On completion of your MA in Public History at Royal Holloway you will be equipped to pursue a career in the world of museums, archives and heritage sites, in broadcasting, film or TV, with community organisations or in journalism. You will also have started to develop a valuable network of contacts, something we will help you to expand with ongoing networking and professional development opportunities. Our Careers team will also help prepare you for the choices ahead, with tailored CV and interview preparation and access to a wide range of events. Their support does not end when you graduate; you can access the service for up to two years after graduation.
Our graduates are highly employable and, in recent years, have gone on to pursue a variety of interesting careers with the BBC, Historic Royal Palaces, the Imperial War Museum, the Houses of Parliament, the National Archives, and as engagement officers, curators, and historians with a variety of public history institutions and heritage sites. The MA also equips you with a solid foundation for continuing your studies with a public history PhD, including Royal Holloway’s innovative PhDs by Practice in Public History.
Home (UK) students tuition fee per year*: £12,500
EU and international students tuition fee per year**: £24,000
Other essential costs***: Please note that the Pathways to the Past module is taught at Bedford Square or Senate House (London campus), and so you will need to budget for travel to London once per week if you are living in the Egham area (the latest rail fares for a return ticket from Egham to London Waterloo can be found on the South West Trains website).
How do I pay for it? Find out more about funding options, including loans, grants, scholarships and bursaries.
and ** These tuition fees apply to students starting their course on a full-time basis in the academic year 2027/28. Students studying on the standard part-time course structure over two years are charged 50% of the full-time applicable fee for each study year.
Royal Holloway reserves the right to increase all postgraduate tuition fees annually. For further information, see fees and funding.
Royal Holloway's MA in Public History is the longest-running and most well-established programme of its kind in the United Kingdom. The module attracts applicants from across the world and Royal Holloway is one of the leading centres for public history in Europe. The wider Department of History, which forms part of Royal Holloway's School of Humanities, is also one of the most innovative, diverse and widely recognised departments in the country. Our faculty members regularly appear on television, radio and in the popular print media. Other staff are engaged in community-based projects and research that make important contributions to policy development and national debates. This module offers a unique qualification for those wishing to pursue a career in public history, working in the heritage sector, in broadcasting or in film, in museum or in journalism. Through a variety of highly engaging modules, students are trained in the professional skills of historical interpretation and communication and provided with opportunities to meet leading practitioners in the field, popular historians, museum curators, public archivists, publishers and TV and radio producers. The MA thus provides an engaging combination of practical and theoretical learning for historians who are keen to communicate with a wide public audience and offers students a unique gateway to the heritage sector and to the world of popular media, We offer a wide range of postgraduate scholarships to help with funding your studies.
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