BA English and History
About this course
BA in English and History. Core topics include Historical Research, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Data Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB including A-level English Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 33 points overall, including 6(English),5,5 at Higher Level.
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What students say
Based on about 10 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 92%
- Learning opportunities: 92%
- Assessment and feedback: 83%
- Academic support: 96%
- Organisation and management: 96%
- Learning resources: 100%
- Student voice: 79%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 25 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 9 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 55%
- Working and studying: 15%
- Further study: 25%
Most common jobs
- Teaching Professionals: 18%
- Administrative occupations: 15%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 13%
- Sales occupations: 11%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 5%
- Find their work meaningful: 80%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 65%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Who gets in
Based on about 20 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Modules
- English in Transition
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- Introduction to English Language
- Exploring History 1
- Exploring History 2
- History and Historians: Contested Pasts
- The Long Road to Black Lives Matter
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Politics and Society in 19th Century Ireland
- The American South 1619-1865
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Ireland since partition
- The American South, 1865-1980
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- The Roman Origins of the East and West; From Augustus to Charlemagne
- The Expansion of Medieval Europe, 1000-1300
- The making of contemporary Britain: 1914 to the present
- Revolutionary Europe, 1500-1789
- Nationalism and Liberation in 20th Century Africa
- Alexander The Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic World
- Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world
- Cabinets of Curiosity: Museums Past and Present
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
- America's Aftermaths
- Revolution and Disaster in Ireland and Britain 1603-1707
- An Age of Revolutions: Britain and Ireland, 1688-1815
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- Cities and Edgelands
- The Bible and Modern Fiction
- Poetry from Britain and Irelan
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- That Vast Catastrophe: The Great Irish Famine
- The Origins of Protestantism
- The Soviet Union 1921-1991
- Televising the Victorians
- The Irish Revolution, 1917-1921
- Language in the Media
- Working Class Communities in the UK 1900-1970
- Dissertation
- Double Dissertation English Literature
- Double Dissertation English Language
- United Irishmen and Unionists: the religion and politics of Ulster protestants
- Kings, courts and culture in Carolingian Europe
- Religion and Empire: Christian Missions To Africa, Asia and Middle East
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- The Structure of English
- Crime & Punishment 19th Century Ireland
- The Rise of Christianity 2: The Conversion of the Roman Empire
- Representing the Working Class
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Irish Gothic
- Thatcher's Britain
- Sin Cities? Everyday Life in the Modern Metropolis
- The Ancient City
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Work-based Learning
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Pop Culture and Protest in U.S. History
- Twentieth-Century China
- Paths to Independence and Decolonisation in India and East Africa
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- Diaspora: Irish 19th-century migration
- Extermination: History and Memory of the Murdered Jews of Europe
- War, Politics, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, c.1166-c.1521
- African and Irish Relations in the Americas
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English and History at Queen's University Belfast earn?
The median salary is £24,500 after 15 months. After fifteen months the middle half of graduates earn between £20,000 and £30,000. The £24,500 median after fifteen months is £2,500 less than the UK median for English studies.
What do graduates of BA English and History at Queen's University Belfast do next?
95% 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 Queen's University Belfast?
92% 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 Queen's University Belfast?
The typical offer is ABB at A level, or 33 points in the IB. The average entrant had 153 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA English and History at Queen's University Belfast?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.