BA English Literature and History
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Literature and History. Core topics include Research Methods and Fieldwork. The programme includes a semester abroad or a short placement in a cultural, heritage or media organisation during the second year. Modules range from Anglo-Saxon and medieval studies to contemporary fiction and modern history.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAB including English Literature or one of the subjects listed below.
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What students say
Based on about 41 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 94%
- Learning opportunities: 88%
- Assessment and feedback: 87%
- Academic support: 97%
- Organisation and management: 85%
- Learning resources: 92%
- Student voice: 80%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 110 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 93%
- Left higher education: 7%
What graduates do next
Based on about 71 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 57%
- Working and studying: 13%
- Further study: 15%
- Unemployed: 4%
Most common jobs
- Administrative occupations: 18%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 17%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Elementary occupations: 10%
- Sales occupations: 7%
- Find their work meaningful: 77%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 54%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 44%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 200 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 1%
- North West: 2%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 3%
- East Midlands: 8%
- West Midlands: 1%
- East of England: 45%
- London: 21%
- South East: 14%
- South West: 2%
- Wales: 1%
- Scotland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 105 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 93%
- Baccalaureate: 1%
- Access course: 3%
- Other HE qualification: 1%
- Other qualifications: 3%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS
- EPIC STORYTELLING AND ANCIENT MYTH
- WRITING ACROSS BORDERS
- THE RISE OF THE MACHINES: WRITING AND READING IN THE AGE OF AI
- INTRODUCTION TO EARLY MODERN HISTORY
- INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL HISTORY
- INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
- HISTORY'S STORIES
- VICTORIAN WRITING
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- EUROPEAN LITERATURE
- CRITICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
- SHAKESPEARE (PRE-1789)
- MEDIEVAL WRITING: QUEST, FABLE AND ROMANCE (PRE-1789)
- LITERATURE STUDIES SEMESTER ABROAD (SPRING)
- ROMANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS: 1740-1830
- EARLY MODERN WRITING 1600-1740: THE MAKING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (PRE-1789)
- MODERNISM: THE ART OF EXPERIMENT
- ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C. 400-1066
- LIFE AND ART IN THE JEWISH DIASPORA
- FRANCE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE BELLE ÉPOQUE
- NAPOLEON TO STALIN (AND BEYOND): THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE
- LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
- GLOBAL SUPERPOWER: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 1898
- THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1066 TO 1600
- BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1890
- THE LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD 300-1000
- THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE
- THE COLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- PROPAGANDA
- JAPAN IN MODERN TIMES
- DISEASES, EPIDEMICS AND HISTORY
- FROM STALIN TO PUTIN: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE WAR
- SEMESTER STUDY ABROAD (SPRING SEMSTER)
- GEORGIAN BRITAIN AND IRELAND
- THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITISH POWER
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN, 1914 TO THE PRESENT
- NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET ENGLAND
- STUART ENGLAND
- THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CITIZENS, SLAVES, AND IMPERIAL FAMILIES
- BRITISH INDIA: EMPIRE, NATION AND THE PEOPLE IN SOUTH ASIA
- HERITAGE AND PUBLIC HISTORY
- HISTORY OF MODERN ITALY
- THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 4000BC TO 1066AD
- VICTORIAN BRITAIN
- THE WRITING OF JOURNALISM (AUT)
- CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION (SPR)
- THE SHORT STORY (AUT)
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
- MAKING IT PUBLIC: PUBLISHING, AUDIENCE, & CREATIVE ENTERPRISE
- READING AND WRITING CONTEMPORARY POETRY
- LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
- MONSTERS, MARVELS AND CREATIVE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE (PRE-1789)
- IMAGINARY ENDINGS: BRITISH FICTION AND THE APOCALYPSE
- THE BIRTH OF THE GOTHIC: ROMANCE, REVOLUTION, EMPIRE
- SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORLDS (PRE-1789)
- BANNED BOOKS
- MYTHOS: REWRITING THE CLASSICS (PRE-1789)
- THE ART OF MURDER
- THE ART OF EMOTION: READING AND WRITING FEELING
- WOMEN'S WRITING IN EARLY-MODERN BRITAIN: THE EMERGENCE OF FEMALE AUTHORSHIP (PRE-1789)
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1804
- THE REIGN OF LOUIS THE FAT: WAR, MURDER, & THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN EARLY TWELFTH-CENTURY FRANCE
- THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1450 TO 1950
- THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
- TEACHING HISTORY
- THE CULT OF VIOLENCE: THE FASCIST REGIMES OF ITALY, GERMANY AND JAPAN, 1922-1945
- RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION 1905-1921
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPORT HISTORY
- ROBIN HOOD: THE MEDIEVAL OUTLAW IN HISTORY AND LEGEND
- CAMPS IN HISTORY AND MEMORY: THE 20TH CENTURY IN DETENTIONS, MIGRATIONS, AND EXPLOITATION
- IN THE MINDS OF SAMURAI, RULERS, REBELS, AND POETS: JAPAN, 1830-1960
- THE WAY IT WASN'T: HISTORICAL FICTION AND HISTORY
- IRELAND: A LONG HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES
- FIELDWORK IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
- GRAND STRATEGY
- BLOOD AND BRUTALITY: VIOLENCE, THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
- APPEASEMENT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- COMMUNISM AND NATIONALISM IN YUGOSLAVIA
- CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
- A NEW ORDER? THE 1980s BEYOND THATCHER
- DISSERTATION IN HISTORY
- LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (AUT)
- LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (SPR)
- LITERATURE DISSERTATION: (PRE-1789) (SPR)
- LITERATURE DISSERTATION: (PRE-1789) (AUT)
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English Literature and History at University of East Anglia earn?
The median salary is £26,500 after 15 months, £23,500 after 3 years, £29,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £24,000 and £34,500. The £29,000 median after five years is £1,000 more than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA English Literature and History at University of East Anglia 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 English Literature and History at University of East Anglia?
94% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English Literature and History at University of East Anglia?
The typical offer is AAB at A level. The average entrant had 113 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA English Literature and History at University of East Anglia?
93% of students continued into their second year, and 7% left higher education.