- Politics and history are closely interconnected. For if politics is about power, then history records the struggle for power over time; and if politics is about our public values, then history records how these values have been forged.
- Students will study Politics and History under academic staff who are experts in their field, on a small and friendly course.
- This course allows students to engage with history topics ranging from the 16th Century to the present day, giving them the foundations to understand and contextualize the political concepts that they will study on the course.
- Students will also learn the democratic principles of liberalism, of the socialist challenge to liberal ideas, and some of the darker political events of the recent past including the Soviet gulags and the Nazi genocide; as well as engaging with current events in British and American politics and the global war on terror.