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History
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Browse our history modules to explore events, societies, and ideas across time and place. Learn to analyse sources, question narratives, and understand change.
History Modules
OU level 1
Discovering the arts and humanities (A111)OU level 1
OU level 2
Early modern Europe: society and culture c.1500-1780 (A223)OU level 2
The British Isles and the modern world, 1789–1914 (A225)OU level 2
OU level 3
Empires: power, resistance, legacies (A328)OU level 3
Europe 1914–2014: the remaking of a continent (A337)OU level 3
International relations: people, power and change (D322)OU level 3
The making of Welsh history (A329)OU level 3
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Arts and languages Access module (Y031)Access
Arts and languages Access module: fast track (YXFT031)Access
