This exciting joint Honours degree allows you to study a range of subjects from our highly regarded History and Politics and International Relations courses, together with creative new papers which explore overlaps between the two disciplines. This new course balances a strong grounding in the two component subjects with the chance to explore the ways in which historical and political understanding together illuminate the modern world. The course provides the opportunity to undertake intensive study in political science, the history of political thought, a wide variety of modern British, European, American and world history, conceptual issues in political science, and quantitative methods.