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English and History at University of Portsmouth - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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This course is subject to validation. You can still apply for this course while it is being approved.

University of Portsmouth has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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Course summary

With expert-led teaching, archival research, and hands-on analysis, this BA (Hons) English and History degree equips you with the critical tools to question, interpret, and engage with the world around you. Explore the ideas and events that have shaped societies across time. Investigate power, identity, and conflict through the lens of history and the written word. Examine how narratives shape our understanding of the past and present—and how you can challenge them to build a better future. This is a Connected Degree Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course. This is a new course and we’re currently finalising the detailed information for this page. You can still see entry requirements and apply.

Modules

Year 1 Core modules

  • Beliefs, Communities and Conflict: Europe 1400-1750 - 20 credits
  • Body Politics - 40 credits
  • Global Identities - 20 credits
  • Traces of the Past: Exploring Lives Through Sources - 40 credits
Year 2 Optional modules
  • Age of Crisis: European Culture in the Twentieth Century - 20 credits
  • Bloody Shakespeare - 20 credits
  • Crime Writing - 20 credits
  • Debating the Past (History) OR Literary Prizes and Public Acclaim (English) - 20 credits (Optional Core)
  • Empire and Its Afterlives in Britain, France and Africa - 20 credits
  • Research in Practice (English Literature) OR Working with the Past (History) - 20 credits (Optional Core)
  • Space, Place and Being - 20 credits
  • The Hidden Lives of Things: Material Culture in the Early Modern World - 20 credits
  • Underworlds: Crime, Deviance and Punishment in Britain, 1500-1900 - 20 credits
  • Women’s Writing in the Americas - 20 credits
Year 3 Core modules
  • Dissertation/Major Project - 40
Optional modules
  • Consuming Fictions: Food and Appetite in Victorian Culture - 20 credits
  • Holocaust Literatures - 20 credits
  • Magical Realism - 20 credits
  • Specialist Option: Empires and Identities - 20 credits
  • Specialist Option: Everyday Life, Extraordinary Lives - 20 credits
  • Specialist Option: Popular Cultures - 20 credits
  • Specialist Option: Societies in Revolution - 20 credits
  • The Gothic - 20 credits
  • Time, Temporality, Contemporary Fiction - 20 credits
- US Masculinities - 20 credits

How to apply

29Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
Q323
Institution code:
P80
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3

This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.
Cambridge English AdvancedCambridge English: Advanced (CAE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Cambridge English ProficiencyCambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
PTE Academic62An overall score of 62 with a minimum of 59 in each skill.
TOEFL (iBT)7979 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing.
Trinity ISEPassTrinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components.

Student Outcomes

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

EU £9535 Year 1
England £9535 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9535 Year 1
Scotland £9535 Year 1
Wales £9535 Year 1
Channel Islands £9535 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9535 Year 1
International £17200 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship Placement Year and Year abroad (at the time of publishing for 2025/26): UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £1,430 EU – £1,430 International (Non-EU) – £2,875. Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice. Please check the course page on our website for the most up to date fee information All fees are subject to annual increase. For more information about fees, go to port.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/undergraduate-fees-and-student-finance/tuition-fees-living-costs-and-other-study-costs
English and History at University of Portsmouth - UCAS