BA English and History
Course Overview
This integrated English and History degree offers a unique opportunity to explore the profound connections between literary works and their historical contexts, from the ancient world to the present day. You will develop critical thinking, research, and communication skills by analyzing how texts and events shape one another, preparing you for a wide range of future careers. The program is highly flexible, allowing you to tailor your studies to your specific interests, from oceans and empires to modern identities.
Key Program Highlights
- Integrated study of English literature and History, exploring their connections from the ancient world to the present
- Highly flexible curriculum allowing you to specialize in areas like Victorian fiction, maritime history, or screenplay writing
- Access to unique resources including the Chawton House Library and the Parkes Archive, one of Europe's largest Jewish document centers
- Opportunities for creative and professional development, from writing workshops to one-to-one tutorials with Royal Literary Fund Fellows
- Option to study abroad for a semester or summer at one of the university's global partner institutions
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Course Overview
This integrated English and History degree offers a unique opportunity to explore the profound connections between literary works and their historical contexts, from the ancient world to the present day. You will develop critical thinking, research, and communication skills by analyzing how texts and events shape one another, preparing you for a wide range of future careers. The program is highly flexible, allowing you to tailor your studies to your specific interests, from oceans and empires to modern identities.
Key Program Highlights
- Integrated study of English literature and History, exploring their connections from the ancient world to the present
- Highly flexible curriculum allowing you to specialize in areas like Victorian fiction, maritime history, or screenplay writing
- Access to unique resources including the Chawton House Library and the Parkes Archive, one of Europe's largest Jewish document centers
- Opportunities for creative and professional development, from writing workshops to one-to-one tutorials with Royal Literary Fund Fellows
- Option to study abroad for a semester or summer at one of the university's global partner institutions
Requirements
The requirements may vary based on your selected study options.
Modules
- English on the Move
- History Matters (Object, Image, Text)
- The Novel
- World Histories Introduced
- Antisemitism and Islamophobia in modern European history
- Castles: Military technology and social change from the middle ages to the modern
- From Constantine to Theodosius: Christians, Pagans and Emperors
- From Shah to Ayatollah: The Establishment of the Clerical Power in Iran (1979 to Today)
- Henry VIII: Reputation and Reality
- Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture
- Literary Transformations
- Masada: History and Myth
- Peace and Love? Britain in the 1960s
- Rebellions and Uprising in the age of the Tudors
- Terrorists, Tyrants and Technology: America's \
- The Crimean War
- The First World War
- The Invention of English Literature: Medieval to Early Modern
- Theory & Criticism
- World Dramas
- Humanities Study Abroad Preparation Module
- Making History: Historians and Audiences
- Revolutions in English Literature
- Year Abroad Report Module for Humanities Students
- Year in Employment
- Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
- Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
- African Freedoms and The Novel
- Ancient Greeks at War
- Ancient Rome: the First Metropolis
- Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories
- Building London: the history of a city, 1666 – 2012
- Celebrity, Media and Mass Culture, Britain 1888-1952
- Cold War? Post-War Conflict from a Jewish perspective
- Corpus Linguistics: Working with large-scale text data
- Data Environmentalism
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Decolonising Modernity
- Discipline and Punish: Prisons and Prisoners in England 1775 - 1898
- Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday
- Global Hip Hop
- Great Writers Steal: Creative Writing and Critical Thinking
- How the Arts Work: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Economics
- Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in France
- Imperial China: From China’s mythical emperors to the 19th century
- Islam's Identity Crisis: Between Violent Jihadism and Peaceful Reformation
- Jews in Germany before the Holocaust
- Latin 1
- Latin 2
- McCarthyism
- Myth and the Ancient World
- Napoleon and his legend
- Nelson Mandela: A South African life
- Peasants, Empresses and Holy Virgins: Women in Late Antiquity
- Plague, Fire and Popish Plots: The Worlds of Charles II
- Puzzles about Art and Literature
- Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England
- Queering the Digital
- Ragtime! The Making of Modern America
- Responses to the Holocaust
- Retail Therapy: A journey through the cultural history of shopping
- Romantics and Victorians
- Songs of the Earth: Landscapes and Environments of Early Medieval England
- Speech Acts
- Sweatshops, Sex workers, and Asylum Seekers: World Literature and Visual Culture after Globalisation
- The Early Modern Body
- The Fall of the Russian Empire
- The First British Empire: the beginnings of English dominance, 1050-1300
- The Global Game: Football in the Modern Era
- The History of US: Telling Student Stories, 1862-Present
- The Life and Afterlife of the Vikings
- The Making of Modern India
- The Worlding of English Literature
- Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present
- Witchcraft in England, 1542-1736
- Women, Writing and the Canon, 1770-1900
- A Short History of Exploration
- A Short History of Modern Science
- A Short History of the Far Right
- A Short History of the Populist Leader
- Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
- American Cinema Since 1965
- American Gothic
- An ambivalent asylum: the histories and memories of refugees in early twentieth-century France
- Animal Forms: poetry and the non-human
- Arthurian Worlds
- Authoring Austen: Writing, Reception and Adaptation
- China in the Cold War – Part 1 (The Chronology)
- China in the Cold War – Part 2 (Themes)
- Creative Writing in Schools
- Cultures in Contact: A Diverse Ancient World
- Cultures in Contact: Resisting Rome
- Data Environmentalism
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- English Dissertation
- Environmental Cinema and Media
- Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
- Fantasy Film and Fiction
- Forging the Raj: The East India Company and Britain’s Asian World, part 1
- Forging the Raj: The East India Company and Britain’s Asian World, part 2
- Framing the Past:Stardom, History and Heritage in the Cinema
- From Tyranny to Revolution: England 1625-49: Part 1
- From Tyranny to Revolution: England, 1625-49 Part 2
- Global Hip Hop
- Historical Memory in Modern Latin America
- History Dissertation
- Holocaust Literature
- How the Arts Work: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Economics
- India in the World: Migration, Culture and Identity of the Indian Diaspora (1800 to Present) Part 1
- India in the World: Migration, Culture and Identity of the Indian Diaspora (1800 to Present) Part 2
- Language and the City
- Latin 1
- Latin 2
- Living with the Romans: Urbanism in the Roman Empire
- Queering the Digital
- Racism in the United States 1785-1915 Part 1
- Racism in the United States 1785-1915 Part 2
- Reading Histories
- Shakespeare Then and Now
- Songs of the Earth: Landscapes and Environments of Early Medieval England
- Sounding the Museum
- Telling True Stories: Narrative Non-Fiction
- The Great Exhibition of 1851 Part 2: Legacy
- The Great Exhibition of 1851 Part one: Art, Industry and the making of a Nation
- The Hammer and the Scalpel: The American Precision Ethos and Culture of War (Part 1)
- The Hammer and the Scalpel: The American Precision Ethos and Culture of War (Part 2)
- The Life and Afterlife of the Vikings
- The Third Reich 1
- The Third Reich 2
- The imperial Other: Race, Religion and Identity in modern Britain, France, and Russia
- The imperial Other: Race, Religion and Identity in modern Britain, France, and Russia (Part 1)
- Utopias and Dystopias in Literature and Culture
- War, State and Society: The Hundred Years War (1337-1453), Part 1
- War, State and Society: The Hundred Years War (1337-1453), Part 2
- Writing Queerness
- Writing the Novel
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