BA History
About this course
BA (Hons) History at the University of Lincoln, exploring political, social and cultural change across multiple periods and regions. Core topics include Historical Research, Research Methods, Communication & Writing, Global & Comparative Perspective, Project Management, and Ethics & Professional Practice. A dedicated module supports progression to a final-year dissertation, building research design and project management skills.
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Entry requirements
A level: BCC to BBC IB: 29 points overall.
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Real offers for this course
Applicants have posted 1 UCAS decision for BA History (V100) at the University of Lincoln for 2027 entry so far. The published offer is BCC at A level.
What students say
Based on about 39 final-year students who answered
- Teaching on my course: 92%
- Learning opportunities: 88%
- Assessment and feedback: 94%
- Academic support: 98%
- Organisation and management: 72%
- Learning resources: 91%
- Student voice: 78%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 75 students who started
- Continued on course: 93%
- Left higher education: 7%
What graduates do next
Based on about 19 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 55%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Further study: 25%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Teaching Professionals: 20%
- Elementary occupations: 15%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 10%
- Skilled trades occupations: 10%
- Teaching and Childcare Support Occupation: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 60%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 40%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 25%
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 70 students who started
- A levels: 83%
- Baccalaureate: 1%
- Access course: 1%
- A degree: 1%
- Other HE qualification: 13%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Gold for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- Britain in the Making: A History of Early Modern and Modern Britain
- Empires: Power and Resistance
- Forging the Modern State
- Humanities in a Digital World
- The Historian’s Craft
- The Past in Public: Lincoln's History
- Designing your Independent Study
- Humanities in Action
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Images of the self: modernity and the portrait
- Imperial Worlds, Colonial Lives
- Latin I: Veni, Vidi, Latin (Second Year)
- 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
- Playing the Past: History and Videogames
- Power and the Presidency in the United States
- Queering the Past
- Screen Cultures in History: From the BBFC to BTS
- Sport and Society in the Modern World
- 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
- History Independent Study Part 2
- History Independent Study Part I
- 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
- 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
- Gothic Visions: Stained Glass in Britain c. 1220-1960
- Heroes and Villains: The Reigns of Richard ‘the Lionheart’ (d. 1199) and ‘Bad’ King John (d. 1216)
- Hong Kong since 1841: From British colony to Chinese city
- Humanities Work Placement
- Latin I: Veni, Vidi, Latin (Third Year)
- Latin II: Iter Romanum (Third Year)
- Medicalised Bodies in Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 to the Present
- Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God
- Objects of Empire: the material worlds of British colonialism
- Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Illness
- Pre-Raphaelites and Aesthetes: Progressive British Culture (1840-1898)
- Queering the Past - Level 3
- Renaissance Cities
- Revolutionary Ideas in Tudor and Stuart Britain: Republicanism, Regicide and Liberty
- 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 Philosophy of Language L6
- The US Civil Rights Movement
- Un/freedoms in Caribbean Colonial Societies
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA 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 £5,000 less than the UK median for History.
What do graduates of BA History at University of Lincoln do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA History at University of Lincoln?
92% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA History at University of Lincoln?
The typical offer is BCC at A level, or 29 points in the IB. The average entrant had 114 UCAS points.
Does BA 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 History at University of Lincoln?
93% of students continued into their second year, and 7% left higher education.