History & English

Number of places at Balliol

1-2

Subject information

Please see the Faculty of History website, the Faculty of English website, and the course page on the undergraduate admissions website.

Course requirements

Please see the entrance requirements on the undergraduate admissions website.

College requirements

None specific to Balliol.

Admissions/Selection criteria

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

History & English at Balliol

Balliol is one of the few colleges offering this degree, and has an outstanding reputation for English and History. Numbers are small, and you get a lot of choice and individual help in putting your course together.

Tutors

Seamus Perry has published widely on Romantic poetry, especially Coleridge and Wordsworth, and he has also written about Tennyson, T.S. Eliot, Auden, and other later writers.

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.

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

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.