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BA English and History

Royal Holloway, University of London

Institution
Royal Holloway, University of London
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English and History
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
QV31
Typical offer
A-level ABB, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: ABB-BBB (Required subjects: A Level B in an essay-based subject We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,5,5 at Higher level or 32 points overall. Including a 5 in an essay-based subject at Higher Level

About this course

BA in English Language and Literature and History, a joint honours programme combining literary study with historical inquiry. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. History in the Making serves as the first-year foundation module, assessed through a group poster project and presentation. Creative Writing is available as an optional module.

Modules

  • Encountering Medieval Literature: From Beowulf to Chaucer
  • Shakespeare
  • Literature and Crisis
  • History in the Making
  • Gods, Men and Power: An Introduction to the Ancient World, from Homer to Mohammed
  • Republics, Kings and People: The Foundations of European Political Thought from Plato to Rousseau
  • From Renaissance to Revolutions: Europe and the World, 1500-1800
  • Conflict and Identity in Modern Europe, c. 1770 to 2000
  • From Mao to Bin Laden: Twentieth-Century Leaders in the Non-Western World
  • Rome to Renaissance: An Introduction to the Middle Ages
  • Middle English Poetry
  • Tolkien's Roots
  • Medieval Dream and Vision
  • Strange Fictions: Romance in the Middle Ages
  • Renaissance Literature
  • Intensive Shakespeare: Comedy, History, Tragedy
  • Drama and Witchcraft
  • Early Modern Bodies
  • Literature after the Conquest: 1066-1340
  • Victorian Literature
  • Romanticisms
  • Creative Writing: Structure and Style
  • Literature of the Fin de Siècle, 1883-1903
  • Contemporary Debates in Literary and Critical Theory
  • Modernisms
  • The British and the World: 1763-1900
  • The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
  • The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1000-1250
  • The Dark Continent: Europe, 1914-1948
  • The Tudor Monarchy 1485-1603
  • The Birth of Europe, 400-900
  • The Ottomans: The Muslim Empire in the Early Modern World, 1453-1789
  • Apocalypse Postponed: The Global Cold War 1945-98
  • Virtue and Power: Political Thought from Cicero to Machiavelli
  • Everyday Life in the Italian Renaissance
  • Vice, Virtue and the Victorians: British History 1837-1901
  • The United States in the Twentieth Century
  • The Holy Man: Sanctity and the Sacred in Historical Research
  • Mutiny to Modi: the Indian subcontinent from the C19th to the present
  • Rome and its Empire from Augustus to Commodus
  • Religion, Culture and Society in Europe, 1000-1250
  • The Sacred and Profane: Cultural Life in Renaissance Europe
  • Killing the King: England in an Age of Revolution, 1603-1714
  • Spanish and Portuguese Empires in the Americas, 1450-1650
  • Byzantine Twilight, 1200-1460
  • Safe European Home? Europe 1945-2000
  • Gorgeous Georgians?: Society, Culture and Crime, 1714-1830
  • The Shock of the New: European Culture and Society 1789-1905
  • The Making of the Modern Middle East, 1789-1939
  • American Economic Hegemony: Its Rise and Fall, 1941-2012
  • Modern British History 1914-1973
  • An Empire of Liberty? History of the USA 1787-1877
  • The Later Roman Empire
  • Byzantium and its Neighbours, 641-1081
  • London Urban Society, 1400-1600
  • Tudor Queenship: Mary I and Elizabeth I, 1553-1603
  • The Crusades and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1095-1291
  • Martin Luther King Jr and the Black Freedom Struggle
  • Modern Girls: Women in Twentieth-Century Britain
  • The Pursuit of Power: the Russian Empire in the Age of Reform and Revolution
  • Borderlands: Coexistence and Conflict, Democracy and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, 1912-1945
  • Modern Political Ideas
  • The Devil's Decade: Britain, America and the Great Slump, 1929-41
  • Genocide: A Global History
  • A History of Terrorism
  • Justice, Power and Religion in the Muslim World
  • Entangled Histories: The Interconnected Atlantic World, 1500-1800
  • Despots and Mullahs: Development and Popular Resistance in the Muslim World, 1910-1980
  • Waging Armageddon: WW1 in British Experience and Memory
  • The Vietnam War and the Cold War in Southeast Asia
  • Children of the Revolution? France from 1789 to the Great War
  • Art, Architecture & Power in the Roman World
  • The Age of Thatcher
  • From Mussolini to Trump: Nationalism, Far Right and Identity Politics in Europe and America, 1919-2016
  • Literature and the Digital
  • Independent Research Project
  • Ideas in Contemporary Fiction
  • On Murder
  • Advanced Shakespeare: The Problem Plays
  • Literature and Philosophy
  • Brexit, Literature and Discipline of English
  • James Joyce: Revolutions of the Word
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
  • Reading Like a Victorian
  • First World War Literature
  • The Girl in the Book
  • Children's Literature
  • The Post-Colonial Novel
  • Poetic Practice
  • Violence, Sex and Magic in Medieval Literature
  • Visual and Verbal in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • The New York Schools: Poetry, Painting, Composition
  • The 1930s British Fiction and the Road to War
  • Special Author: Virginia Woolf
  • Special Author: Chaucer
  • Special Author: Charles Dickens
  • Special Author: Herman Melville
  • Reading the Waste Land
  • Creative Writing Special Focus (Term 1)
  • English Dissertation
  • Literature, the Digital and the Creative Industries
  • The City and the Conqueror: The Fall of Constantinople (1453)
  • Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Southern France, c.1140 to c.1300
  • The Origins of Environmentalism: Critics of Modernity in Britain
  • Berlin: A European Metropolis in the Twentieth Century
  • A Clash of Powers: The United States, China and the Cold War
  • Stalinism
  • Christians and Pagans from Constantine to Augustine (AD 306-430)
  • Representations of Rule: Authority and Image from Henry VII to Charles II 1485-1660
  • Victorian Babylon: Life, Work and People in London, c.1840 to 1890
  • The Age of Terror: Terrorism from 1945 - Present
  • Britain on Camera: Photography, Film and Society, 1840-1965
  • Malcolm X: Islam and Black Protest in America
  • The Bomb - A History: Atomic Weaponry and Society in the 20th Century
  • Villa, Domus and Palace: Domestic Space and Social Identity in the Roman World
  • A Nation Torn Asunder: Civil War America
  • The Death of God: From the Enlightenment to Psychoanalysis
  • Reformers and Revolutionaries: Monasteries and Society in Europe, c.1050 – 1150
  • Explorers and Inventors in Classical and Late Antiquity
  • From Inverts to Perverts: Queer Life and Identity in Modern Britain