BA English and History
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and History, combining the study of literature with its historical contexts. Core topics include Historical Research, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Research Methods. The course includes a dissertation in the final year, with a preparatory module covering research design and project management. Modules span from medieval to contemporary periods, examining literature alongside political and social change.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 29 points overall
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Real offers for this course
Applicants have posted 1 UCAS decision for BA English and History (QV31) at the University of Lincoln for 2027 entry so far. The published offer is BBC at A level.
What students say
Based on about 9 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 91%
- Learning opportunities: 85%
- Assessment and feedback: 87%
- Academic support: 77%
- Organisation and management: 59%
- Learning resources: 88%
- Student voice: 82%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 80%
- Left higher education: 15%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 12 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 40%
- Working and studying: 15%
- Further study: 35%
- Unemployed: 15%
Most common jobs
- Teaching Professionals: 25%
- Elementary occupations: 15%
- Sales occupations: 10%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 10%
- Secretarial and related occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 65%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 40%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 20%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 160 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 2%
- North West: 4%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 19%
- East Midlands: 33%
- West Midlands: 4%
- East of England: 21%
- London: 7%
- South East: 6%
- South West: 2%
- Wales: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Gold for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- Humanities in a Digital World
- Texts in Time: Medieval to Romantic
- Texts in Time: Victorian to Contemporary
- The Historian’s Craft
- Britain in the Making: A History of Early Modern and Modern Britain
- Empires: Power and Resistance
- Designing your Independent Study
- Dis-Locations: the Literature of Late Capitalism
- Theory Wars
- Age Of Extremes: Fascists And Dictators
- Accessing Ordinary Lives: Interpreting and Understanding Voices from the Past, 1880 – present
- Alexander the Great and his Legacy: the Hellenistic World
- American Literature I
- American Literature II
- Britons and Romans, 100 BC-AD 450
- Classical Indian Philosophy L5
- Clio’s Children: How Greeks Wrote History
- Collections Care and Management
- Decolonising the Past
- Ethics and the Meaning of Life
- Existentialism and Phenomenology
- Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Fighting for Peace? Politics, Society and War in the Modern Era
- From King Alfred to the Anarchy: Society, Politics and State-building in England, 871-1153
- Humanities in Action
- Images of the self: modernity and the portrait
- Imperial Worlds, Colonial Lives
- Industry Placement
- Latin I: Veni, Vidi, Latin (Second Year)
- Literature of the Fin de Siècle
- Living and dying in the middle ages, 800-1400
- Making and Meaning; History through Objects
- Medieval Literature
- Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God
- People on the move: migration, identity and mobility in the modern world
- Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Illness
- Power and the Presidency in the United States
- Queering the Past
- Reading the 'Global'
- Renaissance Literature
- Restoration Literature
- Romanticism: Literature 1780-1830
- Screen Cultures in History: From the BBFC to BTS
- Sport and Society in the Modern World
- Study Period Abroad - English
- Study Period Abroad: History
- Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice
- The Arthurian Myth
- The British Civil Wars: Experiencing and Remembering a Revolution
- The Global Cold War
- The Global Renaissance
- The Philosophy of Language L5
- The Tudor and Stuart World
- The World of the Crusades
- Vice and the Victorians: The Underbelly of Victorian Britain
- Victorian Worlds: Literature 1830-1914
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
- A Dream Deferred: Class in American Literature
- Air War and Society from Zeppelins to the Bomb
- Alexander the Great and his Legacy: the Hellenistic World (Third Year)
- Britons And Romans, 100 BC-AD 450 (third year)
- Chivalry in Medieval Europe
- Classical Indian Philosophy
- Clio’s Children: How Greeks Wrote History
- Consuming Societies: Western Europe 1600-1800
- Contemporary American Fiction
- Curatorial Practice
- Digital Heritage Tools and Techniques
- Eugenics, Race and Reproduction across the Atlantic, 1800-1945
- Exhibiting the World in the Nineteenth Century
- Existentialism and Phenomenology
- Fallout Nation: The United States and the Nuclear Age
- Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Global Literatures and Health
- Gothic in Literature and Film
- Gothic Visions: Stained Glass in Britain c. 1220-1960
- Growing Up and Growing Old: Youth and Age across the Nineteenth Century
- Heroes and Villains: The Reigns of Richard ‘the Lionheart’ (d. 1199) and ‘Bad’ King John (d. 1216)
- History Independent Study Part 2
- History Independent Study Part I
- Hong Kong since 1841: From British colony to Chinese city
- Humanities Work Placement
- Independent Study: English
- Literature and the Visual, 1770–1900
- Medicalised Bodies in Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 to the Present
- Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God
- Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing
- Objects of Empire: the material worlds of British colonialism
- Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Illness
- Queering the Past - Level 3
- Renaissance Cities
- Revolutionary Ideas in Tudor and Stuart Britain: Republicanism, Regicide and Liberty
- Shakespeare I
- Shakespeare II
- Single Author Study A
- Single Author Study B
- Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice - level 3
- The City and the Citizen: urban space and the shaping of modern life, 1850 to present.
- The Internet: A Social and Cultural History
- The Literature of Childhood
- The Philosophy of Language L6
- The US Civil Rights Movement
- Twenty-First Century British Fiction
- Un/freedoms in Caribbean Colonial Societies
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English and History at University of Lincoln earn?
The median salary is £25,000 after 15 months, £21,000 after 3 years, £25,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £21,500 and £31,500. The £25,500 median after five years is £2,500 less than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA English and History at University of Lincoln do next?
85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English and History at University of Lincoln?
91% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English and History at University of Lincoln?
The typical offer is BBC at A level, or 29 points in the IB. The average entrant had 100 UCAS points.
Does BA English and History at University of Lincoln include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year.
How many students continue on BA English and History at University of Lincoln?
80% of students continued into their second year, and 15% left higher education.