BA History
Entry requirements
A-Level: AAB IB: 34/665 BTEC: DDD
About this course
BA in History, a history degree covering 1,500 years of human development across global societies. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The curriculum leverages institutional strengths in Early Modern British and Modern European history alongside specialist themes such as power, identity, knowledge, and resources. The first year establishes foundational skills through compulsory modules including Becoming a Historian: Core, Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History, and Understanding Modern History, alongside optional modules like Climate Emergency! An Introduction to Environmental Arts and Humanities and Sources and Skills: Modern. The second year shifts focus to historiography and digital applications via compulsory modules such as Uses of the Past and Doing History in the Digital Age. Students can further tailor their studies through numerous optional modules addressing specific historical periods and themes, including Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England, Strategy and Success in the Second World War, and Creating an American Empire: From Westward Expansion to Colonial Empire.
Modules
- Becoming a Historian: Core
- Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History
- Understanding Modern History
- Climate Emergency! An Introduction to Environmental Arts and Humanities
- Becoming a Historian: Extended
- Sources and Skills: Modern
- Sources and Skills: Early Modern
- Sources and Skills: Medieval
- Uses of the Past
- Doing History in the Digital Age
- Adventures in Environmental Arts and Humanities
- Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe
- Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England
- From Gallows to ASBOs: Crime, Punishment, and Society in Britain and Ireland
- Strategy and Success in the Second World War
- Vikings and Other Invaders: Europe under Siege in in the Tenth Century
- Beyond Bridgerton: A Peoples' History of Britain, 1688-1834
- Creating an American Empire: From Westward Expansion to Colonial Empire
- Hunger Games: Poverty, Famine, and Environment
- Russia’s Empires: Societies, Peoples and Cultures
- Beyond the Tudors: Europe’s Worldview Transformed c.1500-1600