BA English and History
Entry requirements
A level: ABB at A-level including English (Language, Literature or combined)
About this course
BA in English and History. Core topics include research methods and historical research. In the first and second years, time is divided equally between English and History modules, with the third year offering the opportunity to specialise in a preferred area. The special collections include manuscripts and historical books dating back to the 12th century.
Modules
- Dissertation (English)
- Science Fiction: Exploring Space and Time
- The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
- Watching the Detectives: Crime on the Page and Screen
- Writing Prose Fiction
- Sport and the British
- You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
- The Making of a Nation: India and the British Empire 1857-1947
- Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
- Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
- The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World 1830-1914
- The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968
- The Death Penalty and its Abolition: A Global History
- After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990
- Cultures of Struggle and Liberation: Twentieth Century Southern Africa
- The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- History Dissertation
- Renaissance Literature from Utopia to Paradise Lost
- Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Sport and the British
- You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
- Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
- The Making of a Nation: India and the British Empire 1857-1947
- Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
- Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
- The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
- The Other in American Fiction and Film
- The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature
- Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations
- Tragedy
- Writing for Laughs
- Twenty-First Century Global Literature
- Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
- Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
- Writing Matters
- Making History
- Global History: Connections and Cultures in a Changing World, 1750 to the present
- Modern Britain: c1700-Present
- Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
- Film and Literature
- Feminist Fiction
- Europe 1861-1991: Emancipation and Subjugation
- With Liberty and Justice for All? US History since 1776
- Critical Perspectives 1
- The Shock of the Modern
- Medieval and Early Modern Europe: People, Power, Faith, and Culture
- Advanced Creative Writing Skills
- Global Voices and the Publishing Industry
- Arts Journalism
- English and Education
- Your Career and Other Stories
- Modern Literature from Conrad to Orwell
- Contemporary Literature from 1945 to Now
- Becoming the Historical Researcher
- The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
- Global Cities
- Jack-the-Ripper: Crime, Popular Culture and Policing in Victorian Times
- Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
- History in the Classroom
- Working with History: The Heritage Field Project
- World's End: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Environmental Crises