BA History and Politics
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations and History. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, and Fieldwork. Modules span from Anglo-Saxon England to contemporary international relations. Students select their own pathway after an initial foundation in both disciplines.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB
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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: 91%
- Learning opportunities: 73%
- Assessment and feedback: 83%
- Academic support: 95%
- Organisation and management: 75%
- Learning resources: 85%
- Student voice: 74%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 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 71 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 57%
- Working and studying: 13%
- Further study: 15%
- Unemployed: 4%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 25%
- Elementary occupations: 20%
- Administrative occupations: 10%
- Welfare and housing associate professionals: 5%
- Teaching Professionals: 5%
- 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 20 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
- INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
- POWER, (DIS)ORDER & SECURITY: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 1
- RIGHTS & WRONGS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
- DOING HISTORY
- GLOBALISATION, GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 2
- THE AGE OF EXTREMES: WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1914
- THE CATASTROPHIC FOURTEENTH CENTURY
- WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND BELIEF IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
- HISTORY'S STORIES
- ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C. 400-1066
- FRANCE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE BELLE ÉPOQUE
- SLAVERY IN THE USA, 1619-1865
- ANALYSING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: FROM REALISM TO POSTCOLONIALISM
- LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
- INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS FOR POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- MODERN GERMANY, 1914-1990
- POLITICS IN THE USA
- U.S. EMPIRE
- BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1890
- THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE
- LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
- GENDER AND POWER
- FROM STALIN TO PUTIN: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE WAR
- THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITISH POWER
- COOPERATION AND CRISIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
- HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
- TUDOR ENGLAND
- THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CITIZENS, SLAVES, AND IMPERIAL FAMILIES
- WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- 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
- LIFE AND ART IN THE JEWISH DIASPORA
- NAPOLEON TO STALIN (AND BEYOND): THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE
- POLITICAL VIOLENCE & CONFLICT: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
- ANATOMY OF A CITY: PARIS, 1682-1815
- THE SILK ROADS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND ART HISTORY OF EURASIAN TRADE NETWORKS IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD
- GLOBAL SUPERPOWER: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 1898
- THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1066 TO 1600
- POWER, WEALTH AND NATIONS: GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
- THE LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD 300-1000
- THE COLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- PROPAGANDA
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- PIRATES, SEAFARERS, SHIPWRECK C. 1500-1750: THE PERILS OF THE SEA
- JAPAN IN MODERN TIMES
- DISEASES, EPIDEMICS AND HISTORY
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN, 1914 TO THE PRESENT
- NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET ENGLAND
- STATES, INSTITUTIONS AND CITIZENS
- INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
- STUART ENGLAND
- THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY
- THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- VICTORIAN BRITAIN
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I - A2+ CEFR
- INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I
- BEGINNERS' CHINESE I
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN I - A1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I - A1.1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' ITALIAN I - A1 CEFR
- ADVANCED ENGLISH I
- INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I - A2+ CEFR
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC II
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH II - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS RUSSIAN I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' ITALIAN II - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH II - A2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I (SPRING START) - A1 CEFR
- ADVANCED ENGLISH II - B2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE II
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN II - A2 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE II
- INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II - B1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I (SPRING START)
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II - B1 CEFR
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II B1 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN II - A1.2 CEFR
- BEGINNERS' CHINESE II
- 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 CULT OF VIOLENCE: THE FASCIST REGIMES OF ITALY, GERMANY AND JAPAN, 1922-1945
- BLOOD AND BRUTALITY: VIOLENCE, THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
- APPEASEMENT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- COMMUNISM AND NATIONALISM IN YUGOSLAVIA
- A NEW ORDER? THE 1980s BEYOND THATCHER
- DISSERTATION IN HISTORY
- DIGITAL POLITICS
- NATIONALISM IN EUROPE SINCE 1789: SHAPING IDENTITIES IN THE AGE OF MODERNITY
- BLACK INTERNATIONALISM
- DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
- THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- TEACHING HISTORY
- POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE
- BETTER WORLDS? UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPORT HISTORY
- CAMPS IN HISTORY AND MEMORY: THE 20TH CENTURY IN DETENTIONS, MIGRATIONS, AND EXPLOITATION
- THE WAY IT WASN'T: HISTORICAL FICTION AND HISTORY
- DATA, POLITICS AND SOCIETY
- IRELAND: A LONG HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES
- PARLIAMENTARY STUDIES
- FIELDWORK IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
- POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY OF THE INDO-PACIFIC
- THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE: ROMANCE AND REALITY
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1804
- DANCING ON THE VOLCANO: ART AND CULTURE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
- THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
- DISSERTATION OR RESEARCH PROJECT IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- MULTICULTURALISM
- GREENING THE WORLD: THE POLITICS OF ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
- DEATH IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- IN THE MINDS OF SAMURAI, RULERS, REBELS, AND POETS: JAPAN, 1830-1960
- WEAPONS OF WAR
- A WORLD ENTWINED: TRAVELLERS, ACTIVISTS, AND REBELS OF THE TRANSNATIONAL 20TH CENTURY
- RHETORIC: DEMOCRACY AND THE POLITICS OF PERSUASION
- US INTERVENTIONISM, THE CIA AND COVERT ACTION
- ACTIVIST CAMPAIGNING
- CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS
- CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA History and Politics 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 £5,000 less than the UK median for Politics.
What do graduates of BA History and Politics 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 History and Politics at University of East Anglia?
91% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA History and Politics at University of East Anglia?
The typical offer is ABB at A level. The average entrant had 109 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA History and Politics at University of East Anglia?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 10% left higher education.