History - Placement Year (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Throughout the  History - Placement Year (Hons)  course from Lancaster University  you’ll explore the challenges that confront our world. You'll build the skills to hunt down and analyse evidence to solve these challenges, making your home in a city whose castle, cathedral and cobbled streets are part of the stories you’ll discover.

team of expert historians will guide you through hands-on training in primary source analysis, with one-to-one advice and feedback from expert historians. From your first days at Lancaster, you’ll build your skills, knowledge and confidence in source analysis, critical thinking and argument.

You’ll learn how to understand the world of others: their cultures, values and beliefs. You’ll observe how individuals coalesce – into families, mobs and gangs, into companies and unions, into parties, armies, nations and empires – and know why and how these units break apart.

From the medieval world to the twenty-first century, across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa you'll learn how to master understanding of a place, from villages to cities, countries and continents. You’ll see how landscapes have shaped peoples and been shaped in turn, and how populations and lands are ravaged and reformed by war, famine, and flood. And you’ll learn how money, knowledge and technology, people and disease, are moved from one place to the next around the world.

You’ll understand how societies across history have struggled with what it means to be human – how to cure and how to die, when to pardon and to kill, the balance of our rights and what we owe to others.

As a historian, you’ll have honed a special skill: how to seek out evidence, and how to analyse and interpret it – from laws, letters and diaries to paintings, photographs and maps, and physical remnants such as buildings and burial places. Sifting false claims and faulty data, you’ll reveal what that evidence can tell us. With your discoveries, you’ll build the big interpretations that illuminate how humanity carves out its course.

Career opportunities:

Our world is changing: geopolitical challenges, advances in technology, and demographic transformations create new jobs and reshape existing roles.

As a History graduate, you’ll be skilled in analysing and interpreting evidence, confident, flexible, quick to learn new skills and able to communicate your analysis to others. You’ll know how to present a case with the explanatory power to change another person’s view of the world.

With your awareness of societies across the world, you’ll have the cultural dexterity for a leadership role in government, business or the third sector. Historians are in demand as cabinet ministers, government advisors, intelligence operatives and diplomats, as leaders of the armed forces, in the charity sector and in business, banking and investment analysis.

You'll also develop a high level of creative skills during your History degree: you’ll know how to excite, inspire and inform, how to find the stories that enthral, how to craft your interpretations in nimble prose, and how to win round your audience with expertise and confidence. These talents are prized in the creative sector: in heritage and the arts, in journalism and marketing and as writers and editors.

Previous graduates have pursued successful careers in:

• Government
• The Armed Forces
• Banking and Finance
• Business and Marketing
• Creative Industries, including Computer Gaming
• Journalism
• Teaching
• Academia
• Heritage and Museums

team of expert historians will guide you through hands-on training in primary source analysis, with one-to-one advice and feedback from expert historians. From your first days at Lancaster, you’ll build your skills, knowledge and confidence in source analysis, critical thinking and argument.

You’ll learn how to understand the world of others: their cultures, values and beliefs. You’ll observe how individuals coalesce – into families, mobs and gangs, into companies and unions, into parties, armies, nations and empires – and know why and how these units break apart.