History and English: University of Oxford

What is History and English?

A joint degree in History and English requires students to think critically about how we define ‘history’ and ‘literature’, and about how the two disciplines interrelate and, in large measure, overlap. Close attention is given to changing methodologies, to the nature of evidence and to styles of argument.

It is assumed that historical documents are just as much ‘texts’ as are poems, plays or novels, and are therefore subject to intepretation as works of narrative, rhetoric and, fundamentally, language. Equally, it is assumed that poems, plays and novels represent historically grounded ways of interpreting a culture.

History and English at Oxford

The History and English Faculties are the largest in Britain, with long and distinguished traditions of teaching and research.

Students are offered a great deal of choice in the course of their three years, and whether their interests are in the medieval period, the Renaissance or the later periods, intellectually fruitful combinations are always possible.

For more information contact:

Faculty of History

• Address:George Street
  Oxford
  OX1 2RL
  United Kingdom
• Tel: +44 1865 615000
• Fax: +44 1865 250704
• Email: graduate.office@history.ox.ac.uk
• Website: http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/

English Faculty

• Address: St Cross Building
  Manor Road
  Oxford OX1 3UQ
• Tel: +44 (0) 1865271055
• Email: English.office@ell.ox.ac.uk
• Website: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/