
Welcome to the BA (Hons) History taster site! We hope that you will find this course as enjoyable and stimulating as we do. As historians with a really wide range of interests and expertise across a wide array of historical periods and places, the history team at ARU believe that our BA in History offers something genuinely different, engaging, and exciting. Our students think so too: in the most recent National Student Survey we scored 95.24% for overall satisfaction with the degree! Our students come from many different cultures and backgrounds and the small scale of our teaching groups allows us to provide for a student experience based around your individual motivations and ambitions. Out of this experience you will develop a broad and deep understanding of the past, how historians work, and the way in which history informs our lives today. We can't wait to welcome you to ARU and start your journey into history. In the meantime, there are some resources below that introduce the history team, offer some preparation tips, and introduce you to some of the modules, styles of teaching, and ideas that you will encounter in your first trimester here at ARU. Looking forward to seeing you soon, The History Team at ARU.
Welcome! A wonderfully smiley group of historians who are looking forward to welcoming you to ARU! We're a nice bunch of people.	Readings and preparation? Six of the most recent books published by historians here at ARU (don't worry, you won't need to read them all before you start!).
You can watch a lovely, warm, fuzzy, welcome video from the History team here.	What to read before you start? Find out some answers to that question here.
Your first term of modules at ARU! Henry VIII for 'Uniting the Kingdoms'; an advert for Sir Hans Sloane's milk chocolate represents 'Global Histories'; and Dr Sean Lang at Cambridge 105 and a poster advertising recent Suffrage celebrations in Cambridge represent 'Creating the Past'.	A sample lecture. Here is an image of parliament in 1690 - as it became the dominant force in English, soon British, politics. But how did get here? Watch the lecture below to find out how parliament won out against the crown in the struggle for supremacy.
Find out more about your first Trimester at ARU here.	Click here for a sample lecture to listen to.