One of the questions we often get asked by new history students is: 'what should I read to prepare?' The answer to this is pretty simple: just read whatever history interests you! You don't have to do any preparatory reading before the course starts and we don't expect you to come having learnt it all already.
However, if you are very keen and would like to do some preparation, then we'll be adding some suggestions here for 2026-7 starters shortly.