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
In English, you will take the following modules (all compulsory):
- Poetry (15 credits)
- London Global (30 credits)
- Literatures in Time Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages (15 credits)
In History, you will take the following compulsory module:
- HST4621A History in Practice (15 credits)
You then select one of the following modules:
- Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801 (15 credits)
- Global Encounters: conquest and Culture in World History (15 credits)
You choose your remaining credits from a selection of Level 4 History modules that changes each year.
YEAR 2
In English you will take one 30 credit module from List One or Two, and at least one module from Lists Three or Four:
List One: Medieval and Early-Modern Studies
- Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
- Renaissance Drama
- Renaissance Literary Culture
List Two: Eighteenth Century Studies, Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth Century City
- Romantics and Revolutionaries
- Victorian Fictions
List Three: Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial Studies
- The Long Contemporary
- Modernism
- Postcolonial and Global Literatures
List 4: Special Options (Modules offered on this list changes each year). Modules may include:
- American Romanticsm
- Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
- Global Shakespeare
- James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
- Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
- The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics, 1918-1948
- The Thousand and One Nights
In History you will take this compulsory module:
History Research Project
You then select your remaining credits from a selection of Level 5 History modules that changes every year. Modules may include:
- A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890–1990
- Angels, Spinsters and Whores: British Women and Gender from Victoria to the Vote
- Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain, 1830–1928
- London on Film: Representing the City in British and American Cinema
- Race in the United States: Plantation Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
- The Buildings of London I: From the Ashes of Fire to the Capital of Empire
- Violence and Modernity in Twentieth-Century India
- Women and Gender in Medieval Islam
YEAR 3
You will choose from:
- English Research Dissertation
- History Special Subject
You choose your final-year elective modules from a wide range of options that changes each year. In English, one module selected must normally be a 30 credit option.
Elective modules may include
- British Fictions of the 1960s
- Feminism(s)
- Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
- Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
- The Modern Caribbean: Migration, Radicalism and Revolt
- Victorian Sensation Fiction
- American Horror Stories: The Fiction and Film Worlds of Stephen King from Carrie to It
- Empire and Political Thought
- Islam in Africa and the Indian Subcontinent: Conquest, Islamisation and Co-existence
- Searching For Sisterhood: Feminist Activism in Britain 1968-1988
- Time, Narrative, Culture
- Witches, Demons and Magic in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- Writing Empire: the Eighteenth Century
