Modern history
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Modern history describes the history of the Modern Times, the era after the Middle Ages.
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[edit] Modernity
The concepts and ideas developed since then are part of Modernity. Modern history may contain references to the history of Early modern Europe from the turn of the 15th century until the late 18th century, but generally refers to the history of the world since the advent of the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The term should not be confused with modernism, a late 19th and early 20th century movement in art.
[edit] As a subject
Although many of the subjects of modern history coincide with that of standard history, the subject is taught in some parts of the world. A-level is the lowest tier of education at which modern history is taught in the UK, and students can also choose the subject at University. The material covered includes from the mid-18th century, to analysis of the present day. Virtually all colleges and sixth forms that do teach modern history do it alongside standard history; very few teach the subject exclusively.
[edit] Oxford
At the University of Oxford 'Modern History' has a somewhat different meaning. The contrast is not with the Middle Ages but with Antiquity. The earliest period that can be studied in the Final Honour School of Modern History begins in 285.[1]