BA History and Philosophy
Entry requirements
A Level: AAB IB: 34; 33, with B in a history-based extended essay
About this course
BA in History and Philosophy, a humanities degree centred on historical and philosophical approaches to human thought and society. Core topics include Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Communication & Writing, and Social & Cultural Analysis. The programme spans three years of undergraduate study, combining core method modules with a broad selection of optional topics and culminating in a substantial independent research project. The first year introduces fundamental concepts through modules such as History Workshop, Writing Philosophy, Thinking Historically, and History of Philosophy. The second year builds upon these foundations with compulsory modules including History and the Public, Ethics: From Theory to Practice, Parchment to Pixels: Interrogating Historical Evidence, and Global History of Philosophy. Optional modules in the second year allow specialisation in areas such as political philosophy, formal logic, and specialised historical periods. The final year focuses on advanced study and independent research, featuring compulsory modules like Short Dissertation and Communicating Philosophy alongside targeted subject options.
Modules
- History Workshop
- Writing Philosophy
- Thinking Historically
- History of Philosophy
- Mind and World
- Religion, Reason and Reality
- Death and Killing
- The 'Disenchantment' of Early Modern Europe, c. 1570-1770
- Beyond Borders? A Deep History of the Connected World
- The Long View: an introduction to archaeology
- Reason and Argument
- Bodies, Sex and Desires
- Science, Medicine and Society
- Empire, from the Ancient World to the Early Modern
- Common People: Everyday Lives in Modern Britain and Ireland
- History and the Public
- Ethics: From Theory to Practice
- Parchment to Pixels: Interrogating Historical Evidence
- Global History of Philosophy
- History and Historians
- Trumpism: An American Biography
- A History of Eastern Africa since 1940
- Life Worth Living
- From Democracy to Dictatorship: the 1973 coup in Chile
- Murder in the cathedral: the Becket Affair
- The Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858-85
- The Putney Debates, October 1647
- A Very British Revolution? The 1926 General Strike
- Contemporary Crises in Historical Perspective
- Byzantine Intersectionality: Gender, Race and Power in the Medieval Mediterranean, c.500-1300
- Formal Logic
- Feminism
- The Philosophy of AI and Robotics
- Religion and the Good Life
- Philosophy of the Arts
- Mind and Language
- Political Philosophy
- Science and the Search for Reality
- Knowing and Being
- Social Justice Today
- Short Dissertation
- Communicating Philosophy
- Permissive Britain? Social and Cultural Change 1956-74
- The World of Intoxicants in Early Modern England
- Cannibals and Christians: Mexico and Spain, c.1492-1600
- The Wars for Vietnam: Empire, Decolonisation and Liberation
- Resistance & Liberation in South Africa: Gandhi to Mandela
- Makers of a New World: Merchants, Scholars and Commoners in Late Medieval Europe
- Merchants, Pirates and Planters: The English Overseas, 1570-1624
- The National Security State, Treason, and Individual Rights during the Twentieth Century
- Italy in the Age of Dante, ca. 1200-1350
- The World Transformed? The League of Nations and the End of Empire, 1919-46
- Ethics and Belief
- Memory and the Self
- Philosophy of Psychology
- Utopia, Reform and Democracy
- Bodies and Souls
- Feminist and Queer Studies in Religion