BA English Literature and History
Entry requirements
A level: A*AA including History and English Literature (or English Language & Literature)
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and History. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. Students undertake tutorials in English literature alongside practical historical study.
Modules
- Literature and History
- English Literature Tutorials
- History in Practice
- A Global Nation: Power, Politics, and Struggle Across the American Century, 1870-2020
- Constructing Archaic Greek History
- From Republic to Empire: Introduction to Roman History, Society & Culture 218-31BC
- The Odyssey
- Cities and Citizens
- Discoveries and Discoverers: Sights and Sites
- Introduction to the History and Culture of Pharaonic Egypt
- Decoding Inequality: Reimagining Digital Culture
- Reading Literature
- Mapping the Medieval
- Theory and Text
- Modern China: from the Opium Wars to the Olympic Games
- Histories of the Islamic World
- Capitalism in Historical Perspective: 1700-1913
- Imperial Nation: Empire and the Making of Modern Britain, 1783-1902
- An Introduction to the Medieval World
- Forging a New World: Europe c.1450-1750
- States, Nations and Empires. Europe, c.1750-1914
- ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: Black and South Asian British Histories
- Histories of Information
- Science & the Modern World
- Bodies in History: An introduction to the History of Medicine
- Science and the Modern World (20 Credits)
- Japanese History and Civilisation
- Empire and Culture in East Asia
- Exploring Enterprise
- Entrepreneurial Skills
- The History and Sociopolitics of Palestine/Israel (1882-1967)
- Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
- History and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
- Introduction to Judaism
- Bible in Ancient and Modern Worlds
- The Making of Modern Russia: 1552-1917
- Standing on The Shoulders of Giants: Foundations for Study in The Arts
- Humanities in Public: The Politics and Value(s) of Knowledge
- American Literature and Social Criticism, 1900-Present
- Twentieth Century African American Literature
- The Conquering Hero: The Life, Times and Legacy of Alexander The Great
- The Roman Empire 31BC - AD313 Rome's Golden Age
- Politics and Society in Classical Greece
- Roman Women in 22 Objects
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Chaucer: Texts, Contexts, Conflicts
- Shakespeare
- Gender, Sexuality and the Body: Theories and Histories
- Writing, Identity and Nation
- Postcolonial World Literatures
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Medieval Metamorphoses
- Renaissance Literature
- Old English: Writing the Unreadable Past
- Satire and Sentiment: British Literature, 1660–1820
- Modernism
- Romanticism (1776 - 1832)
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Victorian Literature
- Weimar Culture? Art, Film and Politics in Germany, 1918-33
- Making of the Modern Mind: European Intellectual History in a Global Context
- Winds of Change: Politics, Society and Culture in Britain, 1899 -1990
- Independent Research Project
- Late Imperial China: the Great Wall and Beyond
- The Cultural History of Modern War
- Colonial Encounters: Race, Violence, and the Making of the Modern World
- The Stuff of History: Objects Across Borders, 1500-1800
- Back to the Future: The Uses and Abuses of History
- Histories of the Islamic World
- Capitalism in Historical Perspective: 1700-1913
- A Transnational History of Europe in the Short Twentieth Century, c.1917-1991
- Revolutionary Cities: The Urban World of the Middle Ages
- From Cholera to COVID-19: A Global History of Epidemics
- The Crisis of Nature: Issues in Environmental History
- In Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science Fiction in Literature and Film.
- Aesthetics and Politics of Italian Fascism
- The Italian Renaissance
- Themes in the Histories of Arab and Jewish Nationalisms
- Religion, Culture and Gender
- End of the World and Apocalypticism
- 100 Years of Revolution: from Lenin's Soviet Union to Putin's Russia
- The Revolutions of 1989 and their Aftermaths: Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
- Love American Style
- Climate Change & Culture Wars
- American Hauntings
- Long Essay
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Culture and Conflict: Neoliberalism and Cultural Production
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Irish Fiction Since 1990
- Radical Turns: Culture and Politics in the 1930s
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary Global Novel
- Eros: Love and Desire in Victorian Poetry
- The History of the Book in Early Modern England
- Apocalypse: Early Modern Imaginings
- Queer Forms: Objects and Animals in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- Hypercontemporary Queer and Trans Fiction
- Haunting the Stage: The Supernatural in Early Modern Drama
- Things that Talk: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary British Novel
- British Fiction and Empire in the Twentieth Century
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction
- Romantic Venice
- Co-operation, Competition, and Happiness: Dangerous Ideas in the Nineteenth Century
- Crime and Contemporary Culture
- Vital Matters: Medieval Ecologies
- Humans and other Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Women’s Writing, Citizenship, and Political Radicalism
- Literary and Sexual Experimentalism Between the Wars
- Contemporary South Asian Literatures
- Literary Landscapes
- Imaginations of the Future: People, Earth and Power
- Interdisciplinary Literature and Theology: Empathy, Ethics, Liberation
- Culture and Society in Germany 1871-1918
- 'A Nation In The Making': India, 1800-1947
- History Dissertation
- Wealth and Welfare: Reconceptualising British Economy and Society between 1832 and 1942
- China and the West: the Age of Empire and Beyond
- Heroes and Holy Men: The Irish Sea World in the Viking Age, c. 780-1100
- The Holocaust: History, Historiography, Memory
- The Comparative and Transnational History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
- John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1960s
- Defining the Deviant: Crime and British Society, 1888-2000
- The Aftermath of War in France, Britain and Germany: Violence and Reconstruction after WW1 and WW2
- Ceaseless Revolution: France, 1781-1871
- The Black Freedom Movement, 1955-1975
- Material Encounters in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800
- 'Brains and Numbers': Intellectual Life in Victorian Britain
- Pirates: The Sea, The Empire and The Other
- Becoming Christian in The Early Middle Ages
- The Normans and the Kingdom of Sicily in the Mediterranean World (1000-1200)
- From New Left to New Times: Socialist Ideas in Post-War Britain
- Black Britain: Power, Neighbourhoods and the Everyday, 1948-1990
- Africa and Development: A Political History of the Social Sciences
- Cultural Entanglements: Life and Death in Colonial America
- The Anglo-American Connection & National Identity in the long C19: Race, Reform & National Identity
- Contesting Hitler's Empire:Resistance,Collaboration,and Mass Violence in Occupied Europe (1939–1945)
- Vanished: Histories of Extinction from the Mammoth to Extinction Rebellion
- Global China in the Second World War
- Democracy and Authoritarianism in Latin America’s Twentieth Century
- Islam in China
- The Nuclear Age: Global Nuclear Threats from Hiroshima to Today
- From Sherlock Holmes to CSI: a History of Forensic Science and Medicine
- Climate Change & Society
- Madness and Society
- Tools and Techniques for Enterprise
- Tools & Techniques for Enterprise
- Enterprise Feasibility
- Culture, Media and Politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia
- History of the Spanish Atlantic World: Empire, Trade, War