English and history ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your English and History degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1 Compulsory

• English in Practice
• History in Practice
• Reading, Theory and Interpretation: Approaches to the Study of English Literature

• Literatures in Time: Texts and Contexts from the 8th to the 16th Centuries
• Shakespeare

• Building the American Nation: 1756–1900
• Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy
• Europe in a Global Context: 1800 to the Present
• Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History
• Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
• The Medieval World: Structures and Mentalities
• Unravelling Britain: 1800 to the Present

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Choose two modules across three subject areas

1. Medieval and Early Modern Studies

• Arthurian Literature from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Game of Thrones
• Renaissance Literary Culture

2. Eighteenth-Century, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Studies

• Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth-Century City
• Romantics and Revolutionaries
• Victorian Fictions

3. Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies

• Modernism
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures
• The Long Contemporary

• A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890–1990
• Africa in Europe, 1440–1650: Renaissance Encounters
• Architecture in London II: 1837 to the Present
• Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain, 1830–1928
• Gender and Politics in Britain since 1870
• London on Film: Representing the City in British and American Cinema
• The Georgians: Society and Culture in Eighteenth Century England
• Women and Gender in Medieval Islam

You choose further modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.

• Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
• Black and Asian Writing in Britain
• Chaucer: Telling Medieval Tales
• James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
• Satire, Scandal and Society
• The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918–1948
• Women and their Writing in the Romantic Period
• Writing Now

This is a sample of English modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Choose from

• English Research Dissertation
• History Special Subject

You choose the rest of your final year modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.

• Apocalypse Now: Crisis, Change and Later Medieval Mentalities
• British Fictions of the 1960s
• Death of a Dynasty: Tudors and Stuarts, c. 1590–1610
• Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
• Guillotines
• Islam and the West in the Middle Ages
• James Joyce's Ulysses
• Reading William Blake
• Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
• The 'Heart of Darkness'? Identity, Power and Politics in the Congo c.1870–2010
• The Modern Caribbean: Migration, Radicalism and Revolt
• Writing Muslims

This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our English and History BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.

Additional Costs

A few modules may require you to buy tickets to shows or exhibitions (often at a discounted rate) as well as pay for travel within London.