English Literature and History (Hons) University of Huddersfield

Overview

On the English Literature side, you’ll explore hundreds of years of writing—from Elizabethan drama and Victorian novels to modernist works and contemporary poetry—developing critical, analytical, and creative thinking skills. History covers a wide range of eras and events, from medieval societies to modern empires, covering such topics as witchcraft, warfare and the suffrage movement, helping you understand how the past shapes the present.

Your Career

As an English Literature and History graduate, you are valued for the advanced skills you have developed in analysis and communication, self-motivation, teamwork, creative problem solving and persuasiveness. Studying history alongside English allows you to keep your career options open.

Graduates of the English Literature and History (Hons) at University of Huddersfield have gone on to a variety of careers within teaching, writing, local government, archives, the media, PR, law, politics and accountancy.

A selection of organisations that have employed Huddersfield graduates in recent years include BBC, Roma Publication, Emerald Group Publishing, House of Commons, the Civil Service, Royal Armouries Museum, National Mining Museum and British Red Cross. Others have opted for PGCE study and have become teachers, or continued their studies at Master's level.