- Anderson, Benedict (2006), Imagined Communities, London. Selected chapters
- Benjamin, Walter, The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction [electronic resource]
- Booth, Wayne, Gregory Colomb and Joseph Williams, Joseph Bizup and William T. FitzGerald, The Craft of Research, Chicago, 2016, 4th edition Green, Martin (1986), Mountain of Truth, University Press of New England; Selected chapters
- Karlsson, Klas-Göran & Ulf Zander (Eds.) (2003) Echoes of the Holocaust – Historical Cultures in Contemporary Europe, Nordic Academic Press. Selected chapters.
- Kracauer, Siegfried, “The Hotel Lobby”, in Neil Leach (ed.) Rethinking Architecture, Routledge 1999, p.52-59.
- Levine, Caroline (2007), Provoking Democracy, Blackwell.
- Müller, Jan-Werner (ed.) (2002) Memory and Power in Post-War Europe – Studies in the presence of the past, Cambridge University Press (also available as e-book)
- Short introduction to Poster Presentations from Leicester University, http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/study-guides-pdfs/presentation-skills-pdfs/poster-presentations-v1%200.pdf
- Zimmer, Oliver (2003), Nationalism in Europe, 1890-1940, Palgrave (also available as e-book)
- Plus additional readings, no more than 600 pages.
Please note additional online resources may supplement/complement the core textbooks.