History enables us to understand how the world has developed and become what it is today. Studying events and issues from the past also affects the way we see the present and future. A joint degree in history and economics provides a rare opportunity formally to study these two disciplines together. While economics is concerned with the mechanisms and incentives affecting resource allocation, history adds its concerns with wider political and other forms and sources of change. History provides specific insights into why change occurs when it does and it emphases the differing contexts in which ideas emerge and in which they are used. This degree will provide you with an opportunity to develop both your qualitative and quantitative analytical skills, to combine the conceptual and mathematical approaches of economics with the contextual and archival approaches of history.