Our World History & Cultures MA offers you the chance to study the history of global interaction, and of the transnational histories of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Students on the MA can study global processes such as the history of empires or focus of particular continent(s). Kings College London has been central to the history of global interaction for a century. From the 1920s it was one of the UKs major centres for British imperial history. In more recent decades has become a leading international centre in the fields of Global and Transnational History. As well as providing training in historical research methods, and global and transnational history, our course offers you the opportunity to personalise your degree by choosing optional modules offered by other departments at Kings or from available MA courses at our London partner institutions (which include UCL, Queen Mary and Royal Holloway). Students on the degree have followed careers in academia, education more broadly, journalism, finance, politics and cultural sectors.

Key benefits

• One of the best history departments in the world, ranked 3rd in the UK for Research Power (REF 2021) and in the top 10 History departments in Europe (QS World University Rankings 2024).
• Kings graduates enjoy one of the best employment rates and starting salaries in the UK. Ranked 7th in the UK for graduate employability (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024).
• Global coverage, with modules taught on all populated continents. Kings history department offers perhaps the broadest geographical coverage of any history department in the UK, with key concentrations in the history of South Asia, Australia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America, as well as Europe.
• One of the most comprehensive coverage of the history of the European seaborne empires of any university in the UK and has key figures in the study of South Asia, Australia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Our central London location offers students unrivalled access to world-class museums, collections, archives and libraries as well as easy access to resources in Europe.

Employability

Our course will give you skills that will allow you to excel in academia and in your professional life. Many students coming out of this MA have gone on to fully-funded PhD studentships at Kings, UCL, Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton and other universities, and others have found careers in a diverse range of fields, such as the civil and foreign services, education, journalism, finance, politics and cultural sectors.