Sugggested Summer Reading for First Semester Subhonours Modules in School of History
Mediaeval History – First Level
Transformation and Crisis in the Early Mediaeval World (ME1003)
- Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350 (1993)
- Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom (2nd ed., 2003)
- George Holmes (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe (1988)
- Maurice Keen, Penguin History of Medieval Europe (1968)
- Julia Smith, Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History 500-1000 (2005)
- Chris Wickham, The Inheritance of Rome 400-1000 (2009)
Mediaeval History – Second Level
Europe in the High Middle Ages (ME2003)
- Malcolm Barber, The Two Cities (2nd ed.; London, 2004)
Modern History – First Level
The Early Modern Western World, c.1450 - c. 1700 (MO1007 – First Level)
- T.C.W. Blanning, The Eighteenth Century, 1688-1815 (Short Oxford History of Europe) (2000)
- A. Pettegree, Europe in the Sixteenth Century (Oxford, 2002)
- G. Parker, Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648 (Oxford, 2001 and other editions)
Modern History – Second Level
Europe and the World, 1850 – 2000 (MO2007 – Second Level)
- J. Jackson (ed.): Europe, 1900-1945 (2002)
- T. Judt: Post-War. A History of Europe since 1945 (2007)
- Fulbrook (ed.): Europe since 1945 (2001)
- M. Mazower: Dark Continent. Europe's 20th Century (1998)
- Tim Blanning, (ed.)The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789-1914 (2000)
- Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century (1999)