History and English Literature, BA (Hons)

Explore the richness of English literature alongside the rich history and variety of human experience. Study people, politics, and revolution – finding out how people struggled for power in past societies – and the culture and concepts those societies developed.Discover a thousand years of history, from the Crusades to Cold War Berlin and from Medieval Magic to the Rwanda Crisis. In English, you will read more of authors and genres that you may already know (from tragedy to Gothic, from Shakespeare and Dickens to Plath and Beckett), and encounter aspects of literary studies that may be less familiar to you, from children’s literature to publishing studies and the history of the book.For more information, please visit the programme page: https://www.reading.ac.uk/ready-to-study/study/subject-area/history-ug/ba-history-and-english-literature.