History and Economics

Number of Places at Balliol

Usually one or two, but there is no maximum quota.

Subject Information

Please see the course page on the History Faculty website.

See also, more generally, the History Faculty website, and the Department of Economics website.

Course requirements

Please see the entrance requirements on the undergraduate admissions website.

Admissions/Selection Criteria

For information on how applicants are assessed, see the Faculty of History website.

History and Economics at Balliol

History and Economics is a thriving undergraduate degree at Balliol which draws on a range of expertise within the College and the University. Tutors encourage students to explore the many linkages between the two subjects.

Tutors

Lesley Abrams teaches early medieval history and has published on political, cultural, and social aspects of the Viking Age, as well as more general studies of conversion to Christianity.

Martin Conway teaches European and world History of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and has published on themes of inter-war fascism, collaboration, and the re-establishment of democracy in Europe after 1945.

Simon Skinner teaches modern British history, and has published on politics and religion in early Victorian Britain.

Professor David Vines teaches macroeconomics and has research interests in international macroeconomics.

Dr James Forder has research interests in the relations between economics and politics.