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HomeStudy at YorkUndergraduateCourses 2027/28English Literature and History (BA)

BA (Hons) English Literature and History

Combine the expertise of two of the UK’s finest departments.

Year of entry: 2027/28

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September 2027

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3 years full-time

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Department of English and Related Literature, Department of History

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8th in the UK for history

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Why study English literature and history at York?

Explore an extensive range of modules across two departments. Our expertise covers literature from ancient classics to the present day, and history from the Middle Ages to the contemporary moment. You’ll choose from modules that span geographic, cultural, linguistic, and thematic boundaries, tailoring your degree to match your academic interests.

Take an interdisciplinary view. You’ll bring your two subjects into dialogue with one another on Texts and Histories, our bridge module taught exclusively to students on this degree. You’ll also undertake an English and History Bridge Dissertation, allowing you to develop a topic that draws on the research and analysis skills developed on both sides of your degree.

Flexibility to add a Placement Year or Year Abroad. You’d then graduate with a BA in English Literature and History (with Placement Year) or BA in English Literature and History (with Year Abroad). Whether you’re interested in gaining experience in a particular industry or looking to expand your horizons by studying in another country, we’ll support you in exploring the options available to you.

Gain valuable skills that will set you up for a range of careers. You’ll develop your own research projects that address different briefs, learning to think critically, analyse texts, and develop persuasive arguments. Our Careers and Employability Coordinator will help you to think about these skills in relation to employability and to navigate the resources and opportunities available, including internships, a placement year, and more. We regularly advertise careers events by industry experts.

Interdisciplinary teaching

You'll benefit from our interdisciplinary research and teaching with critical thinking and transferable skills.

World-leading and internationally excellent research

The Department of English was ranked as a top ten research department according to the Times Higher Education’s ranking of the latest REF results (2021). Also, 87.5 per cent of the Department of History's research impacts were rated at 4* - REFs highest rating.

English's emphasis on global literatures was really what attracted me to York when I was applying and I can easily say that it has been my favourite part of my degree.

Francesca, BA English. Read Francesca's blog post.

Our combined English Literature and History degree fosters a sense of interdisciplinarity: building on the subject specific skills developed in Year 1, you’ll begin to think about the relationship between the two disciplines in the Year 2 module Texts and Histories. This innovative module invites you to bring together your understanding of historical phenomena, narrative structures, and the particularities of close textual analysis in a module co-taught by a member of staff in each department.

In Year 3, you will undertake a bridge dissertation that combines your two subjects together. Alongside this independent research project, you’ll also choose from a range of options offered by English and special subjects offered by History.

In the first year of your degree, we’ll introduce you to the undergraduate study of English and History. Our modules will give you the skills you need to start undertaking literary and historical research, and advice on how to combine the two disciplines.

Core modules

We’ll introduce you to an exciting range of texts and critical approaches in your first year to lay the foundation for your degree. You’ll develop your knowledge of literary history by studying works from the medieval, Renaissance, early modern, 18th century, Romantic, Victorian, and modern periods. Reading Now will introduce you to the necessary skills for the study of literature at university level.

Writing Modernity

Other Worlds

Reading Now

Your core modules in History will cover topics such as:

Evidence and Methods

Knowledge and Beliefs in World History

You will also choose one of the following:

Political Communities in World History or Societies and Economies in World History

Academic integrity module

In addition to the above you will also need to complete our online Academic Integrity module.

This module covers some of the essential skills and knowledge which will help you to study independently and produce work of a high academic standard which is vital for success at York.

This module will:

define academic integrity and academic misconduct

provide interactive exercises to help you to assess whether you've understood the concepts

provide answers to FAQs and links to useful resources.

In the second year of your degree, you’ll take our exciting bridge module Texts and Histories designed specifically for English Literature and History students and taught by a member of staff from each department. This module is the cornerstone of your combined course programme; it will provide you with a range of critical and analytical skills that are applicable across periods, and that will highlight the possibilities offered by studying two disciplines. You will also choose five from a wide range of option modules in the English and History departments.

Texts and Histories

Option modules

Intermediate Option Modules

Our Intermediate Option Modules allow you to deepen your understanding of the relationship between literary works and the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which they were produced.

