History

100% of our History students were in employment or further study 15 months after finishing their course.
(Graduate Outcomes Survey 2025)

Explore the past to shape your future with our BA (Hons) History at Canterbury Christ Church University. If you're looking for a course that spans centuries of history, this degree offers you the chance to delve into the people, ideas, conflicts, and movements that have shaped the world.

What you’ll learn

• Become an historian as you immerse yourself in deep layers of history that spans Europe and afar.

• Uncover hidden histories from diverse cultures, voices, and time periods.

• Apply history across a range of industries, careers, institutions, and settings.

• Explore history beyond the classroom: in archives, theatres, virtual worlds, museums, and at historic sites.

• Study in a UNESCO world heritage site and explore some of the country’s most treasured monuments including Augustine’s Abbey and the country’s oldest continually consecrated church, St Martin’s.

Studying History at CCCU will show you how the world has been shaped by history. You’ll make connections between the past and present as you perfect your craft as an historian through critical interrogation and application in practice.

Upon graduation, you’ll have a portfolio of your best work to showcase to employers, setting you up for success in creative and heritage industries, education, business, politics, and more. At Canterbury you don’t just study history - you live it, and you make it.