English and History, BA (Hons)

94% of our English Language and Literature research was rated world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021). We ranked 4th in the UK for History research impact (Times Higher Education, REF 2021).Explore how literature and history shape culture and society through our bold curriculum spanning a thousand years of literature. Taught by expert literary scholars and historians, you will develop critical and creative responses, experiment with writing, and engage with tutors linked to creative industries and events like the Placeholder poetry series and The Coast is Queer festival. Access special collections at The Keep archive next to campus, including Virginia Woolf and Rudyard Kipling papers and the Mass Observation Archive. On our innovative Sussex campus—edged by the South Downs National Park, near Brighton & Hove, Gatwick Airport, and an hour from London—we stimulate discovery and global impact.