The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature

The Renaissance

Inventing Britain, 1700-1830

Making the Modern: Global Literature in the Victorian Age

Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature

American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire

Creative Writing: Contemporary Practice

World Literature Modules

Our World Literature Modules invite you to engage with questions of language, translation, and cultural difference in ways that equip you with important skills in linguistic analysis and description. Some examples include:

African Imaginations and Afrophone Literatures

European New Cinema

Eros: The Literature and Philosophy of Love

French Autofictions

Introduction to Greek and Roman Literature

Modern French and Francophone Literature

Modern Latin American Literature

Medieval Arabic and Persian Global Literature

Old Norse Literature

Post-War Italian Cinema

The World of Beowulf

Community Engaged Learning Modules

You can also choose to take our Community Engaged Learning Module. You'll work on a team project with a local organisation, making direct use of your distinct disciplinary skills such as analysis, research, and communication.

Beyond the Book: Community Projects

History Explorations

You'll choose from a range History Explorations. Examples may include:

Ancien Régime France, 1610-1789

Bankers, Merchants, and Poets: Florence and the Roots of the Renaissance

Before the Mongols: Nomadic Empires of Central Eurasia, 900-1200

Black Radicalism

Catherine the Great

China: An Economic and Environmental History, 1870-1970

Chivalry, Identity and Love 1350-1450

Communist Europe: Crisis, Transformation & Memory after the Second World War

Containing Multitudes: Inequality and the City in Britain and its Empire post-1800

Crime and Society in Britain and Ireland since 1750

From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s

Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Health for all? International Health from Colonial Medicine to Covid Vaccine

Heterosexual Africa? Sexuality, Power, and Politics in Africa since 1900

Historical Fictions and Frictions: Fictionalising the Past

Historical Thinking

Humanism, Magic and Science, c.1500-c.1700

Kingship, Rule and Crisis in Medieval England

Persecution and Toleration in Early Modern Britain

Powerful Impressions: Culture and Politics in the Post-1945 United States

Social Science and Modern Britain, c1880-c1970

The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700

Using and Abusing the Past in Britain, 1835-2018

Vikings and Historians: Historiographical Dialogues through the Ages

Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.

Elective modules

You may be able to replace one option module with an elective module, studying a complementary subject, a language or an interdisciplinary topic.

In the final year of your degree, you'll undertake a bridge dissertation, a year-long research project that brings your two subject into dialogue with one another. The bridge dissertation is one of the distinctive features of the English Literature and History degree at York, and offers you the chance to showcase the research and writing skills you have developed during your degree. Alongside the bridge dissertation, you'll also choose two Advanced Options Modules in the English Department, and one Special Subject in the History Department.

Core module

You'll undertake a bridge dissertation modules, choosing which department you'd like to supervise you.

Bridge Dissertation with English Supervisor

Bridge Dissertation with History Supervisor

Our Advanced Option Modules reflect the wide-ranging research expertise of the Department and cover literature from the classical period to the twenty-first century, as well as film and creative writing. You'll typically choose from over 30 options. Some examples include:

Black Writers of the Global Nineteenth Century

Borders Bodies Bridges: Migration and Racialisation in Modern Literature and Culture

Crafting the Past: Reimagining the Eighteenth Century

Elemental: Contemporary Indigenous Literatures in English

From Tennyson to Tolkien: The Middle Ages and Modern Literature, 1840-1940

Green Romanticism: Nature, Ecology, Calamity

Modernism's Queer Spaces

Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Romance and Popular Literature

Spices and Spies: Renaissance Global Travel

The Stuff of Poetry

The Villains of Romantic Gothic

The Writer's Notebook: A Prose Fiction Workshop

Tragedy: Theatre, Death and Mourning

Black British History and Decolonisation

Exiled Lives: English Nuns in Catholic Europe, 1600-1800

Francis Bacon: Myth, Magic and Morals

From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth-Century Caribbean

Hong Kong: Decolonisation and Development, 1945-97

Imperial Japan, 1890-1950

Joan of Arc

Mao and Maoism

Ploughing the Sea? The Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1750-1830

Popular Politics? The History of British Political Culture since 1945

Poverty and the Welfare State in Post-War Britain

Prussia and the Unification of Germany, 1815-1918

Race, Place and Health in Britain and its Empire, 1880-1960

Reading and Writing in Medieval England

Rebellion and Revolution: Britain, 1637-1653

Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, and Religious Ferment, c.1200

Rome Reborn: Culture and Society c.1575-c.1655

The First Islamic Empire

The French Wars of Religion

Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35

Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.

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There are opportunities for you to spend time abroad during your course.

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Find your edge by gaining practical experience that boosts your employability. Explore diverse opportunities to apply your knowledge and build vital professional skills, such as placements, internships and part-time jobs.

Learning outcomes

Every course at York has been designed to provide clear and ambitious learning outcomes. These learning outcomes give you an understanding of what you will be able to do at the end of the course. We develop each course by designing modules that grow your abilities towards the learning outcomes and help you to explain what you can offer to employers. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.

Learning outcomes for this course

Display broad and deep understandings of the history and literature of a wide range of periods, and engage creatively and critically with a variety of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological frameworks.

Read diverse texts closely and critically, interpreting them with reference to the period and tradition in which they were produced, and synthesizing information from secondary sources where appropriate. They will be able to evaluate the arguments of others and assess the value and significance of different forms of evidence.

Write clearly, accurately, and persuasively, articulating ideas and presenting arguments, their own and other people’s, to a deadline and to a professional standard. They will demonstrate advanced skills in oral communication, presentation, and collaboration. They will be expert in debate and adept at using evidence to support an argument.

Make comparisons and connections between different periods, places and societies and understand a situation from a range of perspectives. They will be able to analyse the emotional power, and the cultural and political impact, of language and narrative. They will use this awareness, along with an advanced understanding of historical precursors and examples, to better understand the world and influence others.

Have highly developed research skills. They will be able to identify useful material, understand sources in context and construct meaningful research questions. They will be skilled at engaging with a variety of different forms of information including digital resources, material culture, visual imagery, texts, databases and statistical information, and in identifying and utilising the most appropriate resources to achieve a desired result.

Initiate and complete projects of their own which contribute to pressing contemporary debates.

Exercise independent thought and judgement, and be skilled in interrogating their own assumptions.

Have the ability to work in collaboration with others. They will know how to extend their knowledge and skills within a team context, and have the qualities to lead a project and execute a programme of work in a timely and professional manner.

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The fees and funding information here is for students starting in the 2027/28 academic year.

If you take a year abroad or year in industry you'll pay a reduced rate of fees for that year.

Annual tuition fees

UK (home)

International and EU

The UK government has announced its intention to increase tuition fees from £9,790 to £10,050 for the 2027/8 academic year. We expect this to apply to new UK (home) undergraduate students starting their studies in September 2027.

UK (home) or international fees?

The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you're classed as a UK (home) or international student. Check your fee status.

Fees for subsequent years

UK (home) fees may increase within the government fee cap in subsequent academic years. We will notify you of any increase as soon as we can.

International fees are subject to increase in subsequent years in line with the prevailing Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate (up to a maximum of 10%).

More information

For more information about tuition fees, any reduced fees for study abroad and work placement years, scholarships, tuition fee loans, maintenance loans and living costs see undergraduate fees and funding.

Additional costs

In English, you'll need copies of the texts set for each module. Where possible, the Department of English and Related Literature works to arrange digital copies via the University Library. Where this is not practical, you'll be instructed in advance of the start of each term about the texts and editions you'll need to purchase (whether new or second-hand). In History, you will have to pay for the cost of printing some assignments for submission as assessed work in Years 2 and 3.

We'll confirm more funding opportunities for students joining us in 2027/28 throughout the year.

UK government loans

UK scholarships and bursaries

International scholarships

Country-specific funding

US loans

Department funding

History BA Undergraduate Scholarship

Living costs

You can use our living costs guide to help plan your budget. It covers additional costs that are not included in your tuition fee such as expenses for accommodation and study materials.

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* Awarded joint 10th in the Times Higher Education ranking of the Research Excellence Framework 2021.

You’ll study and learn with academics who are active researchers, experts in their field and have a passion for their subjects. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.

Teaching format

In both English and History, you’ll learn through a programme of seminars, lectures, workshops, and one-to-one consultations. We emphasise small-group teaching, which means you’ll mainly be taught in seminars.

York’s English Literature and History degree is renowned for its flexible and innovative approach.

You can typically expect eight contact hours per week – and sometimes more. There are also numerous opportunities for informal contact.

Our friendly, approachable, and accessible staff are world-leading experts in their fields. They are each available to meet individually with you during two weekly open office hours.

We organise many guest lectures and readings by well-known writers and historians.

In the UK, full-time students are expected to spend 1,200 hours a year learning. That's about 40 hours of classes and independent study each week during semesters. Everyone learns at a different rate, so the number of hours you spend on independent study will be different to other students on your course.

Facilities

Thin Ice Press is the Department of English and Related Literature’s in-house printing studio, whose iron presses chart the evolution of print from 1838-1926. They offer opportunities to experience the relationship between writing and printing practices through publication, practice-led research, teaching, and public workshops.

The University is home to the Borthwick Institute for Archives and students can also access York Minster Library and the City Archives. We're also close to the British Library Reading Room at Boston Spa where you can consult millions of items.

Teaching location

You will be based in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Department of History, which are on Campus West.

Your contact hours will be divided between Derwent College, Vanbrugh College, the Spring Lane Building, and other locations nearby on Campus West.

About our campus

Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can use the fast and frequent bus service. Take a campus tour.

Assessment and feedback

The Department of English and Related Literature employs a variety of assessment methods, including group projects and open exams, but with a strong emphasis on essay writing. Your main mode of assessment will be essays, which will range from short exploratory exercises to more detailed discussions on a topic of your choice. We offer high levels of feedback and ample opportunities for you to meet with staff to discuss your written work.

The Department of History also uses a variety of assessment methods. These include assessed essays from 2,000-4,000 words, closed exams, and open exams, and you will complete a 3,000-word group project in your second year.

In your third year, you will bring your two subjects into dialogue in a 7,000-8,000 word bridge dissertation on a topic of your choosing.

Both departments offer high levels of feedback and ample opportunities for you to meet with staff to discuss your written work.

Whilst the degree is really interesting and has allowed me to study and do things that are genuinely interesting, the thing that makes history at York what it is, simply put, has to be the University and the City itself. From the Roman walls, to the little coffee shops, to the free entry to the Minster, there’s lots to love about this city.

Ed, BA History. Read Ed's blog post.

Careers and skills

Studying English and History at York will provide you with numerous career possibilities. You’ll learn presentation, language, and critical thinking skills during your combined degree, and gain expertise in complex analysis and research. These skills suit a wide range of careers, from law and teaching to national and local government and the creative industries.

Student and graduate stories

Career opportunities

advertising, marketing, social media, and public relations

arts administration

civil and diplomatic services

film, radio, television, and theatre

journalism and broadcasting

librarianship

member of parliament

publishing

teaching

Transferable skills

ability to analyse and compare complex texts

capacity to write clearly and fluently for a variety of audiences

communication and teamwork skills

critical and analytical thinking

data interpretation

experience of researching and debating challenging topics

independent study skills

logic and rhetoric

proficiency in presenting findings cogently and persuasively using information technology

Turn ambition into achievement with our expert guidance and connections. From your first day here to life after graduation, we'll help you find your career advantage.

Qualification

A levels

AAA, including English Literature and History (English Language and Literature is also acceptable)

Access to Higher Education Diploma

39 credits at Distinction, including at least 6 credits in Literature-related units and 6 credits in History-related units, and 6 credits at Merit or higher

BTEC National Extended Diploma

DDD with additional A Levels or equivalent qualifications in English Literature and History at grade A.

European Baccalaureate

85% overall, with 85% in English Literature and 85% in History.

International Baccalaureate

36 points including 6 in English Literature (or English Language and Literature) and History at Higher Level

T levels

We are currently not accepting T Levels for this course unless additional A Levels (or equivalent qualifications) in English Literature and History have been taken.

Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers

Advanced Highers - AB in English Literature and History plus

Scottish Highers - AB

We may also be able to consider three Advanced Highers or a combination of Highers and Advanced Highers, where an applicant does not meet the grade requirement through Highers alone. Please contact us to discuss your qualifications.

Other international qualifications

Equivalent qualifications from your country

Alternative offers

Meeting the following additional criteria may qualify you for an alternative offer.

Criteria

Adjustment

Widening participation

ABC including A and B in English Literature (English Language and Literature is also acceptable) and History (either way round)

This is conditional upon successful completion of the WP programme including the YorJourney module (Black Access Programme, Next Step York) or successful completion of Realising Opportunities More about widening participation.

Contextual offer

AAC including AA in English Literature and History (English Language and Literature is also acceptable)

If you achieve A or higher in the EPQ, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer.

English language

If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:

Minimum requirement

IELTS (Academic)

6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component

Other English language qualifications

To see what other language tests we can accept and the scores required, visit our IELTS equivalences webpage and click on the IELTS requirement for your chosen course.

We also accept various school-leaving certificates to meet our English Language requirements. Please visit our country-specific information for further details.

For more information see our undergraduate English language requirements.

If you haven't met our English language requirements

You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses. These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.

The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.

After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York.

To apply to York, you'll need to complete an online application via UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service).

How to apply

We look for intellectual and literary curiosity, open-mindedness, and analytical ability.

We encourage mature students to email the Admissions Tutor for consultation and advice.

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