Career as History
You should study history if you wish to learn how and why the world and its peoples came to be as they are today. History asks "How did things get to be this way?" There is nothing in the world that does not become more intriguing and far more mysterious - once we recognize the complicated events and causes that led to its creation. At the same time, history also recognizes that there is far more to the past than the events that created the world we know today. As the British writer L. P. Hartley once famously remarked, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." Recognizing what we share with people in the past, while simultaneously exploring how profoundly their lives differed from our own, provides some of history's most fascinating insights. History revels in exploring the diversity of the human experience: how profoundly people have differed in their ideas and institutions and cultural practices, how widely their experiences have varied by period and nationality and social circumstances, how much they have struggled with each other while inhabiting a shared world. History seeks to understand past lives and societies by exploring every conceivable aspect of their reality. It takes as its field of study the entire human experience in all times and places, but does so in ways that pay very close attention to the fine-grained particularities of, and differences among, those times and places.
Job Profile
- Gather historical data from various sources, including archives, books, and artifacts
- Analyze and interpret historical information to determine its authenticity and significance
- Trace historical developments in a particular field
- Engage with the public through educational programs and presentations
- Archive or preserve materials and artifacts in museums, visitor centers, and historic sites
- Provide advice or guidance on historical topics and preservation issues
- Write reports, articles, and books on findings and theories
Skills required
- An ability for clear expression both oral and written
- Putting forward ideas and arguments in a concise manner
- Gathering, investigating and assessing material
- Condensing facts, ideas and arguments
- Basing conclusions on research
- Synthesizing ideas
- Organizing material in a logical and coherent way
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- Archaeologist
- Historical researcher
- Museum work
- Secondary school teacher
- Tour guide
- University lecturer
- Civil Service
- Insurance and Ri
- Intelligence work
- Law
- Library and Information wo
- Publishing
- Archivist
Earnings
- $54530 per annum
Recruiting Companies
- Being Human
- AHRDO
How do I get there?
Pathway Courses
Where to study?
- Accadis Business School Bad Homburg
- Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt
- Andrews University
- Aston University
- Auckland University of Technology
- Bard College
- Brandeis University
- Clemson University
- Colorado School of Mines
- Creighton University
- Daugavpils University
- De Montfort University
- DePauw University
- Edge Hill University
- Emporia State University
- EOTVOS LOROND UNIVERSITY
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Florida International University
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Gonzaga University
- Grand Valley State University
- Holland International Study Centre
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- James Cook University
- Keele University
- Kingston University
- Klaipeda State College
- kristianstad university Sweden
- La Roche University
- Lancaster University
- Liverpool John Moores University
- London Metropolitan University
- Manchester University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Miami University
- Morehead state University
- National College of Ireland
- Principia College
- Purdue University
- Rider University
- Riga International School of Business and Administration
- Robert Gordon University (ICRGU)
- Royal Holloway
- Ryerson University
- Sacred heart university
- Seton Hall University
- Shoreline Community College
- Slippery Rock University
- Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
- Swansea University
- The University of British Columbia
- The University of Sheffield
- The University of Sydney
- The University of Texas
- The University of Western Australia
- Tilburg University
- Towson University
- University of Birmingham
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Canterbury
- University of Central Lancashire
- University of Connecticut
- University of Delaware
- University of Derby
- University of East Anglia
- University of Essex
- University of Helsinki
- University of Hertfordshire
- University of Huddersfield
- University of Iowa
- University of Kent
- University of Kentucky
- University of Latvia
- University of Leeds
- University of Lincoln
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
- University of North Carolina
- University of Otago
- University of Porto
- University of Portsmouth
- UNIVERSITY OF REZEKNE
- University of Rhode Island
- University of Rochester
- University of Silesia
- University of South Wales
- University of Strathclyde
- University of Surrey
- University of Warwick
- University of Westminster
- Uppsala University
- Vanderbilt University
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- York University