BA English and History
About this course
BA in English and History, an English and History degree examining literary texts and historical cultures across multiple eras. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The first year introduces early modern literature and historical research methods through modules such as Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Literature, Writing Revolutions: Restoration to Romanticism, History Workshop, and Thinking Historically. Students can also sample modules from outside the main subjects. The second year progresses to examine language change and public history, featuring compulsory modules like Romantics, Victorians and Moderns (a), Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, History and the Public, and Parchment to Pixels: Interrogating Historical Evidence. The final year focuses on independent research, including the compulsory Project Module 1. Optional modules across the programme allow students to explore diverse topics such as contemporary literature, creative writing, linguistics, and various historical periods.
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Entry requirements
A Level: AAB IB: 34; 33, with B in the extended essay
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Real offers for this course
Applicants have posted 1 UCAS decision for BA English and History (QV31) at the University of Sheffield for 2027 entry so far. The published offer is AAB at A level.
Admissions (2022 entry, home applicants)
Offer rate 96%: 77 offers from 80 applications, from the university's Freedom of Information return.
What students say
Based on about 8 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 93%
- Learning opportunities: 84%
- Assessment and feedback: 80%
- Academic support: 100%
- Organisation and management: 91%
- Learning resources: 97%
- Student voice: 87%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 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 49 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 54%
- Working and studying: 9%
- Further study: 17%
- Unemployed: 8%
Most common jobs
- Teaching Professionals: 25%
- Elementary occupations: 20%
- Administrative occupations: 15%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 10%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 90%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 65%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 40%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 310 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 3%
- North West: 17%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 22%
- East Midlands: 9%
- West Midlands: 5%
- East of England: 8%
- London: 25%
- South East: 5%
- South West: 5%
- Wales: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 10 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Literature
- Writing Revolutions: Restoration to Romanticism
- Contemporary Literature
- Hybrid Forms: Reading Genre
- Wonders, Warriors, and Werewolves: Intro to Medieval Literature and Language
- Reading Theatre and Film
- Myth, Scripture and Story: Biblical and Classical Sources in English Literature
- The Creative Writing Lab
- Darwin, Marx, Freud
- Sounds and Structures of English
- Style in Language
- History of English
- Early Englishes
- Language and Creativity
- Living Englishes
- Linguistic Theory
- History Workshop
- Thinking Historically
- Empire, from the Ancient World to the Early Modern
- Common People: Everyday Lives in Modern Britain and Ireland
- The 'Disenchantment' of Early Modern Europe, c. 1570-1770
- The Long View: an introduction to archaeology
- Beyond Borders? A Deep History of the Connected World
- Try a new subject: The flexible structure of your first year at Sheffield means that you also have the chance to experie
- Romantics, Victorians and Moderns (a)
- English Works: Foundations
- Creative Writing Experiments
- Shakespeare: Page, Stage, Screen
- Hollywood Cinema
- Chaucer
- Good Books: Intertextual Approaches to Literature and the Bible
- The Art and Politics of Hip Hop
- Historical Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Phonetics
- Syntax
- Phonology
- The History of Persuasion
- First Language Acquisition
- Exiles and Monsters: Reading Old English
- Narrative Experiments
- History and the Public
- Parchment to Pixels: Interrogating Historical Evidence
- History and Historians
- Trumpism: An American Biography
- A History of Eastern Africa since 1940
- Byzantine Intersectionality: Gender, Race and Power in the Medieval Mediterranean, c.500-1300
- Life Worth Living
- Gender and the Georgians: Sex and Society in Britain 1714-1837
- Contemporary Crises in Historical Perspective
- From Democracy to Dictatorship: the 1973 coup in Chile
- The Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858-85
- The Putney Debates, October 1647
- A Very British Revolution? The 1926 General Strike
- Murder in the cathedral: the Becket Affair
- Holy Russia, Soviet Empire: Nation, Religion, and Identity in the 20th Century
- The Battle for China's Future, 1839-1949
- Egypt's Golden Empire
- Project Module 1
- The Invention of Romanticism
- Renaissance Literature, Modern Crisis
- Research Topics in Theatre and Film
- Mod Cons: Exploring the Long 20th Century
- Middlemarch
- The Idea of America
- Fin de siècle Gothic
- Creative Writing: The Experimental Text
- Writing Fiction 3
- Chaucer
- Life After Death? Romantic Poets and Writing the Afterlife
- Reading Animals
- Privilege and Subversion in Early Modern Drama, 1580-1700
- Advanced Syntax
- Historical Pragmatics
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Constructed Languages
- Second Language Acquisition
- Psychology of Language
- Project Module 2
- Language and Social Justice
- Short Dissertation
- Permissive Britain? Social and Cultural Change 1956-74
- The World of Intoxicants in Early Modern England
- Cannibals and Christians: Mexico and Spain, c.1492-1600
- The Wars for Vietnam: Empire, Decolonisation and Liberation
- Resistance & Liberation in South Africa: Gandhi to Mandela
- Makers of a New World: Merchants, Scholars and Commoners in Late Medieval Europe
- Merchants, Pirates and Planters: The English Overseas, 1570-1624
- The National Security State, Treason, and Individual Rights during the Twentieth Century
- Italy in the Age of Dante, ca. 1200-1350
- The World Transformed? The League of Nations and the End of Empire, 1919-46
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English and History at University of Sheffield earn?
The median salary is £28,500 after 15 months, £24,500 after 3 years, £31,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £25,500 and £40,000. The £31,000 median after five years is £2,000 more than the UK median for English studies.
What do graduates of BA English and History at University of Sheffield do next?
80% 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 University of Sheffield?
93% 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 University of Sheffield?
The typical offer is AAB at A level. The average entrant had 141 UCAS points.
What is the offer rate for BA English and History at University of Sheffield?
96% of home applicants received an offer for 2022 entry: 77 offers from 80 applications, according to the university's Freedom of Information return.
Does BA English and History at University of Sheffield include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year and an optional year abroad.
How many students continue on BA English and History at University of Sheffield?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.