Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom

History

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: humanities
Qualification: BA
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
  • The opportunity to study a broad range of themes - political, social and cultural - from around 400AD to the present day
  • Teaching by eminent and accessible scholars with wide-ranging and internationally recognised expertise
  • An exciting and challenging programme offering a balance between deepening historical knowledge and developing transferable skills and groupwork
  • An opportunity to study abroad in the second year and carry out work- or school-based research placements
  • Assessment not just by traditional exams and coursework essays but also a personal project in the second year and the opportunity to undertake an independently researched final-year dissertation
  • The opportunity to develop intellectual skills, such as effective reading, note taking and the interpretation and comparison of information from a broad range of sources and the ability to construct an historical argument and to present this coherently and elegantly with the appropriate supporting evidence
University website: www.keele.ac.uk
History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Scholars who write about history are called historians.
History
The great historian John Hope Franklin, who helped to get this museum started, once said, “Good history is a good foundation for a better present and future.” He understood the best history doesn’t just sit behind a glass case; it helps us to understand what’s outside the case. The best history helps us recognize the mistakes that we’ve made and the dark corners of the human spirit that we need to guard against. And, yes, a clear-eyed view of history can make us uncomfortable, and shake us out of familiar narratives. But it is precisely because of that discomfort that we learn and grow and harness our collective power to make this nation more perfect.
Barack Obama, Remarks by the President at the Dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (24 September 2016)
History
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, Pt. I, Ch. 5 (1913)
History
What want these outlaws conquerors should have
But History's purchased page to call them great?
Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 48.
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