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BA History

Royal Holloway, University of London

Institution
Royal Holloway, University of London
Level
undergraduate
Subject
History
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
V100
Typical offer
A-level ABB, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: ABB-BBB (Required subjects: We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,5,5 at Higher level or 32 points overall.

About this course

BA in History. Core topics include research methods, historical research, and critical and analytical thinking. The programme begins with a first-year foundation module exploring global historical themes and approaches. Students complete an 8,000-word dissertation based on independent primary source research in their final year.

Modules

  • History in the Making
  • Gods, Men and Power: An Introduction to the Ancient World, from Homer to Mohammed
  • Rome to Renaissance: An Introduction to the Middle Ages
  • 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
  • World City: A History of London from Roman to Contemporary Times
  • Concepts in History
  • The Holy Man: Sanctity and the Sacred in Historical Research
  • The Ottomans: The Muslim Empire in the Early Modern World, 1453-1789
  • The British and the World: 1763-1900
  • Awakening China: From the Opium Wars to the Present Day
  • Refugees in the 20th Century: A Global History
  • The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
  • Rome and its Empire from Augustus to Commodus
  • Natural History: Science from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
  • Medieval Worlds: Power, Belief and Culture, c.1000-1300
  • She-Wolves: Female Royal Power across the Medieval World, c.1000-1400
  • Spanish and Portuguese Empires in the Americas, 1450-1650
  • An Empire of Liberty? History of the USA 1787-1877
  • The United States in the Twentieth Century
  • The Tudor Monarchy 1485-1603
  • Gorgeous Georgians?: Society, Culture and Crime, 1714-1830
  • Vice, Virtue and the Victorians: British History 1837-1901
  • Community, Culture and Conflict in Twentieth-Century Britain
  • The Shock of the New: European Culture and Society 1789-1905
  • The Dark Continent: Europe, 1914-1948
  • Safe European Home? Europe 1945-2000
  • Histories of Humanitarianism, From the 1880s to the Present
  • Genocide: A Global History
  • Justice, Power and Religion in the Muslim World
  • 'Dragon Ladies'? Society, Politics and Gender in Modern China
  • The Vietnam War and the Cold War in Southeast Asia
  • Representations of Twentieth-century War in Popular Culture
  • The Later Roman Empire
  • Byzantium and its Neighbours, 641-1081
  • Holy Warriors: Crusaders, Muslims and the Struggle for Jerusalem, 1095-1244
  • Feast, Fast, and Famine: Eating and Living in the Middle Ages, c.1000-1500
  • Martin Luther King Jr and the Black Freedom Struggle
  • The Empire Strikes Back? Imagining and Remembering the British Empire
  • The Pursuit of Power: the Russian Empire in the Age of Reform and Revolution
  • Modern Girls: Women in Twentieth-Century Britain
  • Waging Armageddon: WW1 in British Experience and Memory
  • History Dissertation
  • ‘With Intent to Destroy’: Genocide in the Modern World
  • The Curse of Aid: International Development 1940-2000
  • A Clash of Powers: The United States, China and the Cold War
  • The Age of Terror: Terrorism from 1945 - Present
  • China and the World: Migrations and Frontiers, 1800-1960
  • Drawing the Line: Independence, Partition, and the Making of India and Pakistan
  • Children of the Revolution? France from 1789 to the Great War
  • A Global History of Drugs and Prohibition
  • History and Fiction
  • Grand Designs: Art, Architecture and Power in the Roman World
  • Christians and Pagans from Constantine to Augustine (AD 306-430)
  • Medicine in the Ancient, Medieval and Islamic World
  • Saladin, Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade
  • The City and the Conqueror: The Fall of Constantinople (1453)
  • A Nation Torn Asunder: Civil War America
  • Malcolm X: Islam and Black Protest in America
  • Entangled Histories: The Interconnected Atlantic World, 1500-1800
  • Divided by Faith: Belief in the Age of the European Reformations
  • Britain on Camera: Photography, Film and Society, 1840-1965
  • From Inverts to Perverts: Queer Life and Identity in Modern Britain
  • Europe, 1900: Cultures of Conflict and the Shock of the New
  • The Holocaust Witness: Personal Histories of Survival and Resilience
  • The Holocaust
  • Out On The Town: Leisure and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century Urban Britain
  • The Age of Thatcher? Politics, Identities and Cultures in Britain, c.1970-2000
  • Sex, Society and Identity in Britain, c. 1660-1815
  • Borderlands: Coexistence and Conflict, Democracy and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, 1912-1945
  • Berlin: A European Metropolis in the Twentieth Century