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Make your breakthrough in History

Be the designer of your future and tailor your studies with our huge range of modules from the medieval to the present day, encompassing different geographical regions and a wide variety of themes and approaches.
 
  • Apply by the UCAS deadline on Wednesday 29 January 2025.
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TopLondon Russell Group University for teaching on the course

(National Student Survey 2024)

2ndRussell Group University for learning opportunities

(National Student Survey 2024)

7thin the UK for History Research Quality

(Complete University Guide League table 2025)

Top reasons to study History at Queen Mary

  1. You can choose from an extraordinary range of over 70 modules, allowing you to tailor your degree to your interests and passions.
  2. From the day you join the School of History, you’ll get one-to-one supervision in the shape of an academic adviser and this support will remain with you through until your final year dissertation.
  3. You'll experience the real benefits of studying history in London. Key historical sites, museums and archives are just a short tube journey away. Our social groups regularly invite speakers to campus, or run trips to historical sites across London.

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On-Demand Open Day

You can now experience our on-demand Open Day anytime — whenever it suits you!
On-Demand Open Day

£3,000 Global Talent Scholarships

We are delighted to offer £3,000 scholarships to highly qualified international offer holders joining Queen Mary in September 2025.
£3,000 Global Talent Scholarships

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360° tours

ArtsTwo is a distinctive and bright space. Clad in glass panels with digitally printed artwork by the artist Jacqueline Poncelet, it contains teaching and study spaces used by a range of Schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. 

360° tour

Our students say...

 

Studying History and Politics has changed my life and expanded my horizons personally and professionally. Aside from being challenging, interesting, and compelling, my degree is relevant and applicable to every facet of my life and of those around me.
— Valentina Kalanyos, History and Politics (2024)
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