History

History is the discipline through which we make sense of the human past. It asks how we can reconstruct and understand events, movements, and lives from the sources that survive them, and what those events can tell us about the structures, ideas, and contingencies that have shaped the world we inhabit. Studying history means developing close reading skills, the ability to evaluate conflicting evidence, and the capacity to write sustained analytical arguments about complex causal questions.

These are transferable skills of the highest value.

At the University of Huddersfield, studying history enables you to put yourself and your society into perspective, establishing connections between the events, ideas, and people that built past and present worlds. You will engage with different approaches to history, and work with primary source materials in dynamic and innovative ways. The programme is part time, which allows you to develop your historical knowledge and skills at a pace compatible with other commitments.

It includes a sandwich year and a work placement, which are notable features for a part-time history programme and give you the opportunity to apply your research and communication skills in professional contexts. The programme has no fixed entry tariff or duration listed, and admissions consider a range of qualifications and experience.

You will study history across different periods, geographies, and thematic concerns, developing the ability to work across different scales of analysis and to engage with diverse types of primary source, from documents and statistics to visual and material culture. The skills you build, reading carefully, weighing evidence, arguing from sources, and writing clearly, are applicable across many professional fields.

Graduates from history programmes work in education, the civil service, journalism, publishing, heritage and archives, arts administration, law, and a range of roles where research, communication, and analytical thinking are valued. The placement year provides direct professional experience and often opens routes into employment. Further study at postgraduate level in history or related disciplines is another well-established path.