English and History BA Honours
UCAS Code: QV31
(3 Years)
Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.
Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.
Stage 1
Compulsory modules
You take compulsory modules to equip you with the foundation you need for further study.
Optional modules
You also take up to two modules from Lists A and B below:
List A
- HIS1025 World Empires
- HIS1027 European History
- HIS1044 Aspects of British History
- HIS1046 The History of the Americas
List B
- SEL1003 Introduction to Literary Studies
- SEL1004 Introduction to Literary Studies II
- SEL1023 Transformations
Stage 2
Compulsory modules
- Research Project in English and History
Optional modules
You also take up to two modules from List C, and a module each from Lists D and E.
List C
- HIS2012 Islam, Crusades, the Mongol Invasions
- HIS2021 Slavery and Antislavery, 1740-1863
- HIS2026 Japan Since 1868
- HIS2039 Modern Caribbean
- HIS2047 Twentieth-Century Cuba
- HIS2072 Anglo-Saxon England
- HIS2077 Russia under Lenin and Stalin
- HIS2078 History of Medicine
- HIS2084 Europe's Reformations
- HIS2086 Twentieth-Century France
- HIS2087 A Civilian's War
- HIS2100 ERASMUS Student Exchange
- HIS2102 The Two Irelands
- HIS2103 Dark Ages
- HIS2117 Modern Colonial Empires
- HIS2122 Ideas and Revolutions
- HIS2123 The Family, Sex and Society in Early Modern England
- HIS2124 A History of Contemporary Britain
- HIS2126 The Difficult Fatherland
- HIS2128 Modern Greece
- HIS2132 Criminal Atlantic
- HIS2133 Society and Politics in Colonial India
List D
- SEL2201 Writing the Renaissance
- SEL2202 Writing New Worlds, 1660-1800
- SEL2203 Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832
- SEL2204 Victorian Passions: Victorian Values
List E
- SEL2205 Fictions of Migration
- SEL2206 Class, Nation and Identity
- SEL2207 Modernisms
- SEL2209 Poetry and Prose Workshop
- SEL2217 Popular Performance: Here and Now
Stage 3
Compulsory modules
- Dissertation in English and History
Optional modules
You also take up to two modules from Lists F and G below:
List F (indicative, other modules available)
- HIS3000 Reading History
- HIS3034 The Age of Jefferson
- HIS3203 Madness, Nerves and Narratives
- HIS3204 The English Revolution, 1640-1660
- HIS3205 Fascism in Italy
- HIS3208 Coffee, Chocolate and Tobacco
- HIS3213 Slave Emancipation in the British Empire
- HIS3219 Medieval Spain
List G (indicative, other modules available)
- SEL3368 Elizabethan Tragedy
- SEL3376 Renaissance Literature: Special Topic
- SEL3303 Writing Rebellion: The Literature of the English Revolution
- SEL3345 The Long 18th Century: The Social Lives of Things
- SEL3301 Shakespeare in Performance
- SEL3305 Romantic Poetry
- SEL3359 Victorian Dreamworlds
- SEL3374 Twenthieth-Century American Theatre
Having taken at least one module from Lists E, F and G, you may also choose to take one of the following:
