History with Foundation Year - BA (Hons)
Birkbeck, University of London
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Our BA History degree offers you a huge range of history modules, stretching around the world and across thousands of years.  Our expertise underpins our teaching. We are one of the very few history departments in the UK to include archaeologists, classicists and historians working on every period from prehistoric humans to Ancient Greece to medieval, early modern and modern societies. Our expertise encompasses much of the globe from Ancient Rome, medieval Armenia, modern China, India and ...Read more

Our BA History degree offers you a huge range of history modules, stretching around the world and across thousands of years.  Our expertise underpins our teaching. We are one of the very few history departments in the UK to include archaeologists, classicists and historians working on every period from prehistoric humans to Ancient Greece to medieval, early modern and modern societies. Our expertise encompasses much of the globe from Ancient Rome, medieval Armenia, modern China, India and Africa to Tudor London and Nazi Germany and more. In addition to pursuing interests in British, European and global history, and to exploring themes within histories of ‘race’, migration, gender and sexuality, you will have the opportunity to take modules from allied disciplines like politics and international relations, literature, philosophy and geography.Our history degree offers temporal and geographical breadth in a carefully structured programme. It gives you the opportunity to develop analytical skills and critical approaches that will enable you to assess historical evidence, and question accepted wisdoms about the past. There are lots of things you can do with a history degree, and your career prospects will be enhanced by developing the ability to formulate and communicate your own ideas effectively.Start Date: October 2023 Duration: Four years

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24 Feb 15

This has been the best six years of my retirement. Mental exercise and fitness and inclusive for part-timers from various backgrounds. The enthusiasm of staff and students here is..Read more

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04 Apr 14

The tutors are great and eager to help. They realise that we have time constraints due to most of us having to work too. They answer our emails quickly. It is too crouded here..Read more

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24 Feb 15
This has been the best six years of my retirement. Mental exercise and fitness and inclusive for part-timers from various backgrounds. The enthusiasm of staff and students here is...
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SR
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04 Apr 14
Politics, Philosophy and History - BA (Hons)
The tutors are great and eager to help. They realise that we have time constraints due to most of us having to work too. They answer our emails quickly. It is too crouded here...
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Birkbeck, University of London
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Birkbeck, University of London is located in Bloomsbury, the heart of London, and everything the UK’s capital city has to offer is on...

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Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street London England WC1E 7HX United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: Goodge Street  0.1 miles away Nearest train station: Holborn  0.2 miles away
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