理学硕士，经济和社会史

该课程针对有特定主题且希望自己进行研究的学生。它提供结构化的研究培训，同时使您能够与主管协商，继续自己设计的研究项目。它既可以作为一个独立的研究计划，也可以为博士学位的进一步研究做准备。经济和社会历史通过运用包括经济学，社会学和社会人类学在内的社会科学方面的各种见解和方法，探讨了现代社会发展的历史过程。该方案侧重于各种历史背景下的民间社会，物质文化，青年，性别，犯罪，电影，经济增长和能源政策。爱丁堡在这一研究领域拥有一大批杰出的学者。在历史时期和世界范围内，他们的专业领域为您提供了广泛的选择范围。
We host one of the largest economic and social history research groupings in the UK. Staff research interests are wide-ranging, including the study of:_x000D_ economic development_x000D_ energy policy_x000D_ financial history_x000D_ globalisation_x000D_ urban history_x000D_ consumption_x000D_ material culture_x000D_ museums and collecting_x000D_ leisure_x000D_ religious belief_x000D_ popular culture_x000D_ medicine and disease_x000D_ gender_x000D_ sexuality_x000D_ the family_x000D_ The diversity of our research means we can support students’ economic and social history study in a vast range of time periods and geographical regions and from the early modern period to the present day._x000D_ Particular areas of expertise available for research are:_x000D_ culture and society in early modern Britain_x000D_ the material culture of gender in 18th-century Britain_x000D_ urban society and civil society in historical context_x000D_ cinema and society in modern Britain_x000D_ gender, crime and deviancy: Britain 1860–1960_x000D_ energy policy in Britain since 1920_x000D_ the economic history of China in the 20th century_x000D_ history of medicine and health in Britain since 1750_x000D_ The University’s economic and social historians host three research groups:_x000D_ material and visual cultures of the past_x000D_ enlightenment and popular culture_x000D_ economic and social history