This makes me so excited to study history at uni next year (it's also pretty motivating to get off youtube and revise for A Level history)

Don't know if you knew but I went to the History talk at Birmingham's open day and one professor showed this video

What a lovely video this was! I can only hope I will be as excited and happy to look back at my uni years when I graduate! (plus all of the modules you mentioned sound crazy exciting, I'm a bit jealous)

This helped a lot, and the way you and Ellie explain things is extremely helpful and easy to understand!

This was so insightful! I've been torn between English, History, or Classical Studies as my major recently, so this was really lovely to watch. It's helped! And you two are so passionate about what you're learning, I love it c:

This video has helped me so much! History has become my passion not only in school but in my everyday life. People have always dissuaded me from studying history further but this video has made me confident about my decision. Thank you guys so much, it's such a great feeling knowing that there are other people out there that enjoy history and learning so much! Xxx

It is so true. Sitting down with your lecturer and bringing up a topic, they blow your mind and you come out in a sort of daze.

Birmingham have started showing this video on there open day history talk! It was really funny

It's so fascinating hearing about how other countries universities teach history. I found that I had the most wonderful time learning world history because my professor was an amazing lecturer. He really made history entertaining, all I ever did was take notes, and I always aced every test because the stories just stuck in my head.

I studied History (World Wars specifically) in college and now I'm going to teach History in High School. This video nailed my experience. I loved it so much! I'm so glad you made this video. Absolutely loved it. I think a lot of people think History is boring and facts but it really isn't! Its about analyzing and critically thinking about a situation and understanding what was going on and how it affected the world and how it is still impacting us. I'm so glad you shared that with your viewers!

Hannah, I LOVE your museum tangent/thoughts! That is definitely me when I go to museums too!

The passion you guys have is inspiring. Yall make history sound so interesting, i'm sad that i am taking engineering :(

I'm doing a BA History at the University of Essex at the moment, and I love it so much! So stimulating!

Amazing video! I'm also studying history but currently in a public university in south Brazil. There's a great diversity of themes here that i am really into, way beyond traditional ones. Hope the best for both of you !

Yay for Hannahs who are history majors! I got one 7 years ago and even still I use the tools I got from that every day. I feel like history majors really know how to research well and how to critically think.

this has made me even more excited to start studying history this september (and now even more motivation for me to finish revision for the final a level!)

Could you make a video recommending historical books you liked either when you were at University or have read since then?

History has always been my passion so I can't wait to go to uni and study it

You are possibly the most interesting youtuber ! (: I loved this video, I'm currently doing a university paper on Theology and this is so relatable ! I love this kind of world perspective chats and I'd love to hear more about all the interesting things you've learnt

This video is BRILLIANT and SO helpful!! Thank you so much! I mean I already knew that I wanted to study history but NOW! Haha I'm definitely gonna do it. Love you.

Even though i don't want to study history this was so interesting for like the other things about university and the things that apply to many courses, and you made history sound quite interesting!!

"MUST LEARN!" lol This was so interesting and entertaining to watch! As a high school senior (graduation is next week), I love that you touched on study skills and the different thinking used in some of the courses you took! Btw The Little Mermaid reference was genius and I understand what "post modern" means now that you used it!

You're both exceptionally eloquent. I don't think I'm going to be all that good at explaining myself at University. One of many fears.

Coming to this video 5 years later but I’m about to study history at Bristol and this has made me really excited ! Thankyou!

This is so useful! I'm applying to study history at uni this September, thanks for the help! x

Hannah, if you're interested in museum arrangement, you might want to check out the work of the artist Fred Wilson! He's done some really fascinating work regarding how museum arrangement affects how pieces are perceived. Check out his Mining the Museum exhibition, I think you would like it. He's got a really cool segment from PBS too, here: www.pbs.org/art21/artists/fred-wilson

THIS IS REALLY RELEVANT TO MY LIFE THANK YOU THANK THE HEAVens

Medieval history: where 50% of women are called Matilda

This was really useful! Have been considering what I should take at University, and its great to have some idea of what the courses are like!

Massive love for the Cadbury Research Library! I'm a second year languages student and I did a module in medieval Spanish literature in first semester and we got the chance to go there and touch the manuscripts. It was amazing, and so weird to hold something that's 700 years old in your hands!

