BA History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB, including History or a humanities-based essay subject. Humanities-based essay subjects include: Classical Civilisation, English Language, English Literature, Geography, Philosophy, Politics, Religious Studies. IB: 30 points overall including 5 in History or a humanities-based essay subject at higher level.
About this course
BA in History. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. An introductory first year leads to optional modules spanning medieval to modern periods across Britain, Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and South Asia. A final-year dissertation module is available.
Modules
- Exploring Evidence
- History Now
- Making History and You: Practices and Possibilities
- Perspectives in History
- Arriving in Britain: A History of Immigration, 1685–2004
- Doomsday Dystopias: Nuclear Disaster in the Cold War Imagination
- Hunger and Famines in History
- Merlin: Magic and Prophecy
- Radicalism and Protest in Britain: From the Levellers to Black Lives Matter
- Everyday Life in a Medieval Town: Reading, 1100-1500
- Warfare in Early Modern Europe, c 1500-1715
- After Malthus: Sex, Society, Sustainability and the Politics of Population in the Long Nineteenth Century
- US Foreign Policy and the Environment: from Nixon to Obama
- The Crusades, 1095-1291
- Medieval Medicine
- Noise Annoys: British Youth Culture, Popular Music and Social Change, 1950s-90s
- From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Social History of Nineteenth Century USA
- Dissertation in History
- History Education
- Anarchy in the UK: Punk, Politics and Youth Culture in Britain, 1976-84
- Becoming a Revolutionary: The Old Regime and the French Revolution, 1787-1794
- Gender in Africa
- Heretics and Popes: Heresy and Persecution in the Medieval World
- Sexual Politics: Gender, Sex, and Feminism in Britain after 1918
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Empire, Slavery, and Society, 1550-1750
- The American Civil War
- Utopia: The Quest for a Perfect World
- Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
- The United States and the Cold War
- Battleaxes and Benchwarmers': Early Female MPs 1919-1931
- Religion and Politics in the Medieval West, 1050-1492
- Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
- Poor Law to Hostile Environment: Repatriation, Deportation and Exclusion from Britain 1800-2016
- From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and Eugenics in European Society, 1859-1945