Skills you'll gain

There are 6 modules in this course

Once you have completed this course we hope you will be equipped to: Appreciate the significance of photographs as historical evidence in the twentieth century. Understand the limitations of the medium, and how we can attribute meaning to these individual records of 'one moment in time' while taking into account the circumstances in which any particular image was taken. Understand how individuals and institutions have looked to manipulate images to their own ends – through alteration and/or censorship – and what that meant to contemporary interpretation, as well as subsequent historical interpretation. Put individual images into a wider context, and in particular with reference to history written, or portrayed, beyond academia: public history. Do be aware that part of the contents of this course regard images and depiction of war. Real wars and real images.

Images and History in the Twentieth Century

The Air-Brushing of History: Stalin and Falsification

Photojournalism, Authenticity and Matters of Public Acceptability: The Battle of Mogadishu

The Power of the Image: Mount Suribachi, 1945

From Page to Screen: Film as Public History

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