BA Modern History
About this course
BA (Hons) Modern History is an undergraduate history degree centred on the political, social, cultural, and economic transformations that have shaped the world since the late eighteenth century. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Project Management, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students have the option to undertake a placement year. The first year covers foundational themes and methods through compulsory modules such as The Modern World: People and Global Change, A History of New, Britain in the Making: A History of Early Modern and Modern Britain, and Empires: Power and Resistance. In the second year, students build research and project management skills with Designing your Independent Study and Humanities in Action, while tailoring their studies through optional modules covering topics such as authoritarian regimes, digital heritage, and migration. The final year centres on an extended independent study project alongside specialized optional modules exploring subjects like the nuclear age, material culture, and the US Civil Rights Movement.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 29 points overall
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What students say
Based on about 12 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 97%
- Learning opportunities: 85%
- Assessment and feedback: 89%
- Academic support: 94%
- Organisation and management: 72%
- Learning resources: 77%
- Student voice: 75%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 25 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 90%
- Left higher education: 10%
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
- 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: 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: 95%
- Other HE qualification: 5%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Gold for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- The Modern World: People and Global Change
- A History of Now
- 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
- Collections Care and Management
- Decolonising the Past
- Digital Heritage
- Environmental Philosophy
- Fighting for Peace? Politics, Society and War in the Modern Era
- Images of the self: modernity and the portrait
- Imperial Worlds, Colonial Lives
- Industry Placement
- Making and Meaning; History through Objects
- Material Histories: Objects, Interpretation, Display
- Moral Philosophy
- People on the move: migration, identity and mobility in the modern world
- Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Perversion
- 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 Global Cold War
- The Global Renaissance
- 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
- Consuming Societies: Western Europe 1600-1800
- Environmental Philosophy
- 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
- Hong Kong since 1841: From British colony to Chinese city
- Humanities Work Placement
- Medicalised Bodies in Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 to the Present
- Objects of Empire: the material worlds of British colonialism
- Philosophy of Love, Sex and Perversion
- Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Illness
- Queer Film and Television
- Queering the Past - Level 3
- 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
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Modern 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 Modern 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 Modern History at University of Lincoln?
97% 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 at University of Lincoln?
The typical offer is BBC at A level, or 29 points in the IB. The average entrant had 105 UCAS points.
Does BA Modern 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 Modern History at University of Lincoln?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 10% left higher education.