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BA History and Philosophy

Royal Holloway, University of London

Institution
Royal Holloway, University of London
Level
undergraduate
Subject
History and Philosophy
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
VV51
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 and Philosophy, combining two interconnected disciplines. Core topics include research methods, historical research, and critical and analytical thinking. The final year includes an 8,000-word dissertation based on original primary source research, and the curriculum spans from the ancient world through modern Europe and the non-Western world.

Modules

  • History in the Making
  • Problems of Knowledge
  • Tutorial Special Study
  • Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
  • Gods, Men and Power: An Introduction to the Ancient World, from Homer to Mohammed
  • 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
  • Introduction to European Philosophy 1: Kant to Hegel
  • Mind and World
  • The British and the World: 1763-1900
  • The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
  • Rome and its Empire from Augustus to Commodus
  • Globalising Capital: Britain and the World, 1846 to 1913
  • The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1000-1250
  • Religion, Culture and Society in Europe, 1000-1250
  • Politics, Pestilence and War in Late Medieval Europe, 1300 to 1500
  • The Sacred and Profane: Cultural Life in Renaissance Europe
  • The Dark Continent: Europe, 1914-1948
  • Safe European Home? Europe 1945-2000
  • Twentieth-Century World History: the Asian resurgence
  • The Tudor Monarchy 1485-1603
  • Killing the King: England in an Age of Revolution, 1603-1714
  • Gorgeous Georgians?: Society, Culture and Crime, 1714-1830
  • The Shock of the New: European Culture and Society 1789-1905
  • The Light of Burning Heretics: Popular Heresy in the Middle Ages
  • Twentieth-Century World History: The Middle East, Africa and Latin America
  • Medicine from Antiquity to the Medieval Near East
  • The Western Powers and East Asia, 1839-1945
  • 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
  • Spanish and Portuguese Empires in the Americas, 1450-1650
  • The Making of the Modern Middle East, 1789-1939
  • Everyday Life in the Italian Renaissance
  • American Economic Hegemony: Its Rise and Fall, 1941-2012
  • Vice, Virtue and the Victorians: British History 1837-1901
  • Modern British History 1914-1973
  • An Empire of Liberty? History of the USA 1787-1877
  • The United States in the Twentieth Century
  • Spain 1898-1939
  • Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy 1939-1989
  • Awakening China: From the Opium Wars to the Present Day
  • The Holy Man: Sanctity and the Sacred in Historical Research
  • Centre of the Universe: Science from Antiquity to the early Middle Ages
  • Byzantine Twilight, 1200-1460
  • The Greek World from the Fall of Byzantium to the Rise of Nationalism, 1453-1910
  • Italy from Unification to the Present
  • The History of Cyprus from the Ottoman Conquest to the Present Day
  • From Venizelos to Varoufakis: The History of Greece from 1910 to the Present Day
  • 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
  • Medicine and Society in Medieval Europe
  • 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
  • Spain in Conflict 1930-1953
  • Borderlands: Coexistence and Conflict, Democracy and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, 1912-1945
  • The Devil's Decade: Britain, America and the Great Slump, 1929-41
  • The Islamic Revival: from C18 Reform to C20 Political Action
  • Genocide: A Global History
  • A History of Terrorism
  • Grand Designs: Art, Architecture and Power in the Roman World
  • Histories of Humanitarianism, From the 1880s to the Present
  • Justice, Power and Religion in the Muslim World
  • Entangled Histories: The Interconnected Atlantic World, 1500-1800
  • 'Dragon Ladies'? Society, Politics and Gender in Modern China
  • 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
  • From Constantinople to Alexandria: Eastern Mediterranean Cities, 1798-1956
  • The Age of Thatcher
  • Sex, Society and Identity in Britain, c. 1660-1815
  • Explorers and Inventors in Classical and Late Antiquity
  • From Mussolini to Trump: Nationalism, Far Right and Identity Politics in Europe and America, 1919-2016
  • Independent Research Project
  • Introduction to European Philosophy 2: The Critique of Idealism
  • Philosophy and the Arts
  • Varieties of Scepticism
  • The Varieties of Scepticism
  • The Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Religon
  • Philosophy and Literature
  • The Good Life in Ancient Philosophy
  • Contemporary Political Theory
  • Modern Political Thought
  • History Dissertation
  • The Kingdom of Darkness Destroyed: Reason and Religion, 1651 to 1718
  • Faith and Fire: Religious Culture in England, c.1375 to 1525
  • The Origins and Impact of the Second Crusade
  • The City and the Conqueror: The Fall of Constantinople (1453)
  • Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Southern France, c.1140 to c.1300
  • The Empire in Victorian Britain, c.1830 to 1870
  • The Origins of Environmentalism: Critics of Modernity in Britain
  • Berlin: A European Metropolis in the Twentieth Century
  • The Holocaust
  • A Clash of Powers: The United States, China and the Cold War
  • Stalinism
  • Christians and Pagans from Constantine to Augustine (AD 306-430)
  • Victorian Babylon: Life, Work and People in London, c.1840 to 1890
  • Comparing Religious Fundamentalisms in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Migration, Identity and Citizenship in Modern Britain
  • The Age of Terror: Terrorism from 1945 - Present
  • Britain on Camera: Photography, Film and Society, 1840-1965
  • China and the World: Migrations and Frontiers, 1800-1960
  • Malcolm X: Islam and Black Protest in America
  • Europe, 1900: Cultures of Conflict and the Shock of the New
  • A Nation Torn Asunder: Civil War America
  • Visions of Europe: Political and Intellectual Readings of European Integration from the Interwar years to the Present
  • ‘With Intent to Destroy’: Genocide in the Modern World
  • The Holocaust Witness: Personal Histories of Survival and Resilience
  • From Inverts to Perverts: Queer Life and Identity in Modern Britain
  • Modern European Philosophy 1: Husserl to Heidegger
  • Modern European Philosophy 2: Critical Theory and Hermeneutics
  • Radical Political Theory I: Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche
  • Political Theories of Freedom