I'm off to study history at university in September and this was a perfect motivation boost to help get me through exams and remind me why I love it :) so thank you haha xxx

great video. I find the glimpses you give us very interesting and I was wondering whether you could go a little more into detail in another video or two

Studying history in America is so different! Very interesting to learn about it.

Just about to start year two, after the first year, I'm so glad I decided to study it!

LOVED LOVED LOOOOOOVED this video!! Thanks :D

This video was very interesting to me. I am a second year archaeology student and a couple of things you said can be reflected on my time here studying. Thank you :)

This was so entertaining/informative !!!

Can you please do more videos about your uni experience ? Really enjoyed this! :)

Pleaseee do a University series!!💕

I've always loved studying history, but now I feel so inspired to study it in uni! There's so much I want to study ahhhhh

I watch your videos instead of learning for my final English test at high school (the Netherlands) and I really think you actually do help me improving my English haha!

Ellie is awesome! I hope to see more of her! :D

You made studying history so interesting!

I loved the video. I have a history degree, but here in Brazil is the course is totally different! Very good to know how it works in other countries. Xoxo

I just came home from school because I was working with my tutor about my disertation and I still have to do some research for tomorrow. So I wanted to relax a little and I saw your video and now my brain is all like "YEESSS!!! LEARNING!!!"

I'm just about to finish my 2nd year of studying history at York and I can confirm that this video is 100% true. Really enjoyed it!

are you planning on making a video on revision (at uni or just revision in general)? because that would be AWESOME and really needed (im pathetic at it)

This was brilliant as I just got an unconditional to study history!!

History is always fascinating.

"Yesterday was history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift...that is why it is called the present". Words to live by. Keep up the good videos Hannah!

This was so helpful thank you!!!

You just blew my mind with the Hadrian's Wall and Scotland comparison to the Wall and the wildlings, i CANNOT

Thanks for making this Hannah & Ellie! Good timing, one week before this year's History in Theory & Practice students sit the exam. Sorry to have made you 'curl up in a ball and cry for about seven days'. I do miss the ridiculous parallels (like mermaid/postmodernism) and do still tell students about Ellie's revelation that enlightenment/romanticism = star trek/star wars.

I loved this. Having the body language of friendship illustrated is super useful.

As a History and Politics student nearly finishing my second year, I related to so much in this video :P

This has well and truly ended my "should I study History for A Level?" crisis that I've been having; thank you this was super interesting and I am very excited about everything now

I wish more videos like this were made, it's helpful for us at sixth form/college

OMG 10:20 the idea with the word document, I finished Uni in 2014 and wish I'd thought of that!

This video made me warmly nostalgic and gave me PTSD flashbacks simultaneously.

so exciting!

I studied history at uni as well and really loved it. A lot of people comment on the fact that it is not really a degree that gets you anywhere, but I studied it for me, because I wanted to do something that I enjoyed rather than thinking about what job I might get at the end of it. Some might see that as a waste or whatever, but I'm really happy that I chose something that made me happy!

I finish my English degree next week and now I regret it all. ALL OF IT. Yours sounded ace.

Thank you for this!! I'm so excited to start my degree, the worst part is trying to explain to people that yes, I will be able to get a job after this and no I am not wasting my life. Great video!

Ooh I didn't know you went to Birmingham! I live there but hoping to get my grades to go to Manchester in September, really enjoyed the video as always Hannah :) got to stop procrastinating now haha

So helpful, thank you!!xx

This has made me so excited to start my history degree

I'm starting uni in September and I'm studying philosophy, classics, and history of art, but I was considering doing history, and every teacher or professor I spoke to gave me crap information, this video was so helpful!

I couldn't take the eyes off the chocolate frog on your shelf. It's in the exact same spot on my exact same Ikea structure that mine is. YAY FOR HUFFLEPUFFS.

