BA History and History of Art
About this course
BA (Hons) History and History of Art is an undergraduate degree within the History and History of Art subject area, combining the study of past societies with the visual culture they produced. Core topics include Research Methods. Field trips to cultural institutions across the country provide firsthand experience and professional connections. The first year establishes fundamental competencies through compulsory modules such as Art History Now, Materials of Art and Architecture, Transmissions and Connections, Knowledge and Beliefs in World History, Evidence and Methods, Political Communities in World History, and Societies and Economies in World History. The second year builds on this foundation with compulsory study in Art and Its Institutions and Historical Thinking, alongside a wide range of optional topics such as Indo-British Art, c.1527-1947, Surrealism: Art and Liberty, and Crime and Society in Britain and Ireland since 1750. In the final year, students complete a History Dissertation and a History of Art Dissertation, complemented by further optional study in areas such as Empires, Violence, and Animals.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAB including an A in either History or Classical Civilisation IB: 35 points, including 6 in History at Higher Level BTEC: DDD with an additional A Level or equivalent qualification in either History or Classical Civilisation at grade A
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What students say
Based on about 9 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 98%
- Learning opportunities: 90%
- Assessment and feedback: 90%
- Academic support: 95%
- Organisation and management: 85%
- Learning resources: 100%
- Student voice: 90%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 10 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 100%
What graduates do next
Based on about 70 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 56%
- Working and studying: 21%
- Further study: 13%
- Unemployed: 4%
Most common jobs
- Elementary occupations: 14%
- Teaching Professionals: 12%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 10%
- Administrative occupations: 10%
- Sales occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 85%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 65%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 330 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 4%
- North West: 7%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 20%
- East Midlands: 5%
- West Midlands: 5%
- East of England: 13%
- London: 27%
- South East: 10%
- South West: 4%
- Wales: 2%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 60 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 93%
- Other HE qualification: 4%
- Other qualifications: 3%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Gold for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Art History Now
- Materials of Art and Architecture
- Transmissions and Connections
- Knowledge and Beliefs in World History
- Evidence and Methods
- Political Communities in World History
- Societies and Economies in World History
- Art and Its Institutions
- Historical Thinking
- Indo-British Art, c.1527-1947
- Journeys, Histories, and Methods of Display
- Tradition and Innovation
- Three Rogue Architects
- Images as Knowledge
- Made in Italy
- The Arts of Italy and the Global Renaissance
- Surrealism: Art and Liberty
- What is Pop Art?
- Art and Politics: Global Conceptualisms
- Art in the USA 1942-1975
- Interwoven: Fashion and Clothing Communities in Art History (1800 - the Present)
- Camera South Asia
- The English Country House
- Painting in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Image and Icon: Rendering Visible the Sacred in the Early Medieval World
- Telling Tales: Narrative Art in Medieval Europe and Beyond
- The Future is Still Female: Art and Feminism since the 1970s
- From Brick into Stone: Islamic Architecture in Anatolia During the Long Thirteenth Century
- Material Encounters in Northern Renaissance Art
- Art in Renaissance Florence: Materials, Making, Agency
- Contemplation, Knowledge and Power: Medieval Maps
- Art Law
- Empire and Cultural Exchange in Asia 1500-1700
- Black Radicalism
- Ancien Régime France, 1610-1789
- Before the Mongols: Nomadic Empires of Central Eurasia, 900-1200
- Using and Abusing the Past in Britain, 1835-2018
- Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
- Health for all? International Health from Colonial Medicine to Covid Vaccine
- Powerful Impressions: Culture and Politics in the Post-1945 United States
- Heterosexual Africa? Sexuality, Power, and Politics in Africa since 1900
- Persecution and Toleration in Early Modern Britain
- Catherine the Great
- Social Science and Modern Britain, c1880-c1970
- Crime and Society in Britain and Ireland since 1750
- Bankers, Merchants, and Poets: Florence and the Roots of the Renaissance
- Communist Europe: Crisis, Transformation & Memory after the Second World War
- Historical Fictions and Frictions: Fictionalising the Past
- Chivalry, Identity and Love 1350-1450
- Vikings and Historians: Historiographical Dialogues through the Ages
- The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700
- Containing Multitudes: Inequality and the City in Britain and its Empire post-1800
- History Dissertation
- History of Art Dissertation
- Art and Politics: Global Conceptualisms
- Art in the USA 1942-1975
- Tradition and Innovation
- Three Rogue Architects
- Images as Knowledge
- Made in Italy
- The Arts of Italy and the Global Renaissance
- Surrealism: Art and Liberty
- What is Pop Art?
- Interwoven: Fashion and Clothing Communities in Art History (1800 - the Present)
- Camera South Asia
- The English Country House
- Painting in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Image and Icon: Rendering Visible the Sacred in the Early Medieval World
- Telling Tales: Narrative Art in Medieval Europe and Beyond
- The Future is Still Female: Art and Feminism since the 1970s
- From Brick into Stone: Islamic Architecture in Anatolia During the Long Thirteenth Century
- Material Encounters in Northern Renaissance Art
- Art in Renaissance Florence: Materials, Making, Agency
- Contemplation, Knowledge and Power: Medieval Maps
- Art Law
- Empires
- Violence
- Animals
- Commemorations
- Travel
- Beauty
- Communisms
- From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth-Century Caribbean
- Imperial Japan, 1890-1950
- Popular Politics? The History of British Political Culture since 1945
- The French Wars of Religion
- Race, Place and Health in Britain and its Empire, 1880-1960
- Hong Kong: Decolonisation and Development, 1945-97
- Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35
- Ploughing the Sea? The Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1750-1830
- Rome Reborn: Culture and Society c.1575-c.1655
- Prussia and the Unification of Germany, 1815-1918
- Mao and Maoism
- Reading and Writing in Medieval England
- Exiled Lives: English Nuns in Catholic Europe, 1600-1800
- Poverty and the Welfare State in Post-War Britain
- Joan of Arc
- Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, & Religious Ferment, c.1200
- Francis Bacon: Myth, Magic and Morals
- Black British History and Decolonisation
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA History and History of Art at University of York earn?
The median salary is £29,000 after 15 months, £25,500 after 3 years, £32,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £26,000 and £43,500. The £32,000 median after five years is £1,500 more than the UK median for History.
What do graduates of BA History and History of Art at University of York do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA History and History of Art at University of York?
98% 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 History of Art at University of York?
The typical offer is AAB at A level, or 35 points in the IB. The average entrant had 139 UCAS points.
Does BA History and History of Art at University of York 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 History and History of Art at University of York?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.