Университет Винчестера, MA, Regional and Local Archaeology

The programme explores the development of the study of communities’ histories by examining theories and models used by archaeologists and/or historians, with a geographical focus which is predominantly on the Wessex region and the south of England in general, but many examples and case studies are drawn from other areas as appropriate; modules include: approaches to the local and regional past; research methodology; applied studies (archaeology only) include: the archaeology of space and place, medieval and vernacular buildings, church archaeology; special studies in archaeology include: the lower palaeolithic of Britain and western Europe, later prehistoric Wessex, the Celts, central southern England in the roman period, roman imperial Italy: regional perspectives, Italy in the first millennium BC: regions and cultures, Winchester and Southampton, 1000-1600, Mediterranean landscape archaeology; special studies in history include: the history of Anglo-Saxon Wessex, Normandy, 911-1204, the rulers of late medieval English provinces, late medieval demography, people, allegiance and ideas in southern England, 1640-1680, Hampshire and Sussex, c.1660-c.1830, English religion, 1660-1830, poverty in the south of England, 1770-1870, population and society in England, c.1800-1900, sport and leisure in Victorian Britain.