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History Futures and Careers

'History Futures' is our career programme for undergraduates and postgraduates. We organise skills workshops, presentations, alumni panels, networking opportunities and careers fairs.

UCL History Graduate Interviews 

UCL History graduates go on to diverse and fascinating careers. Hear from our past students in the interview videos below.

Finn Dardis Green – BA History (2020)
Studying for a Masters in Management (MiM) at London Business School

Max Thomas – BA History with a year abroad (2019) 
Product manager at Record Label ‘Graduation’

Bella Webb – BA History (2018)
Editorial Associate at Vogue Business and Vogue Business and Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins

Adam McGee - BA History (2018)
Senior Media and Communications Officer at the House of Commons

Amy Lababidi – BA History (2016)
Senior Press Officer at Cancer Research UK

James Ashcroft – BA History (2015)
Management Trainee at ByteDance, the parent-company of TikTok

Ashley Cowburn – BA History (2013)
Political Correspondent at The Independent

Jaeda Edman – BA History (2011)
Product Manager at Capgemini

Joe Kolska - BA History with a European Language (2003)
Actor

Emma Jacobs – MA History (1997)
Features Writer at the Financial Times


Resources 


Below is an indicative list of some of the other fields our graduates have entered.

Careers 

  • Archivists and curators
  • Arts officers, producers and directors
  • Authors, writers and translators
  • Public relations professionals
  • Teaching and other educational professionals
  • Secondary education teaching professionals
  • Personal assistants and other secretaries
  • Business and related associate professionals
  • Journalists, newspaper and periodical editors
  • Library clerks and assistants
  • Officers of non-governmental organisations
  • Estate agents and auctioneers
  • Conservation professionals
  • Human resources and industrial relations officers
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • Artists
  • Programmers and software development professionals
  • Researchers
  • Senior professionals of educational establishments
  • Welfare and housing associate professionals
  • Actors, entertainers and presenters
  • Chartered and certified accountants
  • Marketing associate professionals
  • Youth and community workers

Further Study 

  • GDL (Graduate Diploma in Law)
  • MA Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  • MSc Management
  • Teach First: Postgraduate Certificate in Education
  • MSc Security Studies
  • MSc Social Anthropology
  • MSt in British and European history
  • MSt US History
  • PGCE General Primary
  • PGCE Primary Teaching (Science)
  • PGCE Secondary Teaching (English and History)
  • Primary PGCE (full-time specialist mathematics route)
  • MA Museum Studies
  • MA Newspaper Journalism
  • MA Post-Colonial Culture and Global Policy
  • MA War Studies
  • MA in International Public Management
  • MBBS Medicine
  • MPhil American History
  • MPhil Assyriology
  • Msc Contemporary Chinese Studies
  • MSc International Public Policy
  • Dual Degree MA/MSc in International and Global History
  • MA Ancient History
  • MA British and European History from 1500
  • MA Digital Humanities
  • MA History
  • MA in Contemporary Ethics