BA Art History and History
About this course
BA in History and History of Art, combining both disciplines across a three-year undergraduate programme. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. Teaching takes place in Manchester, incorporating local galleries and museums such as the Whitworth and the Manchester Museum.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAA including History
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What students say
Based on about 24 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 92%
- Learning opportunities: 85%
- Assessment and feedback: 75%
- Academic support: 88%
- Organisation and management: 84%
- Learning resources: 96%
- Student voice: 86%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 40 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 70 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 66%
- Working and studying: 11%
- Further study: 7%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 18%
- Administrative occupations: 12%
- Elementary occupations: 11%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 9%
- Sales occupations: 6%
- Find their work meaningful: 65%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 52%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 290 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 1%
- North West: 27%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 4%
- East Midlands: 2%
- West Midlands: 6%
- East of England: 2%
- London: 42%
- South East: 8%
- South West: 4%
- Wales: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 30 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 95%
- Foundation course: 5%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- History in Practice
- Ice Age to Baroque: Artworks in History
- Rococo to Now: Artworks in History
- A Global Nation: Power, Politics, and Struggle Across the American Century, 1870-2020
- Constructing Archaic Greek History
- From Republic to Empire: Introduction to Roman History, Society & Culture 218-31BC
- The Odyssey
- Cities and Citizens
- Discoveries and Discoverers: Sights and Sites
- Virgil's Aeneid
- Introduction to the History and Culture of Pharaonic Egypt
- Art Spaces
- Art History Tutorial 1
- Art History Tutorial 2
- Modern China: from the Opium Wars to the Olympic Games
- Histories of the Islamic World
- Capitalism in Historical Perspective: 1700-1913
- Imperial Nation: Empire and the Making of Modern Britain, 1783-1902
- An Introduction to the Medieval World
- Forging a New World: Europe c.1450-1750
- States, Nations and Empires. Europe, c.1750-1914
- Science & the Modern World
- Bodies in History: An introduction to the History of Medicine
- Science and the Modern World (20 Credits)
- Japanese History and Civilisation
- Empire and Culture in East Asia
- The History and Sociopolitics of Palestine/Israel (1882-1967)
- History and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
- Standing on The Shoulders of Giants: Foundations for Study in The Arts
- Humanities in Public: The Politics and Value(s) of Knowledge
- Art in Theory
- European Art History Fieldtrip
- The Conquering Hero: The Life, Times and Legacy of Alexander The Great
- The Roman Empire 31BC - AD313 Rome's Golden Age
- Politics and Society in Classical Greece
- Roman Women in 22 Objects
- Weimar Culture? Art, Film and Politics in Germany, 1918-33
- British Art and The Environment, 1800–1900
- Art Markets
- The Art of Late Medieval Italy: Commerce, Religion, Travel
- Renaissance and Baroque Architecture 1450-1750
- Surrealism, Gender, Sexuality
- Digital Ways of Seeing: Theory and Practice
- Making of the Modern Mind: European Intellectual History in a Global Context
- Winds of Change: Politics, Society and Culture in Britain, 1899 -1990
- Independent Research Project
- Late Imperial China: the Great Wall and Beyond
- The Cultural History of Modern War
- Colonial Encounters: Race, Violence, and the Making of the Modern World
- Back to the Future: The Uses and Abuses of History
- Histories of the Islamic World
- Capitalism in Historical Perspective: 1700-1913
- A Transnational History of Europe in the Short Twentieth Century, c.1917-1991
- Revolutionary Cities: The Urban World of the Middle Ages
- From Cholera to COVID-19: A Global History of Epidemics
- The Crisis of Nature: Issues in Environmental History
- In Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science Fiction in Literature and Film.
- Aesthetics and Politics of Italian Fascism
- The Italian Renaissance
- Core Themes in Animated Film and Visual Culture of Postwar Japan
- Themes in the Histories of Arab and Jewish Nationalisms
- 100 Years of Revolution: from Lenin's Soviet Union to Putin's Russia
- The Revolutions of 1989 and their Aftermaths: Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
- American Hauntings
- History of Art Dissertation
- Victorian Bodies: Art, Science, and Modernity 1848 - 1901
- Art and Ecology: Bodies, Environments and Technology
- Digital Art
- Architecture of Devotion: Art, Architecture and Material Culture in Early Modern Italy and Beyond
- Art After Modernism: Approaching Contemporary Art
- Picasso
- The Art of European Medieval Books
- History Dissertation
- Wealth and Welfare: Reconceptualising British Economy and Society between 1832 and 1942
- China and the West: the Age of Empire and Beyond
- Heroes and Holy Men: The Irish Sea World in the Viking Age, c. 780-1100
- The Holocaust: History, Historiography, Memory
- The Comparative and Transnational History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
- John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1960s
- Defining the Deviant: Crime and British Society, 1888-2000
- Ceaseless Revolution: France, 1781-1871
- The Black Freedom Movement, 1955-1975
- Pirates: The Sea, The Empire and The Other
- The Normans and the Kingdom of Sicily in the Mediterranean World (1000-1200)
- From New Left to New Times: Socialist Ideas in Post-War Britain
- Black Britain: Power, Neighbourhoods and the Everyday, 1948-1990
- Africa and Development: A Political History of the Social Sciences
- Cultural Entanglements: Life and Death in Colonial America
- The Anglo-American Connection & National Identity in the long C19: Race, Reform & National Identity
- Contesting Hitler's Empire:Resistance,Collaboration,and Mass Violence in Occupied Europe (1939–1945)
- Vanished: Histories of Extinction from the Mammoth to Extinction Rebellion
- Global China in the Second World War
- Democracy and Authoritarianism in Latin America’s Twentieth Century
- The Nuclear Age: Global Nuclear Threats from Hiroshima to Today
- From Sherlock Holmes to CSI: a History of Forensic Science and Medicine
- Climate Change & Society
- Madness and Society
- Tools and Techniques for Enterprise
- Tools & Techniques for Enterprise
- Enterprise Feasibility
- Culture, Media and Politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia
- History of the Spanish Atlantic World: Empire, Trade, War
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Art History and History at University of Manchester earn?
The median salary is £27,000 after 15 months, £26,000 after 3 years, £33,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £25,500 and £42,500. The £33,000 median after five years is £2,500 more than the UK median for History.
What do graduates of BA Art History and History at University of Manchester do next?
84% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Art History and History at University of Manchester?
92% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Art History and History at University of Manchester?
The typical offer is AAA at A level. The average entrant had 151 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Art History and History at University of Manchester?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.