Bachelor of Arts - History and International Relations (Honours)

BA (Hons) History and International Relations reads the present through its past: modern political history alongside IR theory, empires and decolonisation beside contemporary global order, war and diplomacy studied both as archive and as ongoing system. The joint structure splits credits between the disciplines across three years, converging in a final-year dissertation that may sit on either side or deliberately bridge them.

Method is the course’s quiet product — historical source criticism trains exactly the evidence-evaluation instinct that international analysis rewards, and assessments alternate between archival research exercises, historiographical essays, IR briefings and negotiation simulations. Staff research in international history feeds specialist options, and the degree’s reading load builds the fast-synthesis capacity that analytical employers test.

The export records January 2027 and 2028 windows for this joint degree alongside the September cycles — atypical generosity for a humanities course — at the standard £16,800 fee. Students should also note the dissertation’s dual-supervision option, drawing one adviser from each discipline, which produces the bridging projects — archival work on live international questions — that make the strongest writing samples this degree can generate for analytical and research employers, and which several graduates have carried directly into master’s applications and think-tank internship submissions.

Give the outcomes picture without varnish: neither discipline maps to a titled profession, so graduates compete in the analytical-generalist market — research, policy, heritage, media, teaching conversion — at £20,000–£24,000, where demonstrated writing and research craft decide outcomes. The completed honours degree qualifies for the Graduate Route’s 18-month post-2026 allowance, and dependants are excluded on taught undergraduate routes throughout.