Let’s start with the bottom line: jobs and careers. What can you do with a history degree? The answer is, quite simply: ‘Anything’.
This isn’t because an in-depth knowledge of Elizabethan foreign policies, medieval European marriage law or nationalist movements in Africa is required in many workplaces. It’s because 80% of the UK’s economy is in the service sector: law, finance, marketing, business administration, and so on. To excel in these environments requires skills in precisely those areas in which a rigorous history degree provides training and demonstrates attainment: the analysis of evidence or data, communication (both written and spoken), independence of mind, and maybe above all, dealing with real-world complexity, not just neat disciplinary models.
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