OMG Hannah, in that case you'ld defenetly come to Mexico, to the National Museum of Anthropology, you're loving it, is traveling to the past, so amazing.

im in my final year at Uni , majoring in History and civilizations .basically we learn every civilizations in this world but after I watched your video I just found out that history is more than learning about the people of the past ,like Hannah is studying about Sexual history that's awesome and I really want to know more about that ,btw I love your video ,sending hugs from Malaysia :)

I kind of have this dream af going to University in the uk, and this has really made me want to study history. Especially your point at 4:00 - 4:06 I can really relate to, I do that all the time. Just the other day I found a connection between a Tintin villain, the Assasins Creed video game, and Calico Jack (a pirate in...idk pirate times) That almost made my head explode :D

Ellie needs a KZfaq channel!!!

God this sounds so interesting!

I’m currently in second year in uni studying history and I was wondering if you could do a video on how you coped/dealt with your dissertation, how it came to picking your topic and how you went around doing it

ugh i love history i'm so glad i made the switch from political science to history, of which the former i pursued simply because it seemed that opportunities will be better with it

Ditto everything in this vid, just finishing off my degree in Modern World History. Highly recommend it! Prepare to question everything you already know! :)

In America, college and university are pretty interchangeable when talking about just the general post-secondary education system. The individual schools also have varying names (i.e. Boston College vs Boston University when both provide the same level of education). The only confusion comes when talking about college to people from Britain/India/etc. when there it means the two years of schooling post-secondary from ages 16-18

I loved studying history in uni! I hated the first year. The (whole) world history exam scared me so much! I think my favorite courses were The Viking Era, Arthurian Legend and Women History! A weird jumble, but loved it! xx

I learnt more from this one video than i have in my first 2 terms at uni.

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Very informative video =) and also .... thanks to the Doctor for this fantastic definition of time :))

I've accepted my offer to study history at Birmingham this September! This video is literally perfect for me!

So good! :)

I'm doing history at Leeds uni right now and it's really great, I'm also looking at doing my dissertation on China/India and Orientalism. I just did a module on sati on India and if you haven't looked into it I'd really recommend it, there's a lot of interesting intersection between imperialism, Orientalism, evangelicalism, Hinduism, Victorian protofeminism and feminism :)

This was super interesting as I almost studied History at Uni but chose Art School instead! I would love to know more about what you can take into later life from a history degree, eg what job does your friend do/ your other course-mates? xx

My sister did history with you ! Emily Howells ! :* love your channel

THIS IS SO INTERESTING I WANT TO TAKE HISTORY NOW

This was pretty cool.

I had an offer to do History and Spanish at Birmingham but I picked Newcastle instead because I heard that the course at Birmingham was very literature-based which ain't really ma thang. This video is so interesting and helpful though, thank you!!

I can't wait to go to university and study history😍

Oh my goodness I want that Tudors class! O_O We didn't have that kind of option in my history department.

I've only been to the uni of birmingham on trips for english masterclasses and stuff (besides that one time it hosted an acorns dance competition fundraiser and my troupe was totally awesome) and even I have never walked under the clock tower. I'm going to study art in london but I'm so paranoid it's unreal.

OMG, that fork analogy is actually really good. I remember when I was doing Higher Religious moral and philosophical studies we spent a whole lesson debating what truth was, longest hour of my life.......

Do you remember what you wrote for your personal statements?? Like how many books did you read etc?? Thanks!

I studied History at the University of Hull. Best experience of my life. The course was great and the university was wonderful. Would recommend thoroughly. Wrote my dissertation on slavery in the Cherokee Nation in the 19th century.

Would you ever consider making an everyday makeup tutorial? You are so pretty :)

This really makes me want to do history even though I'm currently freaking out about getting a good gcse in it and if I'll take it for A level or not

Got a notification for this video, while studying for my history A level 😀

As someone who is currently studying computer science at the university of Birmingham I feel i must stress that if you are going to do any sort of Engineering or science degree that you must be prepared to work you arse off if you want a good grade. Even in first year. also be prepared to be so stressed when exams come around that you have a bit of a break down. I recommend you take up running or something (trust me it helps. You can literally run away from your problems then). The university is amazing though and they're building loads of new stuff at the moment. It's going to be amazing.

Thank you for the video. I know it's been a few years. I'm really scared and indecisive about post-secondary options because even though I love history, will it be beneficially for me? People are also saying a history degree is useless in obtaining a financially-secure job but I think I just have to go for it. Debt or no debt, I don't want regrets, as naive as that sounds.