethnography, philosophy, and the histories of art, music, religions, and science. Many of the finest living cultural historians are better known as specialists in one or another of these longer-established disciplines. Cultural history, in other words, is fundamentally interdisciplinary.
These connections are enhanced at Aberdeen, where all these disciplines are housed in a single College of Arts and Social Sciences, bringing together an impressive body of staff conducting cutting-edge research in many different aspects of cultural history. For a list of these staff members, click here. This thriving research culture is bound together by a number of interdisciplinary research centres.
The University of Aberdeen, the third oldest in Scotland, is an ancient campus university at the hub of Scotland's beautiful Grampian region. Originally it was two universities: King's College, founded in 1495, and Marischal College, founded in 1593. These were united in 1860 to form the University of Aberdeen - which was then in the unique position of being able to celebrate its 400th anniversary in 1993 and its 500th in 1995!
Only a short drive from some of Scotland's most majestic mountain ranges and wildernesses, as well as the quiet beauty of Royal Deeside, Aberdeen itself is one of the most dynamic small cities in Europe. The city is at the heart of Scotland's North Sea oil development, making it a truly international community, combining in one place the old and the new. Students can enjoy the nightlife of Aberdeen's vibrant city-centre, and relax and study in the tranquil splendour of ancient Old Aberdeen - a genuinely friendly campus with half a millennium of cutting-edge scholarship behind it. Those with more active interests can enjoy Aberdeen's sports facilities and extensive beaches, as well as unrivalled opportunities for skiing, hillwalking and mountain-climbing. The surrounding countryside boasts an unrivalled wealth of ancient monuments, from castles and palaces to prehistoric hillforts and stone circles (of which there are more here, per square mile, than anywhere else in the world). Other centres of Scottish culture and history, such as Edinburgh, Inverness and St. Andrews, are within easy reach by both road and rail. Travel to Europe is easy, with direct flights from Aberdeen airport to London, Amsterdam, and many other destinations.
