Everyday Life in Early Modern Scotland module (HY42060)

This module is about finding the everyday in unexpected places. You will explores themes of everyday life including gender, sexuality, food, clothing, leisure and recreation, poverty and illness, religion and the supernatural, emotions, the senses, and crime. You will use various original sources to extract information to build up a picture of remarkable detail and set it in its historical and intellectual context.

What you will learn

In this module you will:

• read about how historians have portrayed the history of everyday life
• learn to read sources 'against the grain' to discover what they can reveal about everyday life
• develop skills in source analysis, presentation and writing

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• appreciate the breadth and depth of the history of everyday life
• understand how to use historical sources in new ways to find new insights into the past
• devise, develop and plan your own ideas for a research project

Assignments / assessment

• presentation 10 minutes (20%)
• historiographical exercise 2,500 words (30%)
• research essay 4,000 words (50%)

This module does not have a final exam.

Teaching methods / timetable

• seminars
  • weekly one-hour seminar
• workshops
  • weekly two-hour workshop, focusing mainly on primary sources but also used for assessed presentations