BA History
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 35 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in History, a history degree centred on the study of past societies, global change, and human culture. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students benefit from access to specialist archive resources and opportunities for placements in heritage organisations. The first year covers foundational training through modules such as Handling Historical Evidence, Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, Revolutions in History, Controversy in History, and Modern Worlds. The second year examines major transformations through Who Makes History?, War and Transformation, and Human and Environment. In the final year, students complete a compulsory History Dissertation alongside core study in The Use and Abuse of History. Across the course, optional modules allow students to explore diverse periods and themes, ranging from political history and conflict to culture and environment, complemented by optional discovery modules spanning interdisciplinary topics.
Modules
- Handling Historical Evidence
- Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
- Revolutions in History
- Controversy in History
- Modern Worlds
- Doing Criminology: How We Know About Crime
- Global Challenges in World Politics
- English across Space and Time
- History of Philosophy: Ideas that Shaped the West
- Parties, Populism and Protest
- Thinking Sociologically
- Who Makes History?
- War and Transformation
- Human and Environment
- Body, Mind and Society
- Death
- Britain in the 20th Century
- Inventing Rights
- Employability, Purpose and Social Impact (Discovery module)
- Global Challenges and Collaborative Solutions (Discovery module)
- Taking an Idea and Making it Happen (Discovery module)
- The Use and Abuse of History
- History Dissertation
- A Global History of the Cold War
- Advertising and Consumerism in Britain, 1853-1960
- Big Data and Dead People: Digital Histories of Crime, Justice and Punishment, 1760-1925
- Dangerous Thoughts': Soviet Dissent, Human Rights and the Cold War
- Fascism, Revolution and War in Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
- Forging India: South Asia from Empire to Nation, 1829-1964
- From Balfour to Brexit: Britain as a Great Power since 1914
- From Rebellion to Revolution: The War for the Throne, 1199-1265
- Gender Identities in the People's War: Experiences, Representations and Memories
- Intelligent Design? Science, Religion and the Idea of Design in Nature, 1450-1800
- Paradise Lost: Colonisation and the Jamaican Environment, 1655-1838
- Participation, Splendour and Violence: The Italian City-States, c.1100-1350
- Victorian Bodies: Sex, Gender, Race and Power in Global Britain
- Queer Futures (Discovery module)
- People Power and Collective Action (Discovery module)
- Confronting the Climate Crisis (Discovery module)
- Artistic Fusions (Discovery module)