This programme enables students to extend and develop their research skills and explore research issues across a broad range of periods. The flexible programme structure and small-group, research-led teaching of modules facilitates specialisation in those areas of greatest interest for students, while acquainting them with a relevant range of skills and conceptual frameworks to enhance their study, such as the nature of archival study, genre and textuality, the relationship between print and manuscript, interdisciplinary, and questions of cultural and political context. All taught modules are assessed by written work of between 3,000 words (for a 15-credit module) and 6,000 words (for a 30-credit module), which is set towards the end of the semester in which the module is taught. Our postgraduate students move into an extraordinarily wide range of careers following their time in the School.