BA Modern History and Politics
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations and History, combining political analysis with historical study across the modern era. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Global & Comparative Perspective, Project Management, and Entrepreneurship. The degree spans three years and culminates in an independent study dissertation, for which students receive dedicated research and project management preparation. Modules cover areas such as comparative politics, empires, gender and sexuality, migration, and nationalism.
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Entry requirements
A level: BCC to BBC IB: 29 points overall.
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What students say
Based on about 51 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 93%
- Learning opportunities: 87%
- Assessment and feedback: 93%
- Academic support: 97%
- Organisation and management: 72%
- Learning resources: 88%
- Student voice: 77%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 105 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 91%
- Left higher education: 9%
What graduates do next
Based on about 25 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 55%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Further study: 25%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Customer service occupations: 10%
- Welfare and housing associate professionals: 10%
- Protective service occupations: 10%
- Administrative occupations: 10%
- Teaching and Childcare Support Occupation: 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 95 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 86%
- Baccalaureate: 1%
- Access course: 1%
- A degree: 1%
- Other HE qualification: 11%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Gold for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- Forging the Modern State
- People, Power and Politics
- Skills for Social and Political Sciences
- The Historian’s Craft
- The Modern World: People and Global Change
- A History of Now
- Britain in the Making: A History of Early Modern and Modern Britain
- Comparative Politics in the 21st Century
- Empires: Power and Resistance
- Age Of Extremes: Fascists And Dictators
- Accessing Ordinary Lives: Interpreting and Understanding Voices from the Past, 1880 – present
- Decolonising the Past
- Designing your Independent Study
- Digital Heritage
- Fighting for Peace? Politics, Society and War in the Modern Era
- Gender and Sexuality in Britain 1700-1950
- Governing America
- Humanities in Action
- Imperial Worlds, Colonial Lives
- Material Histories: Objects, Interpretation, Display
- Nations and Nationalism
- People on the move: migration, identity and mobility in the modern world
- Political Parties
- Power, Sex and Sexuality
- Queering the Past
- Sport and Society in the Modern World
- Study Period Abroad: History
- Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice
- The Global Cold War
- The Vigilant State: intelligence and national security
- Thinking International Relations
- Thinking Politics
- Transnational Security Studies
- Victorian Worlds: Literature 1830-1914
- Working in Politics and International Relations
- Air War and Society from Zeppelins to the Bomb
- Body Politics
- Central Asia in Global Politics
- Eugenics, Race and Reproduction across the Atlantic, 1800-1945
- Exhibiting the World in the Nineteenth Century
- Fallout Nation: The United States and the Nuclear Age
- History Independent Study Part 2
- History Independent Study Part I
- Hong Kong since 1841: From British colony to Chinese city
- Humanities Work Placement
- International Relations of the Middle East
- Masculinity, Gender and Power
- Medicalised Bodies in Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 to the Present
- Migration and Borders in the UK and Europe
- Objects of Empire: the material worlds of British colonialism
- Parliamentary Studies
- Politics and its Discontents
- Queering the Past - Level 3
- Race and Racism
- 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 US Civil Rights Movement
- Un/freedoms in Caribbean Colonial Societies
- War Crimes and Genocide
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Modern History and Politics 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 £8,500 less than the UK median for Politics.
What do graduates of BA Modern History and Politics 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 Modern History and Politics at University of Lincoln?
93% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Modern History and Politics at University of Lincoln?
The typical offer is BCC at A level, or 29 points in the IB. The average entrant had 109 UCAS points.
Does BA Modern History and Politics at University of Lincoln include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year.
How many students continue on BA Modern History and Politics at University of Lincoln?
91% of students continued into their second year, and 9% left higher education.