Students on the steps at the British Museum Last week as part of our Welcome Week activities at the University of Northampton, we ran a free trip to the British Museum. A lot of our new students joined us, along with a few returning students who fancied a day out in London! Given this involved […]
March 2025
James Boswell Under ‘Lockdown’ in Eighteenth Century London
Recently reading James Boswell’s London Journal I came across a period when due to Gonorrhoea, Boswell decided to isolate himself from the rest of the world and society at large apart from a few select individuals who were permitted to see him. Boswell is most famous for his work as a diarist and biographer. His […]



Undergraduate Studies: BA History
Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com We are proud to offer an exciting broad undergraduate BA programme in History at the University of Northampton. From medieval knights and early modern servants, to country houses, hospitals and asylums, through to the trenches of the First World War and beyond, you can explore a thousand years of history from […]