Study a Bachelor of Arts in History at King's

Modern-day conflicts, ideas, and assumptions about the world all started somewhere. Historians work to understand our civilizations by empathizing with the depth and complexity of past human experiences, all the while becoming more sensitive to the nature of cultural formation.

Inside this program

Feed Your Historical Imagination

How did it feel to live in London during the darkest days of WWII? What was it like for Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America to encounter each other for the first time? Engage with incredible stories of how humans lived, fought, and thought in times and places very different from our own.

Explore A World Full Of History

Choose from courses in British, European, North American, Russian, and world history. Learn different ways of doing history and ask deeper questions about how and why we study world events.

Engage With the Past

So many lessons can be learned from the lives of those who came before us. As a history major, you'll develop your historical perspective in lively classroom discussions and take initiative on your own research projects using primary sources. 

Research Profiles

Sandle, Mark, and William Van Arragon. "Re-forming History." Cascade Books, 2019.

Does the discipline of history need a reformation? How should Christian faith shape the ways historians do their work? This book, written for students, considers the “how” of doing history.

Sandle, Mark. "Communism." 1st ed., Routledge, 2006.

Why did communism grow so quickly? Why did it spread to turn almost half of the world red by the mid-1970s? What impact did it have upon capitalism and capitalist society?

Sandle, Mark. "Gorbachev: Man of the Twentieth Century?" Bloomsbury Academic, 2008.

This new study draws upon a wide variety of sources East and West, textual and visual, newspaper and memoir, academic and popular to try and understand the reasons why Gorbachev remains such an enigmatic figure.

Next Steps

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