BA in History and English Literature

This joint honours course allows you to explore the richness of English literature alongside the great variety of human history around the world. Discover a thousand years of history whilst experiencing all the specialist areas on offer at the University of Reading. The History Department's expertise covers a wide range of world regions from Europe and Africa to America, South Asia and the Middle East and historical periods, with module choices ranging from the Crusades to the 1960s, slavery in America to Tudor monarchy and Cold War Berlin to medieval magic. In your English Literature modules, you will read more of authors and genres that you already know (from tragedy to Gothic, from Shakespeare and Dickens to Plath and Beckett). But you will also encounter aspects of literary studies that you may not know so well, from children s literature to publishing studies and the history of the book. Our academics have published research on everything from medieval poetry to contemporary Caribbean and American fiction.